SEATTLE — If you were dropped at T-Mobile Park this week and didn’t know it was hosting the MLB All-Star Game, you could be forgiven for guessing that Shohei Ohtani had convened a meeting of baseball’s brightest to determine who was worthy of becoming his teammate. However, that impression had little to do with Ohtani, who seemed less interested in the topic of himself than his competitors (suitors?) did.
See, Ohtani is playing baseball in a way that might be better described as “creating living history” than “hitting homers” or “pitching well” or even “tallying beaucoups of Wins Above Replacement.