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The story
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has gone cold at the plate — now 64 plate appearances without a home run — and the drought became a hot topic on the Nanademo Jikkyo board (5ch’s sports discussion forum). Posters noted his OPS has slipped to .902 and could soon dip below .900, drawing comparisons to Munetaka Murakami (OPS .812) and Kazuma Okamoto (OPS .746), who are having similarly rough stretches. Others pushed back by pointing to his contributions on the basepaths, like stolen bases, while the long-running debate over whether regular-season or postseason stats matter more resurfaced — eventually widening into comparisons with Hideki Matsui.
What people said
he'll turn it on once the postseason starts.
When his regular-season stats are good you guys brag about it, and when they're bad it's suddenly all about the postseason. A bit convenient, don't you think?
So I guess that means 50-50 and all his other regular-season records are meaningless then?
the second they start losing
it's 'sockpuppet!' and 'samefagging!' lol
I'm just your average Ohtani hater, dude. My phone connection posted as Re: #9, and when I picked up some random free Wi-Fi on my way home that became Re: #23 — you're the real one-post nobody here.
Am I not allowed to be hyped about the qualifiers just as qualifiers? 😅
We get hyped for the regular season, and we'll get even more hyped for the postseason. That's all there is to it.
Can't exactly brag when he's useless in the postseason — the World Series especially was straight-up garbage. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is way more impressive.
That random emoji is creepy lol
Guess it really got to you, lmao
Don't use official-game at-bats as your rehab reps! 😡
Murakami: 30 HR, OPS .812
Okamoto: 29 HR, OPS .746
Ohtani's still fine, but these other two are rough.
Looks like Okamoto might even pass him in home runs at this rate.
How do you hit 30 bombs and end up with a .7 OPS?
Nobody else does it because they don't want to get hurt, that's all
it's not some amazing skill.
He was probably Ohtani's only real friend, since Ohtani can't seem to connect with people outside of that.
Matsui was clutch when it mattered most
World Series MVP, remember
Ohtani's terrible in the clutch, so he's below Matsui.
Bad at math, are we?
Enlighten me, what part of that is math?
You simply can't work out whether hitting 30 homers should get you a .7 OPS, can you?
He means that normally if you hit 30 bombs, your OPS should be way higher than that.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage) reflects a batter’s overall offensive production, and a prolonged home-run drought tends to drag the whole number down through a falling slugging percentage. The two players brought up for comparison in the thread, Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto, have also seen their OPS stagnate relative to their home run totals, so this isn’t unique to Ohtani. The thread also repeatedly referenced the 2024 case in which Ohtani’s then-personal interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, was fired by the team over his involvement in illegal gambling — but it was Mizuhara alone who faced criminal charges, and Ohtani himself was never charged with any crime. The point that split the thread was how much weight to give regular-season numbers versus past postseason performance — a recurring argument that comes up whenever a player’s form is being judged, not just in Ohtani’s case.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nanademo Jikkyo) thread “[Sad News] Shohei Ohtani Goes 64 Plate Appearances Without a Homer… OPS Looks Set to Drop Below .900 lolololololololol”.
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