Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is like the rest of the MLB world in trying to find superlatives to discuss Shohei Ohtani's historic 2024

Los Angeles Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman shut down the possibility of Shohei Ohtani pitching for the club during the postseason on Thursday, telling the Orange County Register's Bill Plunkett that Ohtani is " not really an option ."

The door might not be completely shut on the idea of Shohei Ohtani throwing a pitch this season after all, though the odds of that door creaking open still remain quite slim. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Ohtani had ruled out any possibility of the two-way superstar pitching in games at any point in 2024 after undergoing a hybrid Tommy John/internal brace procedure last September,