{"id":450159,"date":"2026-02-05T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450159\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:27:08","slug":"ohtani-gets-head-start-on-training-before-dodgers-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450159\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani gets head start on training before Dodgers&#8217; camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE, Arizona &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani made an early start to preseason Wednesday, training independently in preparation for the new MLB campaign and the upcoming World Baseball Classic before his club&#8217;s camp opens next week.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani played catch and took part in other workouts at the Dodgers&#8217; training facility in Glendale, Arizona, where the team will hold spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers are aiming to win Major League Baseball&#8217;s World Series for the third time in a row this season and Ohtani expressed his hope of achieving the &#8220;difficult&#8221; feat.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with NBC News through an interpreter, Ohtani said, &#8220;The task is going to be very difficult. However, I do hope that when I retire and I look back, I can say I was on that team that won three championships in a row.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani made the television appearance to promote his new children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Decoy Saves Opening Day,&#8221; released Tuesday and featuring his dog, Decoy, also known as Dekopin in Japan. Proceeds from its sales will go to animal rescue activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Arizona &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani made an early start to preseason Wednesday, training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-450159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}