{"id":578910,"date":"2026-04-03T05:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:09:28","slug":"shohei-ohtani-vladimir-guerrero-jr-land-on-list-no-mlb-star-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578910\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Land on List No MLB Star Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">There has been plenty of firepower so far this season across Major League Baseball, but not necessarily from everyone you&#8217;d expect it from.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">On Friday, Yahoo Fantasy Sports shared on X a list of players across Major League Baseball without a homer under their belt so far this season and both Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YahooFantasy\/status\/2039743084322533733\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">popped up on the list, among plenty of stars. <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">&#8220;Notable players with 0 home runs this season: Shohei Ohtani, Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodriguez, Bobby Witt Jr., Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Kyle Tucker, Ronald Acuna Jr., Matt Olson, Nick Kurtz, Junior Caminero, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Rafael Devers,&#8221; the post read. <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of stars without homers<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01kn8rzextqxxxy1s285.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani\" title=\"Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani\" width=\"5052\" height=\"2841\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"6b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apr 1, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA;  Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) waits behind the cage as he takes live batting practice prior to the game against the Cleveland Guardians at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notable players with 0 home runs this season:<\/p>\n<p>Shohei Ohtani<br \/>Cal Raleigh<br \/>Julio Rodriguez<br \/>Bobby Witt Jr.<br \/>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<br \/>Kyle Tucker<br \/>Ronald Acuna Jr.<br \/>Matt Olson<br \/>Nick Kurtz<br \/>Junior Caminero<br \/>Fernando Tatis Jr.<br \/>Rafael Devers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYSHowHfxu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VYSHowHfxu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Fantasy Sports (@YahooFantasy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooFantasy\/status\/2039743084322533733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">It&#8217;s important to note that Yahoo shared the post on X on Thursday afternoon. By the time the game action wrapped up on Thursday night, both Rafael Devers and Matt Olson blasted their first homers of the season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">The two biggest stories here from an MLB perspective certainly are Ohtani and Guerrero. Ohtani hasn&#8217;t found his footing yet offensively and has looked mortal, which is a shock in itself. Through six games, Ohtani is slashing .167\/.423\/.167 with a .590 OPS. Not his typical Herculean output, to say the least. He&#8217;s leading the league with seven walks, but is 3-for-18 on the season without an extra-base hit or RBI. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">Guerrero has been much better. He has slashed .300\/.481\/.300 with a .781 OPS. He just hasn&#8217;t been able to hit the ball out of the ballpark, yet. He has two RBIs on the season and doesn&#8217;t have an extra-base hit yet this season either in six games. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">On top of these two, the next biggest story is Cal Raleigh. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/raleica01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blasting 60 homers<\/a> last year, you&#8217;d expect to see some explosiveness out of him. Instead, he is slashing .160\/.250\/.200 and is leading the league with 15 strikeouts. He does have one double, though in seven games played. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">We&#8217;ve seen a lot of good things across the league this offseason, but this trend by some of the game&#8217;s biggest stars is on the more negative side of things. People around the league love a good home run. The fact that there are this many superstar-level players without a long ball under their belt isn&#8217;t a great sign for the state of the offense around the league. For the league&#8217;s sake, hopefully these guys all turn it around. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been plenty of firepower so far this season across Major League Baseball, but not necessarily from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}