“Sometimes I Take a Nap for 2 Hours”- Shohei Ohtani Opens Up About Napping Before MLB Games As Season Resumes

Shohei Ohtani is easily amongst the top performers in the league. With a stellar campaign in 2021, Ohtani delivered perhaps the first productive two-way season since Babe Ruth while he donned the Boston Red Sox jersey. And despite a hundred years in between them, professional players seem to always share some eccentricities. For Shohei Ohtani, that means one thing. Naps.

The player recently spoke out in an interview with a media outlet and made some truly startling revelations about getting some shut-eye. While the player has been tremendously productive before, many have attempted to re-create his ability to perform on the diamond.

And while his training routine may be a relatively obvious metric to recreate, players could be looking to replicate his napping schedule too. If only to recreate his stat line.

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Shohei Ohtani opens up about his napping schedule

Shohei Ohtani recently appeared in a video making its rounds on social media to cover the star athlete and his napping schedule. With the player is already set to start the 2022 season with the weight of his 2021 stats on his back turns out he may have the rest portion of his performance cycle well covered already. With the athlete going into some depth about his nap schedule while the season is on.

Speaking in more detail about the superstar’s rest schedule, he added about how sometimes it is necessary to recoup the energy. It was only in specific scenarios that he takes naps. Said Ohtani about when he prefers to take his repose, “If it’s a day I’m done with training or a day when I am adjusting for games.”

“After a meal I sometimes take a nap for 2 hours until a game starts”, he added. But for him to settle down, Otani would be needing space to take his much-needed rest.

In the same video, Ohtani reveals that while several teams earlier spared rooms where he took naps, the situation is different after the pandemic. “During the first 2 years of my MLB career, rooms were available. So anyone who wanted to nap could use that room,” he added.

And Ohtani was by no means an outlier. Speaking about other players in MLB too, Ohtani said that taking naps was fairly commonplace. Said Ohtani, “Some players nap in the locker room, some have towels over their face.”

Explaining why he would do it Ohtani set out an explanation too. Said Ohtani, “Because of a long consecutive schedule it can be hard to keep up your performances without taking naps.”

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But is this the strangest MLB habit you have heard? Do you know of any players who have even stranger habits during the session? And do you think his naps really help Ohtani in his performance?