Major League Baseball is pinning a lot of hopes on Shohei Ohtani, the player from Japan who’s taken the sport by storm. Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw explains how one player could help America’s pastime finally go global.
Shohei Ohtani is already the most famous athlete in Japan, the pride of a baseball-crazed nation. Yet his legend grew in December when he signed a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers. That contract, the biggest in the history of team sports, has turned Ohtani’s every move into a spectacle.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-17/mlb-brings-shohei-ohtani-season-openers-and-big-dreams-to-seoul?sref=omvmmwIg
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