Ohtani’s 2025 Projected position is UTIL. By current rules, he won’t have SP eligibility until he starts 5 games next season. The rules also mention that players designated as pitchers by the stats provider will get a default RP eligibility - is it safe to assume this will be applied next season, or will Ohtani owners have to wait the five starts next year?
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He will have SP and Util.
Any time a SP is out for a whole season but remain a pitcher, they are manually given SP or RP so they can be used immediately as a pitcher. There has never been a purposeful instance in Ottoneu where a player was a pitcher in the major leagues and could not be used as a pitcher because of eligibility. Meaning, the “waiting 5 starts” scenario has never and will never happen for a major league pitcher.
This will hold true for Ohtani as well as any other SP out for the whole year, i.e. Alcantara (off the top of my head, I’m sure there are others).
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