With highlights Shohei Ohtani's best games on the mound and at bat for the Los Angeles Angels from each month of his rookie seasonas well as anecdotes of his life in Americathis is one book that every fan of Major League Baseball will want--newly updated to include MVP and World Baseball Classic coverage!
Rarely does anyone use the term ';two-way' in regard to a baseball player. Yet the Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani, at the young age of twenty-three, has become the epitome of the term, drawing comparisons to Babe Ruth by baseball pundits everywhere.
After being drafted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League with the number-one pick in 2012, the eighteen-year-old Ohtani struggled with the bat during his rookie season. However, he had a breakout year in 2014, posting a 2.61 ERA in 24 starts and 179 strikeouts (as well as 10 home runs). By 2017, all thirty Major League Baseball teams had heard about the Japanese phenom and expressed int