There likely hasn’t been a player to capture the imagination of baseball fans the last decade as much as Shohei Ohtani. He hasn’t proven to be the greatest player in the game yet, but the collection of talent in one man — from the electric fastball to the absurd splitter, combined with the composure and power at the plate — is a blend that you can’t even put together in video games.
We still have not gotten a full dose of Ohtani thanks to Tommy John surgery and a pandemic-shortened season, but 2021 looms large as a chance to see something that we haven’t really seen much of since.