Whether your preference is to call him the best or merely the most exciting player in Major League Baseball, Shohei Ohtani is having a season worthy of his most oft-mentioned historical comp.
"We all romanticize what it would have been like to watch Babe Ruth play," Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon said Tuesday, according to MLB.com's Rhett Bollinger. "Now we're living it. So don't underestimate what we're seeing."
The high point of Ohtani's 2021 campaign was Sunday, when he became the first player ever selected to an All-Star team as a hitter and a pitcher.