Shohei Ohtani tracker: Updates on baseball's biggest star with Los Angeles Dodgers

The second act of Sho-Time has begun.

Two-time unanimous American League MVP Shohei Ohtani bolted across town from the Los Angeles Angels to the Dodgers this past winter, signing for a 10-year, $700 million (USD) contract - the largest in the history of team sports.

Nearly a year after leading Japan on the mound and at the plate to the World Baseball Classic title, spring has finally come for the two-way generational talent with his star-studded, new team.

Ohtani will not pitch for the Dodgers in 2024 after having elbow surgery for his second time in September. He will resume pitching in 2025.

Wherever he goes, all eyes will be on the 29-year-old unicorn in his maiden season in Dodger Blue as Ohtani looks to postseason play for the first time in his seventh year in Major League Baseball.

Keep up with Ohtani on Olympics.com in his debut season with the Dodgers. His steps are as below.

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Shohei Ohtani with Los Angeles Dodgers – Timeline

• 21 April 2024 - Ohtani overtakes Hideki Matsui for career home run lead by a Japanese-born player with No. 176 against the New York Mets. He now also leads the majors with a .368 batting average.
• 12 April 2024 - Ohtani ties Matsui's MLB Japanese home run record of a career 175 with solo shot vs the San Diego Padres, his fourth of the season. He also had a pair of doubles, giving him 1,001 hits in the majors and Nippon Professional Baseball combined.
• 8 April 2024 - Ohtani has his fifth straight multi-hit game including home run No. 3 on the year to lead the Dodgers to a 4-2 win over the Minnesota Twins. It's the longest such streak of Ohtani's MLB career.
• 3 April 2024 - Ohtani hits his first home run for the Dodgers, a seventh-inning solo shot off the San Francisco Giants' Taylor Rogers in his ninth game and 41st at-bat of the year. It was the longest homer-less start to a season in the majors by Ohtani, who is three shy of tying Matsui Hideki's MLB record for most career home runs by a Japanese. The Dodgers won the game 5-4.
• 28 March 2024 - Ohtani has two hits and scores a run in his first game at Dodger Stadium as a Dodger. Team wins home opener vs St. Louis Cardinals 7-1.
• 21 March 2024 - Ohtani goes 1-for-5 with a run and an RBI as the Dodgers lose 15-11, splitting series before heading back to the States.
• 20 March 2024 - Ohtani makes his regular-season debut for the Dodgers, going 2-for-5 with an RBI and a stolen base.
• 17 March 2024 - Ohtani strikes out twice in two at-bats vs Kiwoom Heroes in Seoul.
• 16 March 2024 - Ohtani and Dodgers arrive in Republic of Korea for Seoul Series vs San Diego Padres.
• 13 March 2024 - Ohtani finishes spring with .500 BA, two HRs, nine RBIs, one SB and 1.486 OPS in eight games.
• 5 March 2024 - Ohtani faces his old team the Angels for first time. He is hitless in three at-bats.
• 4 March 2024 - Ohtani goes 3-for-3 with a triple, two RBIs and two runs in the Dodgers' 7-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies.
• 29 February 2024 - Ohtani, 29, announces marriage to an unnamed Japanese woman.
• 27 February 2024 - Ohtani homers in spring debut, a two-run shot to left off the Chicago White Sox's Dominic Leone. He struck out and hit into a double play in his two other at-bats.
• 19 February 2024 - Ohtani homers in first live BP of spring, a rocket to right-centre off reliever J.P. Feyereisen.
• 18 February 2024 - Manager Dave Roberts says Ohtani will not play in the three-game series vs the Padres to open the exhibition season.
• 12 February 2024 - Ohtani takes first on-field BP, homering on 10 of 21 swings.
• 9 February 2024 - Ohtani starts spring training at team facility in Glendale, Arizona.
• 13 December 2023 - Ohtani officially unveiled at Dodger Stadium.
• 10 December 2023 - Ohtani announces via Instagram his decision to play for the Dodgers - for a record 10 years and $700 million. It is later learned 97 per cent of the mony is deferred to give the team payroll flexibility and stay competitive.