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Shohei Ohtani continues to swipe bases at record pace as Dodgers star aims to join exclusive 40-40 club
Only five players in MLB history have tallied 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season
By Dayn Perry • 2 min readLos Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is of course best known for his historically unexampled combination of power at the plate and ace-grade skills as a starting pitcher. He's not pitching this season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, but the $700 million man remains one of the most deadly hitters in baseball as the Dodgers' every-day designated hitter. His skills don't end there, though. Ohtani has long been a hasty presence on the bases, and this season he's taken his base-stealing to new heights. Indeed, Ohtani may have yet another appointment with history thanks in part to his knack for pilfering bases in 2024.
Going into the Dodgers' weekend series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Ohtani has a National League-leading 37 home runs and 35 stolen bases (against just four times caught). With 40 games remaining on the Dodgers' schedule. Barring the wholly unexpected, those tallies mean that Ohtani will almost certainly join the exclusive 40-40 club, or those players to amass at least 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season. It's happened just five times across all of Major League Baseball history:
Player, team | Year | Home runs | Stolen bases |
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves | 2023 | 41 | 73 |
Alfonso Soriano, Washington Nationals | 2006 | 46 | 41 |
Alex Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners | 1998 | 42 | 46 |
Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants | 1996 | 42 | 40 |
Jose Canseco, Oakland A's | 1988 | 42 | 40 |
Ohtani's current pace will put him at 49 home runs and 46 stolen bases for the regular season. That, obviously, would make him the sixth member of the 40-40 club, and it would also make Ohtani the first ever to compile at least 45 homers and 45 steals in a season. It's no stretch to imagine a slight uptick on both fronts that puts 50-50 in play.
He also may be the quickest ever to 40-40, as Eric Stephen recently noted:
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