Ohtani Scratched From Tonight's Lineup; Cause for Concern?

All right, I gotta ask you because this came up earlier today it's been uh, it's been widely reported Despite what dave roberts wants to say Apparently that bullpen session of otani didn't go All that well, uh last week. We thought that maybe this past weekend We would have seen him there after throwing the bullpen dave roberts. Uh dodgers manager comes out tells everyone He's pitching before the end of the year. Everything is going to be fine Well in his last seven games, he's hitting a buck 30. He's got no arm runs. No rbis He struck out four times last night against the cardinals. You can't tell me he's not hurt He is not he has been about as non-a-factor as the dodgers have seen since they've had him forget about pitching My question is if this biceps a problem the knee is a problem and something is clearly a problem here Are the dodgers in trouble if otani can't get it done here in the postseason It's a good question. I don't know that i'm ready to panic on that yet and i'll chalk it up at least To a slump over the last two or three weeks as far as the pitching goes. I don't think dave roberts Right now joe feels like he owes us anything, you know He doesn't feel like he owes it to tell anybody anything really as far as what's going on. So I think he's like pitching And why I mean why Yeah, because there's no reason to say anything else. This is what teams do. This is what managers do I mean, aaron boone's been doing this for years, you know, like oh, he'll be back next week And then he's out for six months, you know, so You know What teams do what teams do is they put on the best pr face for the player whenever a player is out Even if they're gonna have tommy john surgery, they'll say 12 to 14 months, but he could be back sooner You know, they always paint the best picture possible So that's what i'm saying is that dave roberts doesn't really owe it to us to tell us that yeah I'm gonna say that there's a possibility of pitching but in the back of my mind I know there's not and he's not going to give that to us It's just the way that baseball works and the way sports works, too So, uh, look, I I don't know as far as how serious the injury is and if it's affecting his hitting Clearly you're bringing up some some very drastic numbers that would indicate that something is indeed going on with him here I remember he was able to pitch with tommy john surgery. I'm sorry to hit with tommy john surgery and had no issue, too so I I just think the the consensus on la is is they really just not playing their best baseball In august and maybe even into september and at some point they're gonna have to start playing better and joe It's impossible for you or I to know whether or not that's going to begin or when it's going to begin But because it certainly has not they had no business losing to the cardinals the way that they did Yeah first time out. I think he has actually struck out four times in a game. He just doesn't look healthy enough and I I think they can win if he would be Hitting right? I don't think they need him as a pitcher in order to be able to win But i'll be damned if I don't think they're in trouble if he's uh, if he can't hit I mean a buck 43 over the last week and a half is not going to get it done in the postseason I'm wondering if maybe even a little time off isn't Something we might expect with the dodgers, right? I I mean Where there's smoke there's fire here I just don't think the dodgers are good enough to overcome an otani being 60 at the plate don't think that's something I mean their team is their team is still really good and Maybe not to win the world series But If you if you told me otani didn't play a game the rest of this season and postseason And told me that the dodgers still got to the nlcs. I wouldn't be surprised at all They're still really talented with that pitching