There Will Never Be Another Shohei Ohtani

He’s not selfish. He’s laser focused on his goals. It’s that simple.

Funny how they called him selfish, yet he nearly always gives 110% and often hard carries the team

I’m my 50 years loving baseball, witnessing a player like Shohei is once in a life time, he’s doing things that have never been done in MLB in 100 years, that’s a century, which means he’s a one in a life time player, I enjoy watching this young man play and the fact that he plays for the love of the game makes him even more valuable. No matter what he chooses to do, where to go, win or lose I will keep watching him play makes the game a lot more fun to watch with a lot of nerve racking 😅

He has no girlfriend and spends 12 hours sleeping to rest on the day off. Using advanced technology and techniques to keep his body on check. He's a smart, humble, and hardworking person. He just focuses on what he needs to do as a baseball player. That's why he is the best out there. If other players want to surpass him, then they should fix their mindset and take this sport seriously.

You may compare Shohei to Ichiro, but even Ichiro did predict when he retired, that Shohei "has to" be the number 1 baseball player in the world with the two-way talent.

The best part is pretty obvious that he enjoys playing baseball with smiles. I really want to see him smiling in the world series

Just a fact check, Ichiro won MVP in 2001 in his rookie year

The best part? He's having an even better season RIGHT NOW

I wanted Hideki Kuriyama, who was the manager of Nippon Ham Fighters, to be highlighted here. He negotiated with Ohtani and his father to play in NPB as a two way player. As Ohtani was then expecting to start his career as only a pitcher, not a batter, the two way player would not have emerged without Mr. Kuriyama. His accomplishment deserves a huge credit and Japanese baseball fans were all excited to see reunite of Ohtani and the manager Kuriyama at WBC this year.

Ohtani lives and breathes baseball ⚾️

Ohtani combines the physical gifts with the work ethic required for true greatness. Having people both physically gifted and dedicated to the craft is rarer than you think

Personally, my favorite thing about Ohtani is that he seems to be a normal person, even though he is an outstanding player.

Dude has to be one of the most perfect humans to ever live. He even has a flawless baby face on a tall, perfect athletic yet not bulky body. Has a calm demeanor but, isn’t a stiff. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s an alien, tbh.

It's not only Ohtani has talent and work hard on his dream, but he was in luck in Japan to meet a team that let's him do 2 ways, then another MLB team who's willing to let him do what he does, with all the criticism and ups and downs, he proves himself and become the legend today. I don't think there will be another Ohtani, not that many professional team is willing to put up to that, they will think of the team first not player's personal wish and achievement. But with Ohtani being the pioneer on 2 ways in modern professional baseball and creating a huge investment return, I think at certain degrees it might motivate MLB teams to start thinking of build another Ohtani. I think one more important thing this video failed to mention is Ohtani sleeps a lot, and it starts when he was little like 6th grade or something, he has a lot of stamina and he always pushed it to the fullest then rest to the fullest. Even to this day, he still have a strict sleeping schedule, he also study on how to improve his sleep quality, his daily is filled with training, game, eats and sleeps, and that's it, that's how he's able to pull it off. In America, I don't believe any players can do that. A young professional player who's doing above average in his 20s just sleep through his free time? No, he will be banging a lot of girls. That's why I don't think there will be another Ohtani, especially in America nowadays, most of young audiences like to watch NBA not MLB, kids under this kind of influence and environment growing up is very unlikely to be truly loving baseball, not to the point where he choose 100% baseball over women and money, and Ohtani is just different on that, that's why he's able to make everything works

Goatani is legendary. In 100 years no one remembers who wins these World Series. Everyone only remembers Ohtani.

Ohtani is literally the god in baseball Just make it clear that he was convinced by Nippon ham fighters staying in Japan because they will train him to be a two way player. It’s not what you said in the video about he knowing he’s gonna spend years in minors. If he chooses to directly play in USA at age of 18, he’s gonna be trained only as a pitcher. The scouts and trainers in the US are lack of visions

Enjoy him while he's still playing and dominating. He's a once in a lifetime player...

Shohei is a player I would've created on a video game never to believe that this caliber of player would actually exist.

Good video to remind us it was Ohtani's 4th year to truly dominate in both ways after the seemed promised rookie season. We sort of get used to his ridiculous dominance nowadays. I believed his talent before 2021, but still found it a pity that he couldn't perform it then, I supported him either way. His passion to baseball brings back so many baseball fans including myself. That's his true value.

The first Japanese-born MVP player is Ichiro He won the AL MVP in 2001