Shohei Ohtani's first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers was about as storybook as it gets.
Ohtani won his first National League MVP, and his third overall while helping lead the Dodgers to a World Series title. So, what will Ohtani do for an encore in La La Land?
The two-way superstar is as popular a baseball player as there has ever been. This means there are tons of ways to bet on the Shohei Ohtani odds this season, but finding the value can be tough.
I sort through the best MLB odds and bring you my favorite MLB picks backing him for the 2025 MLB season.
Shohei Ohtani Odds
| Market |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NL MVP | +170 | +145 | +160 |
| NL Cy Young Award | +3000 | +8000 | +2800 |
| Most Regular Season Stolen Bases | +1600 | +7000 | +2200 |
| Most Regular Season Home Runs | +600 | +500 | +600 |
| Most Regular Season Hits | +1400 | OTB | +2800 |
| Most Regular Season RBIs | +380 | OTB | +1200 |
Odds as of 3-11
Shohei Ohtani best bets
Shohei Ohtani most regular season runs scored (+400 at bet365)
When Shohei Ohtani signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers last offseason it was known that he wasn’t going to pitch for them until 2025. So, some of the luster was going to be taken off of his 2024 season, right?
Wrong.
With Ohtani able to focus on hitting, all he did was have one of the greatest offensive seasons the National League had ever seen. Here are the categories he led the NL in while hitting .310.
- Runs
- Home runs
- RBI
- OBP
- Slugging percentage
- OPS
- Total bases
- WAR
Now, home runs will always be the sexy play for Ohtani. He jacked 54 of them in his first season in L.A. But his home runs Over/Under is at 41.5 with the best value in the 50+ milestone in the +200 to +290 range depending on the book.
But let’s just look at those runs scored. One-hundred thirty-four. That’s a lot of runs. But there is no reason he can’t replicate that in 2025. He still hits ahead of the likes of Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
The Dodgers scored 842 runs last season. That’s 27 more than the next closest team and his biggest threats are Juan Soto and Bobby Witt Jr.
Soto no longer has Aaron Judge hitting behind him, and while Witt is phenomenal, the consistency of the Kansas City Royals will be tested this season.
At +400 I’m more than willing to back Shohei to lead the MLB in runs scored once again.
Shohei Ohtani Over 29.5 stolen bases (-120 at FanDuel)
We always knew Ohtani was a unicorn. Not only because he could hit and pitch, but because he has blazing speed as well, and the Dodgers let him tap into that speed last season.
Ohtani swiped a career-high 59 stolen bases for the Dodgers in 2024. That shattered his previous season's best, which was 26 back in 2021 during his first MVP campaign.
So, if Ohtani wasn’t hitting home runs or doubles, he was getting himself in scoring position for the stacked lineup due up behind him, allowing them to drive him in (this ties in nicely to our first prop).
It’s not only that Ohtani is fast. He is. He ranked in the 70th percentile in the MLB last season in sprint speed. It’s that he has great instincts on the base paths. He knows which pitches and situations to attack which in turn leads to getting great jumps off of opposing pitchers.
Ohtani’s base stealing was a big part of the Dodgers’ offensive success and there’s no reason to think he won’t run wild again in 2025.
Plus, this number is giving us plenty of room for a little regression. Although I wouldn’t bet it being that drastic. Lock in Over 29.5 stolen bases for Ohtani this season.
Shohei Ohtani National League MVP (+170 at DraftKings)
If Shohei Ohtani pitches in 2025 he’s likely going to win his second consecutive National League MVP Award. If he doesn’t pitch in 2025 he’s still the favorite to win his second consecutive National League MVP Award.
We went over his ridiculous hitting stats as a primary DH last season which resulted in a 9.2 league-leading WAR. His average WAR as a starting pitcher during his final three seasons with the Angels was 4.7. Ohtani has pitched to a 2.84 ERA over those three seasons and struck out an average of 180.7 strikeouts per year.
Now, the two-way superstar was supposed to be ready to start the season on the mound, but an offseason shoulder surgery on his non-throwing arm has delayed his rehab and he’s not expected to face live hitters until the Dodgers return from the Japan Series on March 18-19.
Ohtani is reportedly still targeting a May return to the mound and the Dodgers are expecting to move to a six-man rotation once he is back and that could mean as many as 20 starts this season.
But realistically, any effective action on the rubber for Ohtani this season and an average season for him at the plate and he’s going to have another MVP Award locked up.
I was looking at trying to get a milestone strikeout prop in here for a guy who struck out 11.4 batters per nine innings over the last three seasons, but 150+ Ks was priced around 150+ and he may not make enough starts to get there.
I’d rather the MVP at +170 which doesn’t require him to pitch at all.
