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Shohei Ohtani<\/a> continues to be one of the most fascinating players in baseball, but is there cause for concern? The guys analyze his recent pitching performance and dig into the narrative that his hitting dips when he\u2019s on the mound. Is this just small sample size noise, or something teams should actually be paying attention to?<\/p>\n To wrap things up, it\u2019s time for some early-season hardware. With one month in the books, Jake and Jordan hand out their picks for AL and NL MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year. Who\u2019s real, who\u2019s surprising, and who might not last? The overreactions are flying\u2014and that\u2019s exactly how we like it.<\/p>\n Timetamps:<\/p>\n (1:00) \u2013 Tarik Skubal our 2-3 months with elbow injury<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n (26:30) \u2013 Framber Valdez ejected for hitting Trevor Story<\/p>\n (35:45) \u2013 Shohei Ohtani continues to not hit when pitching<\/p>\n (45:00) \u2013 Carlos Correa<\/a> suffers major ankle injury<\/p>\n (50:30) \u2013 Early season MLB awards<\/p>\n \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f Watch this full episode on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Check out all episodes of Baseball Bar-B-Cast<\/a> and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/a> or at yahoosports.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast Tarik Skubal\u2019s season\u2014and possibly his financial future\u2014just took a major hit. The Tigers ace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[4996,64,63,30524,316310,12266,5260,166401,39882,29673,591,16088,5149,85,6100,13338,79846],"class_list":["post-654155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlos-correa","tag-cy-young","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-elbow-injury","tag-financial-future","tag-framber-valdez","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-tigers","tag-trevor-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"MLB:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bbbc050626_7505.jpg\"\/)
MLB: APR 29 Tigers at Braves ATLANTA, GA – APRIL 29: Detroit pitcher Tarik Skubal (29) rubs his pitching arm during the MLB game between the Detroit Tigers<\/a> and the Atlanta Braves<\/a> on April 29th, 2026 at Truist Park in Atlanta, GA.(Photo by Rich von Biberstein\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n