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The 2024 MLB Season Review highlights Shohei Ohtani's dominance, Dodgers fans' dedication, and top page views. Explore Baseball Reference's epic breakdown.
Start the Rally: Tweet This Now!Baseball Reference (BR) has released its 2024 MLB Season in Review, and there is a lot of Dodgers love thanks to fans like you and analysts like us.
The most viewed player page in California? That would be Dodgers DH and NL MVP Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani was the most popular in 26 of the 50 states in the United States, or 52 percent of the country.
Following Ohtani was Yankees OF and AL MVP Aaron Judge, former Yankees OF and recent Mets signing Juan Soto, Angels OF Mike Trout, Royals SS Bobby Witt, Jr., and former Twins C Joe Mauer.
Ohtani took over Canada too, especially the West Coast, leading the way in five Canadian provinces. The other three viewed Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. more than any other MLB player.
California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii viewed the Dodgers more than any other team in 2024. The country was spread out as expected. The anomalies being the Yankees in Southern countries such as North Carolina and South Carolina, and even Florida. Alaska viewed the Astros more than any other team.
Canada was all Blue Jays in the entire country.
Ohtani was the most viewed DH in baseball, being named to BR’s all-page views team. Here’s the entire team:
- P Babe Ruth
- C Joe Mauer
- 1B Bryce Harper
- 2B Luis Arraez
- 3B Manny Machado
- SS Francisco Lindor
- OF Juan Soto
- OF Aaron Judge
- OF Mike Trout
- DH Shohei Ohtani
BR tracks its three most viewed player pages on a single day, and Ohtani was second on Sept. 20 – also known as the day after he hit three HRs and 10 RBIs in the previous night’s game, putting him in position to record baseball’s first 50-50 season.
This trailed only Giants legend Willie Mays’ page on June 19, the day when the baseball world paid tribute to him at the Rickwood Game, days after his passing.
The Dodgers led the NL West in divisional page views. Here’s the order:
- Dodgers
- Padres
- Giants
- Diamondbacks
- Rockies
Ohtani (No. 1) was joined by Mookie Betts (No. 7) on the top 10 player page views in 2024.
Ohtani was the most viewed player four times in the last year, in December 2023, May, September and October. Judge was the most-viewed player in three consecutive months from June through August.
Where fans spent the most time was telling to just how much fans looked up Ohtani:
- Ohtani’s Player Page – 3,716,965 minutes
- Mets Team Page after Grimace threw out the first pitch – 789,230 minutes
- Opening Day Box Scores – 590,363 minutes
- MLB Standings Page – 400,196 minutes
- Dodgers Team Page – 431,629 minutes
In total, 845,642,397 minutes were spent on Baseball Reference. That means only 0.4 percent of the time was spent on Ohtani’s page. It’s a huge website, if you’ve never been. Wow.
Your Turn: What is your favorite page to visit on Baseball Reference? What will you look for differently in 2025? Tell us below in the comments!
