Shohei Ohtani Is Showing His Potential to Carry Baseball to New Heights

By Tom Verducci It’s not just about his metronomic ability to both hit and pitch. At the World Baseball Classic, we’re seeing a part of his personality and passion we’ve never seen in MLB. The Michael Jordan of baseball, all sinewy skill and cinematic glamour, pulled into second base with a look we have never seen in his five seasons playing Major League Baseball. The helmet was long gone, dislodged somewhere around first base from the ferocity of speed from his 6-foot-4, 225-pound frame. Tufts of his black hair flopped across his forehead. He turned toward his Team Japan dugout, waved his arm…

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