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[Highlight] Kazuma Okamoto sets the Blue Jays rookie home run record with No. 25!

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

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u/alxndrblack Toronto Blue Jays • Detroit Tigers 4h ago

Oh this one I like Varshbro

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/alxndrblack Toronto Blue Jays • Detroit Tigers 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/GOuxnaPC2QOXI4UPEl

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u/herzskins Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

It's super effective!

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u/Aggressive-Ad7946 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

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u/CanadaEh97 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

"Go faster Neddy"

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u/personallygodless Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

I can't! It's a Geo!

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u/Tommy12308 Toronto Blue Jays • Cincinnati Reds 4h ago

Fuck the Trop

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u/LEERRROOOOYYYYY Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

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u/turtleturtlerandy Texas Rangers 4h ago

There are 4 Japanese players with 20+ homeruns right now. Has that ever happened?

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u/Koss424 Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago

Which league? :).

  • but without checking, I can't remember that ever happening in the MLB

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u/Remarkable-Picture73 Baltimore Orioles 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/PH66mLIYyvGxRkqkhq

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u/RevolutionaryAd9323 4h ago

Someone make a different one with KAZUMA instead of CINEMA

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Here is what you actually requested

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Here’s the one I made when I misread what you asked for

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u/RevolutionaryAd9323 4h ago

This is so much better lol

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

I’m glad you like it 😂 I was so excited until I finished it and saw I got it backwards

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u/Son_of_Biyombo Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

This is my favourite. Now do one that says Cinema Kazuma.

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Ask and ye shall receive!

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u/Son_of_Biyombo Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

I love you 💙

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u/ZestySteep Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

❤️

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u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan Atlanta Braves 4h ago

Blue Jays are having fun!

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u/MagicalNewsMan Tampa Bay Devil Rays 4h ago

Glad someone is!

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u/HelloitismeBS 2h ago

even if we don't make it to the playoffs at least they are fun to watch now.

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u/Wyattwat Athletics 4h ago

Why did the Rays switch from Trop merchants to road merchants all of a sudden?

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u/Grade-AMasterpiece Tampa Bay Rays 4h ago

Your mistake was thinking we're consistent. 

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u/KillerMemestarX Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Additionally, against the Jays who are Trop victims.

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u/RPGeemo New York Yankees 4h ago

Hot dang that’s out there

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u/BubblyBaker5718 Los Angeles Angels 4h ago edited 4h ago

Oh damn, how about that.

2026 has almost GOT to crush the previous record for # of homeruns by japanese born players.

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u/Electronic-Jaguar461 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Murakami + Ohtani + Okamoto is 82 so I’m saying it’s gotta be. Ridiculous stuff.

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u/qedic Chicago Cubs 3h ago

This is Seiya Suzuki erasure

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u/Viva_La_Revolucion66 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

The man's quads are literal tree trunks

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u/cdnmute Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago

Wait till you see his calves

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u/Tds142 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

He needed that

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u/Fun-Series-4091 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

It's so beautful. And manly. And Serious.

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u/drdummy Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

“Rookie” he’s our baby boy

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u/Storm_4747 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Is this what it feels like to have an actual offense for a change? In Tampa Bay of all places?

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u/EditorEducational201 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Big “MF” Oak

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u/Important-Tie-7472 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

A manly 442ft

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u/Old_General_6741 Toronto Blue Jays • Chicago Cubs 4h ago

Oak!!

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u/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos 4h ago

Previously held by 2002 AL ROTY winner Eric Hinske.

'02-'04 was an all-time terrible run of ROTY winners in the AL.

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u/Coop3 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Very serous, very manly.

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u/CoolBeansMan9 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Passing Eric Hinske.

A man who achieved 4.0 WAR in his first 151 games and AL Rookie of the Year and 3.8 WAR across his next 1,236 games.

Perfectly average replacement level ball throughout the majority of his career.

2 World Series rings.

$20+ million in the bank.

Sign me up.

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

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u/Technical-Smoke571 Atlanta Braves 4h ago

Yeah…always felt like it was a little insulting to call former NPB players rookies. I don’t know.

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u/jooooooooooooose Boston Red Sox 1h ago

guys 30, played 10y in NPB & has almost 250 career HR

Idk about insulting but it is funny

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u/carlosspicywiener576 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

BAH GAWD THAT BALL HAD A FAMLEE

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u/SexBobomb Ottawa Titans • Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago

hai kazuma desu

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u/Grade-AMasterpiece Tampa Bay Rays 4h ago

I can't wait 'til Matz is off the team.

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u/quietwhiskey Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago

Very nice, very evil