There has never been a stat page like Shohei Ohtani’s. Every other player in baseball history gets one career line; Ohtani gets two, and both of them read like a Hall of Famer’s. Through early July 2026, he sits at 298 career home runs at the plate, a career ERA under 2.80 on the mound, four MVP awards, two World Series rings, and the only 50-homer, 50-steal season ever recorded.
And 2026 might be his most ridiculous chapter yet. Fully rebuilt from his second elbow surgery, Ohtani is having the best pitching season of his life, entering July at 8-2 with a 1.58 ERA, numbers that briefly had him chasing sub-1.00 ERA territory not seen since the dead-ball era, while still leading the Dodgers in home runs as their leadoff hitter.
The chart below covers the full Shohei Ohtani stat sheet: his 2026 season so far, his complete year-by-year batting and pitching numbers, his Japan totals, and the records only he holds. Take a look, then we’ll break it all down.
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The 2026 season: his best arm yet
Shohei Ohtani’s stats in 2026 are led, for the first time in his MLB career, by his pitching. Two full years removed from his second elbow reconstruction, and freed from the careful once-a-week workload of his 2025 return, he entered July at 8-2 with a 1.58 ERA and 86 strikeouts over 79.2 innings, the best sustained run of his pitching life. He opened the year with back-to-back scoreless starts, was still carrying a sub-1.00 ERA into June, and drew comparisons to the sport’s all-time ERA seasons before settling into merely dominant. He is on pace to blow past his career high of 166 innings, all while leading the Dodgers in home runs.
The bat, by his standards, has been quieter and still elite. Hitting .291 with 18 homers, 50 RBI, and a .954 OPS entering the holiday weekend, he leads or sits near the top of the NL in on-base percentage, walking at a 15 percent clip as pitchers increasingly refuse to challenge him. In June he became the first player in MLB history to hit 8 home runs and go 3-0 on the mound in a single calendar month, the kind of record that exists only because he does.
The bat: nine seasons, 298 homers
Ohtani’s hitting career splits neatly into two acts. The Angels years (2018-2023) began with a Rookie of the Year campaign and peaked with two unanimous AL MVPs: the 46-homer breakout of 2021 that made the two-way experiment undeniable, and the .304, 44-homer masterpiece of 2023, when he led the American League in home runs while making 23 starts as a pitcher. The Dodgers years have somehow escalated from there. In 2024, playing DH-only while his elbow healed, he authored the first 50/50 season in history, 54 home runs and 59 stolen bases, and won the NL MVP. In 2025 he set a career high with 55 homers, scored a franchise-record 146 runs, and won his fourth MVP.
The running total entering the 2026 All-Star break: 298 career home runs, roughly 720 RBI, and a .285 career average, with number 300 likely to fall within days. He remains the only player, along with a certain 1920s outfielder from Baltimore, for whom that’s only half the resume.
The arm: a career interrupted, twice
The pitching table tells a stop-start story that makes the totals more remarkable. Ohtani’s rookie year on the mound ended after 10 starts with a torn UCL and Tommy John surgery; he didn’t pitch at all in 2019 and barely in 2020. Then came the three-season peak, 9-2 in 2021, a career-best 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA and 219 strikeouts in 2022 (fourth in Cy Young voting), and 10-5 in 2023 before a second UCL tear shut him down again. He skipped pitching entirely in 2024, hit 54 home runs anyway, eased back with 47 innings in 2025, and delivered the signature two-way playoff game that October: three home runs at the plate and 10 strikeouts on the mound in NLCS Game 4, en route to series MVP. Across it all, his career regular-season ERA entering 2026 stood at 2.93; this year’s run is dragging it toward 2.75.
The records nobody else can touch
Some of Ohtani’s numbers have peers; the combinations do not. He is the only player ever with 10 or more pitching wins and 30 or more home runs in the same season, and he’s done it twice. He is the lone member of the 50/50 club. He is the only player ever selected to an All-Star Game as both a pitcher and a hitter, and just the second player, after Babe Ruth in 1921, to pair a 50-homer season with 50 career strikeouts as a pitcher. Add four MVPs in five years across both leagues (only Frank Robinson has also won in each), a Rookie of the Year, an NLCS MVP, and back-to-back World Series rings, and the stat sheet reads less like a career and two careers stapled together.
Final Word
Shohei Ohtani’s stats through early July 2026: a .291 average with 18 home runs at the plate, an 8-2 record with a 1.58 ERA on the mound, 298 career homers, a career ERA sliding under 2.80, four MVPs, and the only 50/50 season ever played. The Japan numbers that started it all, 48 homers and a 2.52 ERA for the Fighters, now look like a rough draft. Every season he plays adds rows to two tables at once, and no one else in the sport’s history has ever needed the second one.
The on-field numbers are only half the Ohtani story — the rest is measured in dollars, from the $700 million contract to a collectibles market that tracks his every milestone. For that side of the phenomenon, see our breakdown of Shohei Ohtani rookie card values.