We covered Shohei Ohtani’s white and red batting gloves last season, but with a new team came a new look for the two-way wizard. Not only did he update his gear to better suit his new Dodger threads, but you can now see his signature logo right on the strap […]


Last year, we posted about Shohei Ohtani’s 2023 PE cleats. In some posts circling the inter webs since – particularly when Ohtani began some workouts at Dodger Stadium at the turn of the new calendar year – we got some additional looks that had his cleat pinned as the “SO1” […]

Minnesota Twins pitcher Pablo Lopez uses the Mizuno Pro 12″ Deep Pocket baseball glove on the bump. Made with U.S. Kip leather tanned in Japan, the ace rocks an all red color way with gold logos. DICK’S Sporting Goods has both righties and lefties covered with an all black version […]

Minnesota Twins pitcher Pablo Lopez wears the Mizuno Dominant 4 Low metal cleats. Featuring “the new Mizuno C-Flex Outsole – a combination of enhanced stability, flexibility, and traction, while reducing stud pressure, providing superior comfort during long games” (per Mizuno’s official website), the stud right-hander added reinforcement on his drag […]

Shohei Ohtani’s first American bat brand is Chandler, owned (and resurrected from a 2019 bankruptcy) by Cuban slugging legend Yoenis Cespedes, and his bat is based off another legendary slugger’s model, Aaron Judge. Shohei’s power, like Judge, is top 0.0001% in the world, and his SO17.4 is sized accordingly. His […]

Shohei Ohtani is the first we’ve seen to wear a New Balance glove, but not everything is what it seems. Ohtani’s New Balance glove is actually a Wilson glove in disguise. Its even got the Wilson glove naming system on the thumb: “A2KSO17” With the help of the WPW community, […]

New Balance launched the Fresh Foam x 574 cleat in conjunction with the momentous signing of Shohei Ohtani in the lead up to the 2023 season, but Ohtani is not wearing those cleats, and it doesn’t appear he ever will. The 574’s suede upper isn’t built for a 100mph toe […]

We first saw New Balance batting gloves on Ha-Seong Kim, and now Shohei Ohtani is rocking them too. They don’t exist anywhere on the American internet, but with Shohei wearing them, maybe that will soon change. In the meantime, shop batting gloves at BaseballExpress.com.

Shohei Ohtani’s uniqueness doesn’t stop at his double diamond skill set. He also wears things that nobody else wears. Take his baserunning gloves, for example, which look a lot like soccer/football goalkeeper gloves. Where goalkeepers have the back of the hand stiffened to repel more shots, Ohtani’s gloves are stiffened […]

Shohei’s guards are very custom. He wears a unique full length lower leg guard that has a buckle that goes under the cleat. Its somewhat similar to the Belgard leg guard, but with a softer finish. The hand guard is unbranded and also unique. It wraps around the wrist similar […]