{"id":72301,"date":"2026-08-11T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72301\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:14:16","slug":"max-muncy-asks-shohei-ohtani-if-they-have-max-muncy-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72301\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Muncy Asks Shohei Ohtani If They Have Max Muncy In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph theonion-dingbat\">LOS ANGELES\u2014Clarifying that he was simply curious whether there was a comparable version of himself overseas, Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy reportedly asked teammate Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday if they had Max Muncy in Japan. \u201cI\u2019m just wondering if you guys have your own version of me\u2014like, does Japan have a Max Muncy living over there the way I\u2019m Max Muncy in America?\u201d the three-time All-Star asked Ohtani, adding that if they did have one, he would be interested to learn whether Japan\u2019s Muncy was also a baseball player or was something else, such as a \u201cnormal business guy\u201d or \u201ceven a murderer.\u201d \u201cFor example, I know they\u2019ve got a Japanese version of Frankenstein over there called Godzilla, and I know you guys have special California rolls called sushi and better cartoons where people sword-fight and get naked and stuff, but what I\u2019m asking is if I\u2019m there in Japan. Like, when you saw me in the Dodgers locker room for the first time, did you think to yourself, \u2018Wow! America has Max Muncy, just like in Japan\u2019? Or did you think, \u2018I\u2019ve never seen this kind of exotic Max Muncy before in my life\u2019? And what about the Max Muncy who plays for the A\u2019s? Do you have one of those?\u201d Sources confirmed that Ohtani responded to Muncy\u2019s question by nodding affirmatively and explaining that in Japan they had a Max Muncy whom they referred to as \u201cDonkey Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES\u2014Clarifying that he was simply curious whether there was a comparable version of himself overseas, Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,851,33,1164,46629],"class_list":["post-72301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-mlb","tag-nihon","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-vol-62-issue-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}