You can't blame Ohtani for not being himself when he's back in Anaheim.

He probably still has nightmares from his time there. Here he was putting up huge numbers, and sometimes was getting support from an on-and-off healthy Mike Trout.

In six years, he didn't get to play a single postseason game. There are only two teams in MLB who haven't seen the postseason since 2018, and that's the Pirates (2015) and the Angels (2014).