
Shohei Ohtani is already achieving the unfathomable, and we’re still a little under a month before the Los Angeles Angels actually begin their 2023 regular season. He’s just doing it in a different — albeit familiar — uniform for now.
On Monday, during a 2023 World Baseball Classic exhibition in Japan, Ohtani played for Japan for the first time since he was 21. He essentially hadn’t appeared with his home nation’s team since joining the Angels in 2018.