Talk about being a force of nature! Shohei Ohtani does a lot of things, and he does them well. Perhaps one of his best qualities, though, is his ability to launch a baseball into orbit at any given point. The Los Angeles Dodgers star is one of the best power hitters in the league.
Need proof of that? Well, the MLB has started to track the exit velocities of every ball put into play for quite some time now. In the StatCast era, Ohtani has been the most powerful hitter for the Dodgers so far. It's not even a contest: the fifteen hardest-hit balls for the Dodgers in the StatCast era belong to Ohtani alone.
Against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ohtani recorded yet another top mark. The Dodgers two-way star reached an exit velocity of 120 miles per hour, a new record for the team in the Sta