I called you up, a hundred and two reaches

Sadiffle ages talking about that boy

What was that 10 unto you?

Hello and welcome to episode 953 of Effectively Wild Detaily Podcast

from Baseball Prospectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at

baseballreference.com. I'm Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer.

Joining us is by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus. Hello!

Hello! Do an email show. Anything you want to talk about before we do?

Nope. Well, today's show heo-tani update is that he broke a record.

I suppose he broke his own record for fastest pitch in NPB history.

He touched 164 kilometers per hour, which is about 102 miles per hour.

So he throws really, really hard.

Goodness gracious. Yeah. How's his bat doing?

It's doing very well. He still has a OPS over a thousand.

I don't know how it's done since the last time we gave a show to the o-tani update,

which was not long ago. But he is hitting if Baseball Reference is updated.

326 425 611 with 22 homers. Wow.

And seven steals in nine attempts. Let's see here.

He still has the best OPS in the league by about 70 points.

So, it doesn't seem like Japanese baseball has managed to continually up the hype for whoever

the next guy is in a way that sort of feels like like bubble. But like this,

this really seems untoppable. Like how do you top best hitter and best pitcher in Japan?

...