Shohei Ohtani v. Cal Raleigh in 2025 regular season fielding innings: 47 as pitcher v. 1,072 as catcher.

Shohei Ohtani does is beyond amazing. Right?

The four players with at least 50 Home Runs (HR) in 2025:

Rk	Player	HR	Season	Age	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB
1	Cal Raleigh	60	2025	28	SEA	AL	159	705	596	110	147	63	24	0	60	125	14	4	97	188	.247	.359	.589	.948	169	351
2	Kyle Schwarber	56	2025	32	PHI	NL	162	724	604	111	145	64	23	2	56	132	10	2	108	197	.240	.365	.563	.928	150	340
3	Shohei Ohtani	55	2025	30	LAD	NL	158	727	611	146	172	83	25	9	55	102	20	6	109	187	.282	.392	.622	1.014	179	380
4	Aaron Judge	53	2025	33	NYY	AL	152	679	541	137	179	94	30	2	53	114	12	5	124	160	.331	.457	.688	1.144	215	372

Provided by Stathead.com: Found with Stathead. See Full Results.
Generated 11/1/2025.

Ohtani became the first to finish a MLB season with 55 HR.

2025 fielding innings:

Ohtani: 47 pitching in 14 games

Raleigh: 1,072 catching in 121 games

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Ohtani:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=ohtansh01&year=2025&t=b

Defensive Positions

Split	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
as DH	158	727	611	146	172	25	9	55	102	20	6	109	187	.282	.392	.622	1.014	380

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/29/2025.

Of those 158 games in 2025, Ohtani also pitched in 14 (47 innings). That means that in 144 games Ohtani did nothing but hit as the Designated Hitter (DH) and maybe run the bases. The rest of the time, Ohtani sat in the dugout. In his entire MLB career, Ohtani has played only 8 innings in the outfield.

Using his 2025 splits, we can break out the HR Ohtani hit in games he started as a pitcher:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=ohtansh01&t=b&year=2025

Those 4 HR were compared with his HR log:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/event_hr.fcgi?id=ohtansh01&t=b

Two of the 4 were hit after Ohtani had been relieved as pitcher, so they go into his DH total.

Two of his 55 HR as pitcher. 53 as DH.

Here are Ohtani's hitting stats for the 14 games in which he pitched. Because of the goofy rule that let's him remain in the game as DH after he has been removed as pitcher, most of these numbers are probably Ohtani as DH.

Date		Opp	Result	Inngs	IP	PA	AB	R	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	BB	TB	HBP	SH	SF	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025-06-16		SDP	W, 6-3	CG	1	5	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	.300	.396	.643	1.039
2025-06-22		WSN	W, 13-7	CG	1	5	4	3	2	0	0	1	1	1	7	0	0	0	.291	.390	.624	1.014
2025-06-28	@	KCR	L, 5-9	GS-8	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.291	.392	.641	1.033
2025-07-05		HOU	L, 4-6	CG	2	5	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.281	.384	.617	1.002
2025-07-12	@	SFG	W, 2-1	CG	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.275	.380	.608	.987
2025-07-21		MIN	W, 5-2	CG	3	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	.275	.379	.614	.993
2025-07-30	@	CIN	L, 2-5	CG	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.269	.373	.605	.978
2025-08-06		STL	L, 3-5	CG	4	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	.276	.381	.606	.987
2025-08-13	@	LAA	L, 5-6	CG	4.33	5	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	.284	.391	.630	1.021
2025-08-20	@	COL	L, 3-8	GS-8	4	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.285	.393	.625	1.018
2025-08-27		CIN	W, 5-1	CG	5	5	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.278	.387	.608	.995
2025-09-05	@	BAL	L, 1-2	CG	3.66	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.277	.386	.603	.989
2025-09-16		PHI	L, 6-9	CG	5	5	5	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	.282	.395	.611	1.006
2025-09-23	@	ARI	L, 4-5	CG	6	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.282	.394	.617	1.011
				Inngs	IP	PA	AB	R	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	BB	TB	HBP	SH	SF	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Totals			Totals		47	62	54	9	12	4	2	2	4	8	30	0	0	0	.222	.323	.556	.878

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Cal Raleigh season Home Run records: catcher, switch hitter.  Thursday, September 18, 2025

Cal Raleigh has hit 49 Home Runs (HR) in 2025 as a CATCHER!

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Cal Raleigh also hit another 11 HR as DH.

Split	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	IBB
as C	120	533	448	89	115	18	0	49	98	12	2	76	129	.257	.371	.625	.996	280	5	12
as DH	38	170	147	21	31	6	0	11	25	2	2	20	59	.211	.312	.476	.788	70	1	5
as PH	2	2	1		1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/31/2025.

So we are comparing the 49 HR that Raleigh hit as a catcher with 2 HR Ohtani hit as a pitcher ... in 14 games and 47 innings.

Which is more physically and mentally demanding?

Then there are the DH HR:

Ohtani 53

Raleigh 11.

Totals:

Ohtani 55

Raleigh 60.

It seems silly to suggest that Ohtani did more amazing stuff than Raleigh in 2025.

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