Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like noother since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani's dominance as a two-wayplayer, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the MajorLeague by storm. Since entering the league, he won the 2018 AL Rookie ofthe Year, competed in the 2021 Home Run Derby, started in the 2021 AllStar Game as both a pitcher and hitter (the first player to ever do so),won the 2021 Most Valuable Player award, and was named to Time100's list of most influential people of 2021. The question oneveryone's mind is how is this Japanese phenom doing this? And how farcan he go? As the next generation of baseballsuperstars cement themselves, Ohtani, who can pitch a 100mph fastballand was a Top 3 home run leader at the end of the season, stands outamongst them all. Major League Baseball has found the new face of thesport. In Sho-time, Jeff Fletcher willexamine the player's path from his early days in Japan, his transitionto the MLB, and a start-to-finish inside look at his historic 2021 MVPseason. Along the way, Fletcher will detail other players who havecrossed over from Japan to the major leagues, how Ohtani brought hisphenomenal talent to the game at a time when technology is exploding as ameans toward maximizing performance, and the role that Ohtani and hisotherworldly teammate Mike Trout are playing in helping to lead baseballinto the next generation.
- | Author: Jeff Fletcher
- | Publisher: Diversion Books
- | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1635767970
- | ISBN-13: 9781635767971
