{"id":188163,"date":"2026-02-22T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188163\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:42:12","slug":"dave-roberts-makes-shohei-ohtani-announcement-before-angels-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188163\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Roberts Makes Shohei Ohtani Announcement Before Angels Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are heading into the upcoming season looking to win a third straight World Series title, and there is a genuine belief around the league that this year\u2019s roster might be even better than the last two. <\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Dodgers address their biggest weaknesses by adding closer <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/edwin-diaz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Diaz<\/a> to stabilize the ninth inning and outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/kyle-tucker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Tucker<\/a> to fill the corner outfield spot, but 2026 will also mark the first time two\u2011way superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/shohei-ohtani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will be at full strength as a member of the organization. <\/p>\n<p>Ohtani returned to the mound last year, but he never carried a full starter\u2019s workload. The 31\u2011year\u2011old made 14 starts, posted a 2.87 ERA and struck out 62 batters, but he threw only 47 innings. This year, there is a real chance he triples that total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading into the upcoming season looking to win a third straight World Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-188163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}