Shohei Ohtani – A Real All-Rounder

Shohei Ohtani, aka ShoTime, is a Japanese professional Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels. He is touted as the ‘Next Babe Ruth’ and proves worthy of the name every time he enters the baseball field either as a pitcher or hitter. It is extremely rare to see a two-way player in modern-day baseball. As a childhood sensation and once-in-generations ball player in Japan, Ohtani achieved many awards and records. Japan series champion (2016), Pacific League MVP (2016), WBSC Player of the Year (2015), and Designated Hitter Best Nine (2015) are to name a few. In the Japanese national high school baseball championship tournament, as eighteen years old, he threw the fastest pitch ever by a high schooler at 160 km/h. Ohtani started phenomenally, in 2018, his MLB career, achieving more even than Babe Ruth did in his first two weeks. He was named the American League Rookie of the Year. With injuries and multiple surgeries, 2019 and 2020 did not go well for Ohtani.  In 2021, his MLB career was totally revamped. Ohtani made history by becoming the first player to be selected as an All-Star as both a pitcher and a position player. He became the first Japanese player to win the Best MLB Player ESPY Award. He was unanimously voted the 2021 AL Most Valuable Player. He became the first MLB player to pitch 100+ innings, records 100+ strikeouts, hits 100+ RBIs in a single season. His mind-boggling supremacy continues in 2022 season too.