TEMPE, Ariz. -- Baseball had seen nothing like Shohei Ohtani's unanimous AL MVP season in more than a century. With the new season arriving quickly for his Los Angeles Angels, Ohtani is eager to make more history.
"I feel like I can't be doing the same thing as last year, to have the same stats as last year," Ohtani said Tuesday through his interpreter at the Angels' spring training complex. "I need to get better and keep on improving, so that's the plan."
Ohtani's stats were absolutely daunting in 2021: A 9-2 record with a 3.