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 😅

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

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? He's having an even better season RIGHT NOW

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

Ohtani lives and breathes baseball ⚾️

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Shohei should have won the MVP the last 2 years in a row, he had the greatest season ever in 2021, did even better in 2022, and this year he's so far ahead of everyone else that no one can realistically hope to catch him even if he sits out the final month. The dude is clearly the best baseball player ever. The ONLY player who's even close to him in terms of pure baseball greatness is his teammate Mike Trout, and unfortunately they are being held back by the Angels terrible business and personnel and training decisions. I kinda want Ohtani to stay with the Angels, because having both him and Trout would make the Angels are very attractive destination for any player in free agency, IF the Angels decide to actually bite the bullet and give deals that players will actually sign instead of offering them table scraps and wondering why no one signs. I'd say I wish he'd come to the Orioles, but they'd manage to ruin him somehow so maybe I shouldn't hope for that...but IF they could not ruin him I wish he'd come out this way so I can watch him in person more often. Just like I do when Trout and he currently come to town I go to the games just to watch the best players play.

"First Japanese born player to win MVP" Ichiro bro

I think it's not being selfish but rather he has boundaries. His goals are his priorities. He doesn't look like a people pleaser, his mental ability inspite of huge media and fans around him is incredible.

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.

Shohei Ohtani has become a league on his own ...and becoming a leader of the band.

Plot twist, Ohtani is actually a robot created by the Japanese. Anime MC brought to life.

Usually shohei was game focused (has been since he made several trips to operation room in the past years), now in 2023 he is having the most fun in the dugout with the guys.

ohtani is him. star man of his team, league, sport, and world sports in general

How am I just learning about this guy? He’s a once in a lifetime athlete.

You can see his strength and conditioning improve every year, he's now the perfect mix of power and speed.

Shohei is baseball. His dedication to the sport is unmatched by anyone in any sport. The dude doesn't care about anything but being the best player ever. It's crazy to think that there is someone that can potentially win the cy young and batting title in the same year.

Hey man, what I’m about to say is not empty encouragement at all. I’m serious when I say that you are EASILY going to have 100,000 subscribers with the quality of videos that you are producing. The most important thing at this point is just continuing to produce at a consistent rate. Don’t let up on the production rate (or even increase the rate if possible), and you’ve got this in the bag.

Half correct on the minor league aspect part of the story. The Hokkaido Fighters manager, Kuriyama (and the 2023 Samurai Japan manager for the WBC) drafted him despite Ohtani asking not to be drafted. The Fighters then prepared a presentation to show Ohtani to show him how terrible MiLB was (at the time) and how no team would allow him to pursue his 2-way player dream, but the Fighters would.

best player of all time 💗

Maybe not another Ohtani but we will be seeing more 2-way players seeing it's possible. There's already a few in major college baseball. One on Florida who is their 3rd rotation pitcher and lead the nation in home runs.

You are definitely gonna have hundreds of thousands of subscribers

About "selfish" Ichiro was also criticized for the same words.same as Ohtani. But I want to talk about what Ichiro and Otani have in common. In 1995, the city of Kobe was hit by a huge earthquake, killing 6,000 people. In 1996, Kobe's baseball team won the Japan Series. Ichiro was part of that team and a symbol of victory. In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. 18,000 died. It happened in Otani's hometown. In that area Otani is a symbol of recovery. They know how many people are watching their backs. And they know what the audience wants. "Hero" Ichiro has always been "Ichiro" in the stadium. Ohtani continues to challenge. It is different from "selfish".

Something that wasn’t mentioned in the video was that the Nippon Ham Fighters were so desperate to keep Ohtani in Japan that they gave him the power to void his contract with them at ANYTIME so that he could go to the MLB whenever he felt like it. That’s unheard of

It's amazing how he's doing this in the modern game. For those who discredit Ohtani, and talk of how the old game was harder, I wanna see how past hall of famers like Ruth and DiMaggio would do against modern day MLB with this velocity, power and most of all, a talent pool including hispanics, Japanese, and most of all negros, that were forced to play in a seperate league because they were too athletic.

Two stats summarize Ohtani's skill and uniqueness: his career ERA+ is 143, meaning he is 43% better than the average major league pitcher (120 puts you in All Star territory), and his career OPS+ is 146, meaning he is also 46% better than the average major league hitter.

I want to dislike this video for the sole reason of calling him “selfish” but I won’t because I appreciate you making an Ohtani topic video, people need to understand we are witnessing a once in a life time freak athlete . Keep up the good work bro, love ur videos

If you are interested in shohei Ohtani, I recommend reading "9x9, 81-square strategic matrix" he wrote when he was 16 years old high school boy. In it, he describes his own goals as a baseball player at the age of 16, the eight keywords for each of the eight challenges he faced, and the eight goals he had to overcome to achieve them. In addition to specific issues to be solved to improve his pitching skills, the book also describes his mental strength, body building to become a professional, and human goals, as well as the specific solutions he came up with on his own plan. Frankly, I am amazed that a 16-year-old boy thought of this on his own, and also amazed at the level of baseball education in Japan that allowed him to write this himself and actually made him put it into practice on his own. And I am amazed that everything he says and does now as a major league player is connected to each element of this scenario. Please read it once. Because you will see the real, true picture of Shohei. He is blessed with natural qualities and DNA, but it was his own willpower to analyze weakpoint of himself, set his direction, and practice self-improvement that made him as the great player he is today. In other words, even his current well-endowed body is the result of his own training, his own diet, and his own body modification plan which he has spent the past 12 years from 16 building into a large body and his mental strength. Part of this plan was already written on his goal sheet at the age of 16. This is an incredible and astonishing fact, but it is true! Rather than marveling at him and evaluating him as good or bad, I think it is more important to understand the reality of what he has done and overcame himself to become the man he is today. I believe that everything is not a coincidence and that there are reasons and causes for the facts that happened. Maybe you can find out why he is not playing baseball for money and what his real goals are, who he is, after reading it.

Humans are incredible! No matter where you are on planet earth. A generational athlete will rise. I love humanity.

Honestly when Ohtani was still in NPB people considered him mostly a pitcher. I don’t think most people saw him competing with the likes of Judge for HRs back then.

Gosh where was I years ago that I sleep on this GOAT player..I wish Id knew him back then so that Id be able to watch him play in person.

Dude was depressed after his TJ surgery damn that's sad. His 2023 season is heating up already 🔥

love him so much

He's one of those historical athletes that literally redefines a sport. Like Bo Jackson, or Steph Curry making half court shots.

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Judge couldn't even hold Ohtani's jock strap. Ohtani is the best player MLB has ever seen.

There will probably also never be another Ichiro Suzuki. Ichiro might be the best light hitter ever(or the best contact hitter ever) while ohtani might be the best heavy hitter ever(or the hardest hitter ever). The skill sets of Ichiro and Ohtani are just awesome!

Ohtani. Freak athlete, greatest baseball player, nice dude and he’s even good looking. What else?

Id love to see Ohtani in the playoffs and world series. What he is doing on the mound and at the plate isnt getting enough viewership and coverage. This 2023 season may be the best season in anyone ever had in the MLB.

Awesome video! No doubt your subscribers will grow.

We Americans love Japans baseball players...good role models and great players and good hearts...

Real life Goro Shigeno

I won't say "never." Just like how Babe Ruth changed baseball forever, I think Shohei will have a similar impact. Teams will be willing to try more two-way players (and more players will be willing to try being two-way players). So maybe we'll see another Shohei in 100 years.

Gets better every Season. Man is half a God😎

No doubt one of the best. That's what you call "built different".

Ohtani is now 29 years old, how many years left his prime career can go?

I think there could be plenty of Ohtanis if america changes it's approach to baseball. Think about it, a great talented high school athlete is a good pitcher and happens to be a good hitter too and what happens? his coach tells him if he wants to make it to the big league he has to dedicate his pursuit to one craft, either batting/fielding or pitching.

The main reason why he did not go to the MLB straight out of high school was not because he will play in the minors. But because the Japanese team would allow him to pitch and hit. As well as a few other things. I say this because he wrote out his goals while in high school and the first three goals were, Age 18. sign with an MLB team, Age 19. Master English and reach AAA, Age 20. Get called up to the Majors and make 13mill USD. Oh, and the Japanese team also allowed him to leave to the Majors whenever he wanted. So he could have played one year and bounced if he really wanted to. At the time Major League teams only wanted him for his pitching, and Ohtani really wanted to do both. And that was not going to happen if he went straight to the Major Leagues at the time.

You could argue all players will look like him in 20,30 years having to play both ways if it becomes a trend.

I don't think he would have gotten the love he gets from Angels fans on a different team. Even when they're on a 7 loss streak, the stands are still full of people shaking the stadium with cheers for him. I even got to witness my first grand slam last Friday from him, disappointing that they somehow still managed to lose though. 😅

Great video but some context about his 2020 season would be good. His knee surgery was to correct a birth defect (he was born with 2 kneecaps) and his 2020 season was mediocre because he had no proper rehab and minor league starts due to covid. Back then as soon as they threw him into the fire and make him pitch against major league teams right away I knew it wasn't going to look good.

I love otahni. I really want him to go to my team(the Astros) but the Astros are super cheap so there’s no chance we’re gonna pay 500 mil for 1 player

Such good editing and quality dood

He's a real life Goro Shigeno

They think and want to duplicate what shoei is doing but he’s unique just like how no one is going to match ichiro’s records or uniqueness either, idk how long shoheis career may last bc of his heavy workload but it’s obvious he’s had the greatest seasons in the history of the game NO DOUBT I don’t care what the critics or naysayers say about that either, I know the truth

I'm like a lot of people, if the video says Ohtani, I'm watching it--NEVER seen anyone say Ohtani is selfish.

When I listen to statements like, at 6:24, he said: "... and became the first Japanese-born player to win the MVP"... Ishiro is forgotten so quickly

I'm sure there will be because he set a new standard and people will aspire to be like him

Ohtani is a freak for real and is the REAL goat of baseball, period. However, I do not see him playing that long, though, so he needs to get that ring, now. However, his market is limited because a team has to be in a position to win now and be willing to pay him $40+ million a year? It would suck if he ended his career without a ring.

Showing Babe Ruth and Ohtani side by side shows how unique being a two way is, but also shows that anyone can play baseball

I wonder how it feels to continuously prove everyone wrong year after year.

Selfish? Who said that? Never heard anyone said that about Ohtani. I find it very selfish to claim Ohtani as a selfish person.

1:37 He had a .322 batting average and 22 home runs in fewer at-bats.

I believe that Ohtani is so precious that when he mistakenly hits a batter, the batter walks up to the mound and hugs him to console him.❤🤭❤❤❤

Real life Shigeno Goro ⚾🔥

i wonder what it would be like if japanese professional baseball was incorperated into the mlb.

Very nice video, but, please try not to mix Japan with Hong Kong downtown scenes. There are tons of scenic or ordinary town view materials of Tokyo or even his native Miyagi.

Ohtani is baseball.

Ichiro has already said Ohtani is obake...a monster, not of this world.

Single handedly holding down baseball😂

“First Japanese player to win MVP” …except Ichiro won it 20 years prior…

He's one of the fastest runners on the LA Dodgers!!! Think about that!! Pitching, Running, Hitting, Fielding... Freak...

I understand your points, and I don't doubt Ohtani's talent, but baseball players have always been getting better and changing the sport in big ways. Pitchers are getting better, throwing pitches with more movement and spin. Fastballs are getting faster. Hitters pay more attention to launch angle than 2 decades ago, hitting more homeruns and increasing exit velocity. And more recently with Ohtani demonstrating that it can be done, two way players are appearing across the minor leagues as the ultimate utility men. So while I think it will certainly be a while before anyone even comes close to matching Ohtani, I have no doubt that someone will eventually surpass him (barring world ending circumstances). The human body does have a limit, but no way in hell we've reached it yet. PS: Have a like and subscribe for the well made and thoughtful video.

Ohtani and trout are 2 of the only players of all time who for some reason do not have to preform in the playoffs to be labeled "all time greats" you dont even have to win the chip but could they atleast make the playoffs??

Baseball is boring cousin of golf but I started to watch and appreciate it because of this man. Even if you remove baseball he's pretty likable

Real life Shigeno Goro

Did you say that he was the first Japanese to win MVP? I believe that honor goes to Ichiro Suzuki.

0:40 This scene is not Japan, is China, and 0:40 ~ is not 90's, is 80's or 70's.

If someone please drop the link of the Anime. Would greatly appreciate it

He had about 9 WAR total in 2021, which is a great season, but not the best ever. Ruth and Bonds best seasons were 12+. But he is on pace for that in 2023.

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My friends have taught me Asian people aren't as good at sports in general. Ohtani has proved me wrong.

Very Wrong information. He knew he will be in the MLBfarm system and opt out of the Japan NPB. But nippon ham fighter still drafted him (which is the only team), earned a chance and convinced him that they will growth him as the chosen one and allow him to do both pitch and batting and give a lot protection which is better than directly go to MLB

the way u state ohtani's stay in Japan as if it was all his decision to suddenly decide to be a two-way player...

0:40 The short airplane footage…… that’s not Japan. Maybe Hong Kong.

Did I hear Ohtani was the first Japanese born player to MVP… ?? Didn’t Ichiro Suzuki win MVP? Or did I misunderstand the context… 🧐

"without realising"...highly doubt anyone who follows the sport hasn't realised yet.