LA Dodgers Shohei Ohtani (30) was selected as one of the main characters of the milestone achieved in 2024.안전놀이터

Major League Baseball's official media MLB.com introduced 12 players who achieved a milestone in 2024 on the 25th (Korea time). Ohtani, who made his Dodgers debut at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul and received the spotlight all year, was also included in the list of 12 players. 

Ohtani is reigning as the best star in the Major League with a batting average of 282 (878 hits in 319 at-bats) in 875 Major League games, 225 home runs, 567 RBIs, 562 runs, 145 steals, OPS.946, 38 wins, 19 losses, and an ERA of 3.01 in 86 games (481 ⅔ innings) of pitchers. He entered the Major League by signing a $2.315 million contract with the Angels in 2018 and won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 2018 and the American League MVP in 2021 and 2023.

Ohtani, who became the biggest fish in the FA, signed a 10-year, 700 million-dollar contract with the Dodgers, breaking the record for the largest contract in professional sports at the time. Ohtani, who had elbow surgery in September last year and was unable to combine pitching this year, devoted himself to hitting as a designated hitter and hit a batting average of .310 (77 hits in 636 at-bats), 54 homers, 130 RBIs, 134 runs, 59 steals, and OPS 1.036 in 159 games, achieving 50 homers and 50 steals for the first time in Major League history. At the end of the season, he showed such a strong batting sense that he challenged 60 homers and 60 steals, wowing fans. 

Having achieved the milestone, Ohtani became the third player in his career to win the unanimous league MVP award. Ohtani, who has already set a record for the first time by winning two unanimous MVPs, broke his own record. When he won the National League MVP award with the Dodgers, he became the second MVP in the two leagues after Frank Robinson (1961 National League MVP and 1966 American League MVP) and became the first designated hitter to win the MVP award. 

"I didn't expect this before the season started. Ohtani became the first player in Major League history to hit 50 homers and 50 steals in a single season. The standard number is 50-50, but Ohtani has already reached an unrivaled level as soon as he hit 43 homers and 43 steals. No one has ever achieved such a record," MLB.com said during the 2024 season. 

"Otani did not stop there and finished the season with 54 homers and 59 steals," said MLB.com , which emphasized that Otani hit his fifth homer this year, recording 176 homers overall and surpassing Hideki Matsui (175 homers) as the most homeruns among Japanese Major League players. He has 225 homers overall. 

In addition to Ohtani, many other players in this year's Major League set records. MLB.com introduced Corbin Burns' 1,000 strikeouts, Pete Alonso's 200th home run, Aaron Judge's 300th home run, Juan Soto's 200th home run and the most walks under the age of 26 (769), Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer's 10th and 11th, Manny Machado's team's most ever home runs (167), Kenley Jansen and Craig Kimbral's 4th and 5th, Matt Olsen's 600th consecutive game, and Bobby Witte Jr. (Kansas City) 30 homers and 30 steals for the second consecutive year.