Ichiro v. Ohtani rookie seasons: who's been babied?

Through May 12 of his 2001 rookie season, Ichiro Suzuki had played 36 games and that's with the season starting April 2. That includes games in New York, Chicago, Boston and Toronto.​

BA .351
OBP .370
SLG .476
OPS .846

Compare that with Shohei Ohtani in 2018: 20 games batting, including 3 PH, and 5 games pitching. The Angels started March 29 and have played 39 games.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2018	23	LAA	AL	20	74	69	11	24	4	1	5	16	0	0	5	16	.348	.392	.652	1.044	181	45	0	0	0	0	1	D/1

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W	Awards
2018	23	LAA	AL	3	1	.750	4.10	5	5	0	0	0	0	26.1	20	12	12	4	11	0	32	1	0	1	107	104	4.06	1.177	6.8	1.4	3.8	10.9	2.91

Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE	BAbip	tOPS+	sOPS+
LAA-Angel Stad	12	12	48	46	9	16	2	0	5	11	0	0	2	11	.348	.375	.717	1.092	33	0	0	0	0	0	1	.367	106	186
COL-Coors Fld	2	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	104	160
KCR-KauffmanStad	2	2	9	8	1	3	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	2	.375	.444	.750	1.194	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	128	207
OAK-Oakland Col.	1	1	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	-18	15
TEX-Rangers Bpk	2	1	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	40	78
SEA-Safeco Fld	1	1	5	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.500	.600	.750	1.350	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	168	271

Split	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	SO9	SO/W
LAA-Angel Stad	1	1	.500	3.00	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	5	3	3	1	3	0	13	0	0	1	35	0.889	13.0	4.33
HOU-MinuteMaidPk	0	0		6.75	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.1	6	4	4	1	5	0	7	0	0	0	24	2.063	11.8	1.40
OAK-Oakland Col.	1	0	1.000	4.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	3	3	3	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	22	0.667	9.0	6.00
SEA-Safeco Fld	1	0	1.000	3.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	6	2	2	1	2	0	6	1	0	0	26	1.333	9.0	3.00

Ohtani hasn't played east of the Mississippi. Or in bad conditions. Played in only 5 road parks. All homers at home. He's really been babied.