[Pedro Martinez: Confession of the Soul]“Shohei Ohtani is a man from another planet.” The 3-time Cy Young Award-winning legend speaks with trembling words about the true greatness of his dual-wielding skills Pedro Martinez, the Dominican treasure who has been on the mound in the Major Leagues for 18 years and won the Cy Young Award 3 times. The man who dominated the era with his fastballs and intelligent pitching from his small frame now speaks with a shudder about Shohei Ohtani, saying, “Perhaps he didn’t know everything about baseball that I knew.” 🔥 As a former pitcher, you can understand just how great Shohei Otani is. There is an unspoken rule in baseball: Pitchers are pitchers, batters are batters. It takes a lifetime just to master each path. Pedro spent 18 years focusing all his energy on pitching to reach the Cy Young Award. However, Shohei Otani does not “ignore” this common sense, but “rewrites it.” He is one of the top pitchers in the league, and one of the top hitters in the league. A man who was also a pitcher speaks seriously about the abnormality of one person doing all of this at the same time. ⚾ 33 consecutive scoreless innings: “Uncommon sense is the norm” Since the end of last season, he has allowed no earned runs in 33 consecutive innings. After undergoing two Tommy John surgeries, Otani has actually come back stronger than before. Normally, if you go back to 70% of your original level, you’re doing well, but you’ve surpassed your original level. “Normally, after the second surgery, you give up on pitching. He won MVP as a hitter. He can make a living without pitching. But he still returned to the mound.” – Pedro expresses an incomprehensible respect for this tenacity. 🧠 Extradimensional thinking that simultaneously turns the pitcher’s brain and the batter’s brain. For each pitch, the pitcher’s brain is at its limit, as is the next pitch, the composition of the count, and the opponent’s weaknesses. Pedro has been doing just that for 18 years. Ohtani uses his head as both a pitcher and a batter at the same time. In between innings, he prepares the batter’s box, checks the footage of the opposing pitcher, and then goes back on the mound and throws a fastball. “I could never do it,” Pedro declares. 💥 Tunneling: A nightmare where seven types of pitches come out of the same entrance Otani’s pitch has a trick. As soon as the ball leaves the ball’s hand, the batter cannot tell the difference between a fastball, a sweeper, and a splitter. Ohtani uses seven different types of pitches to perform “tunneling,” where completely different outcomes emerge from the same entrance. Pedro, who is 180 centimeters tall and weighs 77 kilograms, has honed the “technique of instilling fear into batters” over the past 18 years, and is doing so with faster pitches, more types of pitches, and even while standing at bat. “It’s a complete upward compatibility. I feel both jealousy and respect at the same time,” Pedro says, revealing his true feelings. 🏟️ A male two-way player who single-handedly rewrites the team’s blueprint will not be counted in the 13 pitcher roster. In other words, the Dodgers can register Ohtani as a fielder while also using him as a pitcher. He is actually the 14th pitcher. Among a top-notch rotation that includes Glasnow, Snell, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Otani’s presence optimizes the team’s operations. “Normally, this kind of reform of a team’s structure would be something that a GM would spend years working on.Otani is accomplishing that as a player.”Although he is a player, he is someone who rewrites the team’s blueprint. There is a man in front of me right now who has never existed in the history of baseball. 📜 Comparisons with Babe Ruth no longer hold true Speaking of two-handed people, it’s Babe Ruth. However, in Ruth’s era, the average ball speed for pitchers was around 85 mph, and there was no data analysis. Modern baseball is a world where curve balls designed using cutting-edge science fly over 95 miles on average. Among them, Otani is aiming for the top in both pitching and hitting, and Pedro concludes, “There is no player in Ruth’s era or in our era who can match him.” 💎 Key points of this video ✅ Three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez talks about Otani’s theory from a pitcher’s perspective ✅ 33 consecutive scoreless innings and a tenacity that surpasses two Tommy John surgeries ✅ The fear of “tunneling,” throwing seven different types of pitches in the same trajectory ✅ The structure of the dual-wield player quota and its revolutionary impact on team strategy ✅ The decisive difference between the Babe Ruth era and modern baseball: During his time with the Red Sox, Pedro won the World Series with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. A top-notch pitcher and a top-notch hitter, a man who has seen both up close and yet still declares, “There was no one in particular.” That is Shohei Otani. “Ten or 20 years from now, baseball fans will look at footage from 2026 and say, “We were lucky to be alive during this time.” We are now witnesses to that. 📌 Notes (Important) This channel and each video are produced for the purpose of news, reporting, criticism, education, and entertainment. The audio, narration, and characters in the video are creative expressions machined from the operator’s own voice. The people, statements, and composition appearing in this article have been reconstructed based on publicly reported facts and comments, and do not represent the official views of the individuals themselves or the intentions of the organizations they belong to. The rights to images, videos, MLB, team names, player names, trademarks, etc. used in the video belong to their respective rightful owners. 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