Recency bias is really fucking with some of yall. Ohtani is clearly one of the best in baseball right now. He's 38-19 with a 3.01 ERA but hasn't pitched since 2023. Yes, he won the MVP twice while pitching "full time". During his 2021 MVP season, he did hit 46 HRs with 100 RBIs but he also hit .257. He was 9-2 with a 3.57 ERA. 2021 was also a down year for baseball in general. Marcus f'ing Semien finished third in the AL MVP balloting that year. Ohtani had the best WAR of any MVP vote getter but the novelty of pitching and hitting has really messed with some of you heads
Through 7 years as a hitter, he's good not great. This season has been one for the record books but if his career ended now, he's not a HOFer.
But Macanudo... He won the MVP twice. So did Dale Murphy who, over a 7 year stretch was one of the best in baseball as well. And yet, Murphy is not in the HOF. Don Mattingly, through his first 6-7 full time seasons has very similar stats and he's also not in the HOF. Gary Sheffield had 7 very good seasons from 99-2005 and played for 22 years with 2700 hits and 500 HRs and isn't the HOF. Manny Ramirez had 14 seasons 95-08 with similar hitting results to Ohtani (with a much better BA as well) and he's not in.
50/50 is an amazing accomplishment but if his career ended right now, Ohtani is NOT a HOFer. Pull your heads out of your fanboi asses.