Letters to Sports: Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani go big | College News

After two video games in Japan, Shohei Ohtani is off to a great begin, with a home run and a .375 batting average, and the Dodgers solely have to pay him $2 million this season. Don’t fear about Ohtani making ends meet as a result of I requested AI how a lot Ohtani will earn from endorsements in 2025? Their reply was $100 million. The Times’ Bill Shaikin later reported the identical quantity.

Vaughn Hardenberg
Westwood

So the pro-Dodger L.A. Times is already deciding the Cy Young Award after a single pitching outing by Yoshinobu Yamamoto and two days into the Dodger season? Well, that can save us a lot of time watching Major League Baseball this yr. I presume the Dodgers have additionally already gained the World Series? On to soccer!

Henry A. Hespenheide
Hermosa Beach

After one recreation and 5 innings of one-run baseball, The Times’ Dylan Hernández has proclaimed Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto a Cy Young Award candidate “if he can keep this up.”

I used to be ready for his gushing about a potential 162-0 season for the Dodgers … however I suppose he needed to keep his expectations life like.

Steve Kaye
Oro Valley, Ariz.

To no one’s amazement, Shohei Ohtani homered triumphantly within the Tokyo Series. Of course he did. It’s solely shocking that it took him all of eight at-bats.

Steven Ross
Carmel

I’m not pretending to be a psychic or something, however $5 says quickly to be heard at Dodger Stadium would be the 1984 hit by Alphaville, “Big in Japan.”

Joe Kevany
Mount Washington