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[♪ rock music playing,
Queen "We Will Rock You"]

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[commentator 1]
<i>Shohei Ohtani, he has done it, wow.</i>

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[commentator 2]
<i>Shohei, the unicorn, does it again.</i>

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[commentator 3]
<i>This guy's from another planet.</i>

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[commentator 4]
<i>With the paint on the four-seamer at 98.</i>

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[commentator 5] <i>Dive. On turn!
Right field, a bullet! And go!</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 6]
<i>He's the modern-day Babe Ruth.</i>

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<i>♪ Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Playing in the street
gonna be a big man someday ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You got mud on your face,
you big disgrace ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Kicking your can all over the place,
singin' ♪</i>

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<i>♪ We will, we will rock you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ We will, we will rock you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ We will, we will rock you ♪</i>

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[commentator 7]
<i>Ohtani, a laser and it's gone.</i>

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[commentator 8] <i>Ohtani got it. He got it.</i>

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[commentator 9] <i>Oh, out call.</i>

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[commentator 9 exclaims]

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{\an8}[commentator 10] <i>First ball swinging,
and first pitch crushing.</i>

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<i>Got him!</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 11]
<i>Seven incredible innings on the mound</i>

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{\an8}<i>and he just smashes a baseball a mile.</i>

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[commentator 12] <i>Shotime.</i>

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[crowd cheering]

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[♪ music stops]

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[Martínez]
<i>Shohei Ohtani is the only player</i>

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<i>in modern MLB history</i>

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<i>with over 10 pitching wins, 40 homers,</i>

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<i>and 15 stolen bases in the same season.</i>

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<i>As the sole All-Star to be selected
as a designated hitter and pitcher,</i>

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<i>his strikeout and home run count</i>

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<i>surpassed records
set by Babe Ruth decades ago.</i>

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<i>This is the story
of the most unique player</i>

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<i>in baseball history.</i>

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[♪ serene music playing]

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{\an8}<i>Born in 1994,</i>

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{\an8}<i>Shohei Ohtani grew up in a small town</i>
<i>in Iwate, Japan.</i>

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{\an8}<i>No one expected a legend in the making</i>
<i>to come from such a rural area.</i>

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{\an8}[Martínez]
<i>This is where his journey began.</i>

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[birds chirping]

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[Martínez] <i>As a kid,
Shohei watched Major League Baseball</i>

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<i>and dreamed of playing there one day.</i>

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[commentator 1] <i>Unemotional Ichiro Suzuki.</i>

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<i>And a ground ball back at the middle,</i>

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<i>and there it is,
he's the new All-time Hit King</i>

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<i>in Major League history number 258.</i>

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- <i>My, oh, my.</i>
- [crowd cheering]

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{\an8}[commentator 2] <i>Tonight,
it was Hideki Matsui who delivered.</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 3] <i>Randy Johnson
has thrown a perfect game.</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 4]
<i>Pedro Martínez is on the mound.</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 5]
<i>Barry Bonds has hit more home runs</i>

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{\an8}<i>than anyone who has ever played the game.</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 6]
<i>That may be in the upper deck.</i>

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<i>A mammoth home run by Ken Griffey Jr.</i>

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[commentator] <i>Around the horn of the bases</i>
<i>from third to first, Matsui steps up.</i>

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<i>Getting to start on the left field tonight
at 259 average with 9 home runs.</i>

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<i>41 runs…</i>

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{\an8}[Shohei on recording]

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[laughs]

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{\an8}[chuckles]

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{\an8}[commentator in English]

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<i>Because, he said, "Well, you're right,
I wasn't feeling well.</i>

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[Martínez] <i>In 2009,</i>

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<i>Shohei watched Matsui and I
face off in the World Series.</i>

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[commentator]
<i>…to the left-handed hitting DH.</i>

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[crowd cheering]

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[commentator] <i>Pedro's pitch to Matsui.</i>

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<i>And a flyball in the right, down the line.</i>

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<i>Gone. Two-nothing, New York.</i>

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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[soft grunt]

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[commentator 1] <i>Five strikeouts already.</i>
<i>Michael Busch, the batter.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Swing and a miss.</i>
<i>Michael Busch gets blown away with 100.</i>

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{\an8}[indistinct shouting]

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{\an8}[commentator 2] <i>Lowest opening average</i>
<i>in March and April since 1920s.</i>

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<i>So over 100 years. Minimum 770 innings.</i>

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{\an8}<i>And Shohei Ohtani</i>
<i>is at the top of the list.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Look at the names on there,</i>
<i>like Pedro Martínez and Bob Feller.</i>

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<i>- One, two. Eddie?</i>
- [Eddie] <i>Yes, he wins. Yeah.</i>

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[commentator 2] <i>Yes, he did.</i>

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[commentator 3] <i>Shohei Ohtani is
on the mound tonight</i>

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<i>and could be the right guy on the mound,
certainly for the halos tonight.</i>

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<i>There's the fastball getting a check swing
and a miss for strike three.</i>

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[commentator 4] <i>Shohei tying Babe Ruth</i>
<i>on the all-time strikeout list</i>

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<i>as far as the pitcher and hitter.</i>

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<i>Babe Ruth both at 501,
two-way stars The Babe and Shohei.</i>

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[commentator 5]
<i>Think Shohei is going to beat it.</i>

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<i>Peña swings and misses.
Nasty sweeper from Shohei.</i>

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<i>Second strikeout for Ohtani.</i>

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{\an8}[commentator 6] <i>Passes Babe Ruth now,</i>

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{\an8}<i>two-way stars
on the all-time strikeout list.</i>

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[commentator 5] <i>Really, nothing like it</i>
<i>in the history of Major League Baseball.</i>

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[commentator]
<i>Starting pitcher. Announcers. Fans.</i>

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<i>You got to love what you saw here tonight.</i>

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<i>Goes for the high fastball.</i>

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<i>Strikeout number 17 for Pedro Martínez.</i>

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[chuckles]

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I'm really, really proud to see
where he comes from

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and how he actually had that dream
from so far out.

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{\an8}[Martínez] I grew up just like Shohei.
Just like that, open fields.

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{\an8}I was also very free to move around.

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I'd like to be outside,
exposed to nature and free spirit.

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But I also had the dream
of becoming a baseball player.

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You know who really deserve
a lot of credit?

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I think it's his parents,
for educating this kid.

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I mean, make him so committed
to what he wanted.

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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Mm.

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[Shohei murmurs]

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{\an8}[Kuriyama in Japanese]

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[♪ suspenseful music playing]

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[commentator] <i>The 3-2.</i>

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- <i>Ohtani hits it hard and a diving stab.</i>
- [crowd cheering]

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<i>From his D's, the throw, not in time.</i>

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<i>Ohtani, big, strong and he's too fast.</i>

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[Martínez] <i>As a freshman in high school,</i>

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<i>Shohei mapped out his goals
on a "dream board".</i>

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<i>His dream was to be drafted first
by eight pro teams,</i>

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<i>which he planned to achieve</i>

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<i>by perfecting eight factors of his game,</i>

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<i>each with eight smaller goals.</i>

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<i>This included physicality, mentality,</i>

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<i>luck, control,</i>

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<i>and humanity amongst others.</i>

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It's quite impressive.

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I'm more impressed about this,

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about how he had it in his mind
before then

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than what he's doing.

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Because it's hard to draw your dream
and go and achieve it.

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[Martínez] I-I wish, I wish I could have.

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But I never thought about it.

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I… I had so many uncertainties

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when it came to baseball
and it wasn't easy.

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And I know it's not easy for him,
but this is quite impressive

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to draw your dream…

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in a piece of paper
and especially at such a young age.

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It's... It's probably more impressive
than the things he's doing in baseball.

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Wow. This should be
in the Hall of Fame already.

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This should be in the Hall of Fame.

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[awkward chuckle]

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{\an8}[chuckles]

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{\an8}[laughs]

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Oh…

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{\an8}[chuckles]

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[commentator] <i>He struck him out.</i>

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<i>CC Sabathia with a complete game shut out,</i>

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{\an8}<i>and this is his sixth complete game
as a New York Yankees…</i>

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Obviously writing this down

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and being able to, you know,
to execute this plan is amazing.

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I mean, I read everything he wrote down,
arm care and, you know, flexibility

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and stability and all those things
that he has written down on that paper.

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He's going to be in that
MVP Cy Young race every single year

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and will definitely lead him
to the Hall of Fame.

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[sucks teeth]

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What led to him kinda draw in his dream.

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And how is he able to put it all together,

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did he know his body that well?

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Did he know, uh, that he was going to be
that kind of athlete?

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I... I'm so intrigued to know
how he prepared himself so well.

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{\an8}[chuckles]

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[Martínez] <i>At six, Shohei wrote
that his favorite sport was baseball.</i>

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<i>His dream job was to be a baseball player.</i>

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<i>And as an adult, he wanted to be ordinary.</i>

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[players shouting indistinctly]

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When I was reading, I…
[stutters]

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I said this is not, you know, normal.

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And certainly he's not just anybody.

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He's not normal.

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Now, I'm intrigued to really,
really get to know Shohei.

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{\an8}[Martínez] <i>At 18, Shohei was scouted</i>
<i>to be a pitcher in the US.</i>

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<i>However, a pro team in Japan made an offer
that caught his attention.</i>

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<i>He was given the opportunity
to be both a pitcher and a hitter,</i>

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<i>something that hadn't been seen
in over decades.</i>

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I think when you really look
at that decision in 18,

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and not a lot of people
put a weight on it,

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but I do and I know Shohei does.

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[Balelo] That was a big decision.

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And I really believe that there could
have been two paths in a player's career.

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I really do.

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I think it's that sliding door
and it's door A or it's door B.

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And they allowed him to enter door A.

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And start in the big leagues,
and then we saw the rest from there.

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Did very well.

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But if he would have been in door B,

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and he would have started possibly
in the minor leagues,

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we have no idea
what could have come from this.

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They might have labeled him
just as a pitcher, just as a hitter.

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We might have not been able to see

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this special situation develop
the way it did.

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[♪ upbeat music playing]

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[deep breath]
Ah…

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{\an8}[Matsui in Japanese]

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{\an8}[commentator] <i>And to the count.</i>

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<i>Darvish sets the pitch
in their strike three called…</i>

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{\an8}[Balelo] You know,
there's 30 teams over here

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{\an8}and all 30 teams scout
what we call the Pacific Rim.

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And, uh, it was pretty well-advertised

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that Shohei was really looking
to come over

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and play in Major League Baseball.

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And he really had a strong desire
out of high school

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before he became a Fighter, to come over.

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Mr. Kuriyama had a very good rapport
with Shohei and the family,

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and so they came to an understanding

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that whenever Shohei felt like
it was time to come over

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and get an opportunity
to play in the United States,

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that they would grant him and honor that,
you know, his wishes to come over.

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And his story was a great story.

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Nobody wants to grow up
just being a pitcher.

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If you look at, you know,
youth sports and high school baseball,

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the best player is usually the shortstop,
the pitcher, the best hitter

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and all these different things in one.

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And like I said, I mean, you know,

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he's making it so kids
don't have to choose

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and, you know, making it so kids can be,
you know, both

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and pursue that dream as, you know,
being a dual, a hitter and a pitcher,

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because that's how you start playing
the game.

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And that is our dream as kids
is to, you know, hit home runs

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and to strike guys out.

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And this guy is both in one.

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So, you know, he's living out,
I think, every baseball player's dream.

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[Matsui hesitates]

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Maybe at a tournament it could happen.

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[sighs]

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{\an8}[Shohei on recording]

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{\an8}[Kuriyama on recording]

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{\an8}[camera shutters clicking]

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{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

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{\an8}[Shohei on recording]

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{\an8}[Darvish in Japanese]

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{\an8}[Darvish in Japanese]

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{\an8}[CC Sabathia] Like I said,
I mean, him being able to play

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{\an8}those, those first couple of years
in Japan as a hitter and a pitcher

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to set him up perfectly
to be able to come over here

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and have the confidence
and have the routine

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to know what he's doing,

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to be able to do both of those things
at a high level.

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So I think, you know,
he did the perfect thing

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of not coming over here when he was 18,
right out of high school,

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and being able to develop and learn
how to have the right routine

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to come over here
and make this impression on everybody.

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[crowd chanting]

247
00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:43,902
[crowd roaring]

248
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[commentator in Japanese]
<i>102.5 mph, a new record!</i>

249
00:31:48,364 --> 00:31:50,074
[crowd cheering]

250
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:52,410
[♪ upbeat music playing]

251
00:31:52,493 --> 00:31:54,871
[crowd cheering]

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[Martínez] <i>At the Nippon-Ham Fighters,</i>
<i>Shohei broke boundaries and records</i>

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<i>in hopes of one day making it
to the majors.</i>

254
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{\an8}[bird chirping]

255
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:25,526
{\an8}He must have been really, uh, confident.

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Normally, you don't…

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00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,781
you don't know what's going to happen.

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00:32:29,864 --> 00:32:31,240
You're not confident.

259
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:34,577
You can dream about it
and chase your dream.

260
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:37,705
But I guess Shohei was unique

261
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every time he thought about
what he wanted to do

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because sometimes we want it.

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Yes, we want it,

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but not all the time we get it.

265
00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:50,885
Hmm…

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{\an8}[chuckles]

267
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I don't know what it feels like to be him.

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He's the first guy to do what he's doing.

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I was trying to convince the Cubs
that we could do it

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in a National League setting,

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you know, where… that he can both pitch
and play the outfield,

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which you would have had to have done
to do that.

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[Joe] A lot of people were just skeptical
of all that stuff.

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I don't know.
I mean, here's a guy that came here

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for a specific reason
and everybody had spoken with,

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talks about him being one
of the best players they've ever seen.

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So my, as a manager of the Cubs
at that time,

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my evaluation process
was how do we get them,

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get them to do both things
in the National League.

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He signed up for a reason.
This is what he does.

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And he could pitch and also hit.

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Everybody was shying away from that.

283
00:35:46,310 --> 00:35:49,105
I didn't want… I didn't get it.
Quite frankly, I didn't get it.

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Everybody was willing to at least explore
the idea of allowing him to do both.

285
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{\an8}Because it's not like
he hasn't done it before.

286
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He was successful in Japan doing both.

287
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{\an8}He had the ability to and we were going
to let him try to be a two-way player.

288
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And I think that was important to Shohei.

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How did Shohei…

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How did he make the decision?

291
00:37:40,508 --> 00:37:41,944
[Balelo] <i>You know
why did he choose the Angels?</i>

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I don't know.
You're going to have to ask Shohei that.

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{\an8}[murmurs]

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00:37:58,484 --> 00:38:02,321
You'll have to talk to Shohei.
He has that answer.

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In our meetings with Shohei, with Nez, um,

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we were very upfront, very honest,
and what we felt about Shohei,

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we absolutely felt
that he was a two-way player,

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or I'm not sure if other teams
had that in mind or not.

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I really couldn't answer that.

300
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You know,
Shohei has been asked that question,

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and his answer is, "I just felt it.

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You know, I just felt like
it was the right place for me."

303
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And he felt comfortable.

304
00:40:27,049 --> 00:40:28,676
Um… good people.

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Good location.
You know, maybe the right division.

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You know, there's all kinds of things.

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But at the end of the day,
he was open to playing on the East Coast.

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He was open to playing
in the middle of the country.

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He was open to playing on the West Coast.

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And, um, I can honestly say that
he really was,

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because when you think about the teams
that he ended up narrowing it down to…

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half were NL teams and half were AL teams.

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00:41:00,332 --> 00:41:04,503
Actually, it was more on NL
than there was on the AL side, I believe.

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So, um…

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And that was before the DH rule.

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So an NL team that was going to get Shohei
would be looking at him as a pinch hitter

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and allowing him to hit while he pitched.

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He was gonna be limited at that point,

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unless he picked up a glove,
went to the outfield,

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or maybe went to first base.

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So that was something an NL team
was going to have to juggle a little bit,

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knowing that the DH rule
was possibly coming.

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And eventually it did.

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[♪ light upbeat music playing]

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[Martínez] <i>After five years in Japan,</i>

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<i>Shohei finally decided to come to the US.</i>

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<i>He had chosen the Los Angeles Angels.</i>

328
00:42:03,270 --> 00:42:05,731
[♪ upbeat music intensifies]

329
00:42:23,499 --> 00:42:27,711
{\an8}Thank you very much.
And, uh, Shohei, welcome.

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{\an8}Thank you.

331
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[crowd cheering, clapping]

332
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,760
[crowd cheering]

333
00:42:39,181 --> 00:42:41,475
[in English]
Hi. My name is Shohei Ohtani.

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[crowd cheering]

335
00:42:45,020 --> 00:42:46,438
He's 23 years old.

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00:42:46,981 --> 00:42:48,301
So there's a lot of growth there,

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both on the physical side,
on the mental side,

338
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:53,696
and on his baseball side…

339
00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:58,742
He struggled his first spring training
in 2018, really struggled.

340
00:42:58,826 --> 00:43:03,581
[Balelo] Uh, what he does is
very difficult and challenging.

341
00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:06,500
But it was Shohei was the one saying,

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"I'm going to go ahead
and play this thing out." And he did.

343
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:09,730
[♪ hopeful music playing]

344
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:12,066
It's hard to play Major League Baseball,
right?

345
00:44:12,149 --> 00:44:14,234
But it's even harder
when you come to a foreign land

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and don't know the language

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00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:17,529
and you're trying to navigate
all of that stuff.

348
00:44:17,613 --> 00:44:19,174
[CC Sabathia]
You have to give these guys credit.

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The guys from the DR,

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the guys from the Asian countries
that come over here

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and can perform at a high level
in a foreign place

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without knowing the language

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00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:30,918
and really understanding, you know,
things, the first couple of years.

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00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:34,088
Like even my transition
from coming from Vallejo, California,

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to, you know, on these big stages,

356
00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:38,095
whether it was Cleveland,
Milwaukee or New York.

357
00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:40,219
It was a hard transition.
You know what I'm saying?

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00:44:40,302 --> 00:44:42,805
It's a hard thing to get used to.

359
00:44:42,888 --> 00:44:45,474
And for us as teammates,
you have to have sympathy

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00:44:45,557 --> 00:44:47,518
and understand what these guys
are going through

361
00:44:47,601 --> 00:44:51,480
and try to help out as much as you can
to help our team win.

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00:44:52,815 --> 00:44:57,444
When you come from a totally different
culture, totally different league,

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and you have to come over,

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00:44:58,737 --> 00:45:00,239
it's a daunting task.

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00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:03,325
There's always a question of,
you know, "Can I do this?",

366
00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:04,952
no matter how talented you are.

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00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:06,537
He's a non-roster guy at this point.

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00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:08,455
Remember,
he signed a minor league contract

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because he came out early from Japan,

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00:45:11,125 --> 00:45:16,296
so they could have easily sent him
to Triple-A to go find himself.

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00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:56,587
A lot of people doubted him.

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00:45:56,670 --> 00:45:58,773
There were a lot of media.
There were a lot of people.

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A lot of industry people that said,
"Wait a second, he's not getting it done."

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00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:08,182
On their first take and their first
glimpse of him in spring training in 2018

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00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,643
when he had that first opportunity
to start in Oakland.

376
00:46:11,727 --> 00:46:13,937
[clicks tongue]
We saw Shohei Ohtani.

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00:46:14,021 --> 00:46:16,148
[♪ electronic music playing]

378
00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:21,403
[crowd cheering, clapping]

379
00:46:22,237 --> 00:46:24,406
[commentator 1]
<i>Now the one, two. Swing and a miss.</i>

380
00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:26,325
<i>Down goes Semien, one down.</i>

381
00:46:27,868 --> 00:46:30,472
[commentator 2] <i>But that's how good.</i>
<i>And I'm sure Xavi is very impressed now.</i>

382
00:46:30,496 --> 00:46:34,625
<i>So Ohtani goes after the first pitch
he sees as a major leaguer,</i>

383
00:46:34,708 --> 00:46:37,044
<i>and he's got himself a base hit.</i>

384
00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:38,754
<i>So Shohei Ohtani does not…</i>

385
00:46:38,837 --> 00:46:41,715
We wouldn't have maybe
had that opportunity

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00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:44,134
if he was with a different organization…

387
00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:48,472
that said, "You know what,
he needs a little more seasoning."

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00:46:49,056 --> 00:46:50,616
[Balelo] You know, the rest is history.

389
00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,643
[♪ suspenseful music playing]

390
00:46:56,855 --> 00:46:59,191
[crowd cheering]

391
00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:08,968
[CC Sabathia]
If he comes to the New York Yankees

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00:47:08,992 --> 00:47:09,993
and we're in Tampa,

393
00:47:10,077 --> 00:47:13,288
and he struggles as a hitter
that first year in spring training,

394
00:47:13,372 --> 00:47:16,625
they immediately just put him on the mound
and like, "Hey, you're just a pitcher.

395
00:47:16,708 --> 00:47:18,544
You know, the bat doesn't play here,

396
00:47:18,627 --> 00:47:20,467
and we're just going to keep you
on the mound."

397
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:25,425
Him going to Anaheim and, you know,
not being a huge, huge media presence

398
00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:29,596
and him being able to like, you know,
figure out his swing over here

399
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,306
and kind of get rid of the leg kick

400
00:47:31,390 --> 00:47:33,934
and just, you know, go from,
you know, just with the heel,

401
00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:35,811
like kind of like the little heel tap,

402
00:47:35,894 --> 00:47:37,354
I think that helped out big time.

403
00:47:37,437 --> 00:47:41,567
And, you know, his developing and being
able to turn into what he's turned into,

404
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:42,693
which is what I think is,

405
00:47:42,776 --> 00:47:45,153
you know, probably one of the best
baseball players ever.

406
00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:48,156
I think those decisions
have set him on that course.

407
00:47:48,782 --> 00:47:51,076
{\an8}[birds chirping]

408
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:55,289
{\an8}I just think we saw the talent.

409
00:47:55,372 --> 00:47:57,833
Shohei didn't really need
any major overhauls.

410
00:47:57,916 --> 00:48:01,712
And I think the biggest thing was
we didn't want to put too much on him

411
00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:03,380
until he felt comfortable.

412
00:48:03,463 --> 00:48:07,009
Shohei evolved the way you would expect
a young player to evolve.

413
00:48:07,092 --> 00:48:09,386
He just didn't go from here to here.

414
00:48:09,469 --> 00:48:12,389
He went from here to here
and will continue to grow.

415
00:48:58,018 --> 00:49:03,941
And it's easy for people
to maybe look at this and possibly,

416
00:49:04,608 --> 00:49:05,651
um…

417
00:49:06,652 --> 00:49:11,156
criticized the decision because he hasn't
been in the postseason in five years.

418
00:49:11,531 --> 00:49:13,867
But, you know, things happen for reasons.

419
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:16,119
And I believe that…

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00:49:17,663 --> 00:49:21,083
his choice was the right choice
at the time,

421
00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:23,961
and it could be the right choice
for the rest of his career.

422
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:27,714
And if you're not in the right clubhouse
or in the right organization,

423
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:31,551
it could be, you know, um,
not a great experience.

424
00:49:57,035 --> 00:50:02,124
I struggled to be who I was in baseball.

425
00:50:03,291 --> 00:50:04,459
And, uh…

426
00:50:06,545 --> 00:50:10,507
I can only tell you
that my dream was unexpected.

427
00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:16,304
At the time I came up,
there were a lot of doubts.

428
00:50:17,556 --> 00:50:21,435
And I couldn't help
but to second-guess myself,

429
00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:25,772
my height, my size, my abilities.

430
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,983
Based on what others said,

431
00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:34,197
I became a little bit shy, uh,

432
00:50:34,614 --> 00:50:38,160
I became less confident.

433
00:50:39,411 --> 00:50:41,872
I… I was humbled by the game,

434
00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:44,374
I was humbled by other people,

435
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,172
but I… I never let go of my dream.

436
00:50:50,255 --> 00:50:53,175
That was the biggest thing I ever did,

437
00:50:54,092 --> 00:50:56,428
was to never quit.

438
00:50:57,304 --> 00:51:00,474
And I was close and I thought about it,

439
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:02,726
but I'm glad I didn't.

440
00:51:04,227 --> 00:51:06,146
[sucks teeth]
Hm…

441
00:51:21,078 --> 00:51:22,120
{\an8}[clears throat]

442
00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:45,685
Coming from where I came from,
I grew up where I played baseball.

443
00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:47,020
It was nothing but Black kids.

444
00:51:47,104 --> 00:51:48,748
I mean, we played,
we were really good too.

445
00:51:48,772 --> 00:51:49,940
We played at a high level,

446
00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:52,859
but there was only people
that looked like me,

447
00:51:52,943 --> 00:51:54,277
and I get to the minor leagues

448
00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:56,780
and there's nobody on my team
that looked like me.

449
00:51:56,863 --> 00:51:59,241
And as I even go up even higher,

450
00:51:59,324 --> 00:52:01,952
then there's nobody even around
that looks like me, you know?

451
00:52:02,035 --> 00:52:05,789
So, yeah, I mean, it's tough
and I speak the language,

452
00:52:05,872 --> 00:52:08,458
so I can only imagine coming here
from the DR

453
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:14,673
or coming here from Japan or Korea
and trying to fit in and play baseball.

454
00:52:14,756 --> 00:52:17,425
Like it's… it's-it's pretty rough.
It's pretty hard.

455
00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:20,303
So the fact that
we have the translators now,

456
00:52:20,387 --> 00:52:23,890
we have the different things in place
that can help, you know, um,

457
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:27,561
guys throughout the minor leagues
and even in the big leagues,

458
00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:30,063
I think it's a big change in baseball,

459
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,787
and from what I've seen in the 25 years
that I've been in the game.

460
00:52:37,112 --> 00:52:38,196
{\an8}[sighs]

461
00:53:46,473 --> 00:53:48,767
[commentator 1]
<i>Heads out toward the right-center field.</i>

462
00:53:49,267 --> 00:53:51,144
<i>Going back on it is Zimmer.</i>

463
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:54,064
{\an8}-<i>At the wall, goal!</i>
- [crowd cheering]

464
00:53:54,147 --> 00:53:55,899
{\an8}<i>Big fly, Ohtani-san!</i>

465
00:53:55,982 --> 00:54:00,904
{\an8}[commentator 2] <i>Shohei Ohtani!</i>
<i>His first major league home run!</i>

466
00:54:00,987 --> 00:54:03,490
{\an8}[crowd cheering]

467
00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:05,700
[♪ uplifting music playing]

468
00:54:36,314 --> 00:54:38,358
[commentator 1]
<i>We felt something magical tonight.</i>

469
00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,318
<i>He showed it on Sunday.</i>
[chuckles]

470
00:54:43,947 --> 00:54:45,073
Uh…

471
00:55:07,846 --> 00:55:08,847
[Shohei sucks teeth]

472
00:55:51,056 --> 00:55:54,434
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

473
00:56:23,505 --> 00:56:25,298
But I think when it's your dream

474
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:28,259
and it's something
that you've been striving for

475
00:56:28,343 --> 00:56:31,221
and it's your goal, um,
in your mind you're ready.

476
00:56:31,304 --> 00:56:32,305
You know what I mean?

477
00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:35,975
So you just, you're gonna take on
any challenge that comes with, you know,

478
00:56:36,059 --> 00:56:38,186
your dream of being
the best baseball player,

479
00:56:38,269 --> 00:56:39,646
you know, that you can be.

480
00:56:39,729 --> 00:56:41,606
[♪ light music playing]

481
00:56:43,316 --> 00:56:44,692
[Martínez] <i>Even then,</i>

482
00:56:44,776 --> 00:56:51,408
<i>Shohei's path in the majors
was filled with twists and turns.</i>

483
00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:53,636
[commentator 1]
<i>Aberdeen shortstop position to win.</i>

484
00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:55,620
- <i>Omar Vizquel got...</i>
- [screams]

485
00:56:55,703 --> 00:56:56,931
[commentator 2] <i>Got him in the elbow.</i>

486
00:56:56,955 --> 00:56:58,557
[commentator 1]
<i>He is a right-handed thrower</i>

487
00:56:58,581 --> 00:56:59,833
<i>and is a left-handed batter.</i>

488
00:56:59,916 --> 00:57:03,044
<i>You expose that throwing arm
to a pitch inside.</i>

489
00:57:03,586 --> 00:57:06,214
[commentator 3]
<i>That's it for Ohtani, 66 pitches tonight.</i>

490
00:57:08,508 --> 00:57:11,261
I didn't get to experience
his great pitching

491
00:57:11,344 --> 00:57:13,096
because he hurt his arm his first year.

492
00:57:13,179 --> 00:57:17,100
And it happened pretty quickly in a game
where all of a sudden his velocity dropped

493
00:57:17,183 --> 00:57:21,020
and didn't show a lot of pain,
but the ball wasn't coming out of his hand

494
00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:25,525
and it didn't take long
for the diagnosis to come

495
00:57:25,608 --> 00:57:28,069
that he needed Tommy John surgery.

496
00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:30,447
But he still, he still wanted to hit,

497
00:57:30,530 --> 00:57:34,325
and, um, he hit up
until almost the end of the season.

498
00:57:34,409 --> 00:57:38,037
Shohei was the one saying,
"I'm not getting this surgery yet.

499
00:57:38,121 --> 00:57:40,915
I'm gonna go ahead
and play this thing out." And he did.

500
00:57:40,999 --> 00:57:42,167
And he had a big month,

501
00:57:42,250 --> 00:57:46,087
and it could have made the difference,
uh, to be rookie of the year.

502
00:57:46,963 --> 00:57:49,424
{\an8}[in English]
To all the Angles fans, thank you.

503
00:57:51,301 --> 00:57:57,307
{\an8}Hopefully I will not need this cheat sheet
the next time I'm up here.

504
00:57:57,390 --> 00:57:58,475
Thank you.

505
00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:01,060
- [audience clapping]
- [♪ uplifting music playing]

506
00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:07,358
[Balelo] And that tells you a lot
about his character

507
00:58:07,442 --> 00:58:10,111
and his drive
and his passion wanting to play

508
00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:12,822
and see the year through.

509
00:58:12,906 --> 00:58:14,407
And it was the right decision.

510
00:58:15,116 --> 00:58:20,622
There's gonna be moments where his body
is not going to respond like he wants.

511
00:58:21,247 --> 00:58:23,625
You can have perfect mindset.

512
00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:26,836
You can have perfect mechanics,

513
00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:31,925
but there are days where your body
just says no, you cannot execute,

514
00:58:32,008 --> 00:58:36,930
fastball in, fastball away,
slider or changeup.

515
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:38,598
{\an8}[commentator] <i>Look at this.</i>

516
00:58:38,681 --> 00:58:42,143
{\an8}<i>This is a guy that used to throw 98</i>
<i>to 100 miles an hour.</i>

517
00:58:42,227 --> 00:58:45,021
{\an8}<i>And these are the baby steps</i>
<i>that you don't see</i>

518
00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:47,065
{\an8}<i>and we don't see as fans.</i>

519
00:58:47,148 --> 00:58:49,192
{\an8}<i>We're saying,</i>
<i>"Well, the guy had Tommy John</i>

520
00:58:49,275 --> 00:58:50,902
{\an8}<i>and he'll be back by July and August."</i>

521
00:58:50,985 --> 00:58:55,740
{\an8}<i>I mean, it's amazing to watch this guy</i>
<i>from like, what, 15 or 20 feet</i>

522
00:58:55,823 --> 00:58:57,423
{\an8}-<i>tossing that baseball.</i>
- [machine clunks]

523
00:59:01,746 --> 00:59:05,166
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

524
00:59:12,423 --> 00:59:13,591
{\an8}[sucks teeth]

525
00:59:31,234 --> 00:59:34,779
I mean, 2020, let's just call it
was a very rough year in general.

526
00:59:35,321 --> 00:59:39,409
And when you take a player
out of his routine in his element,

527
00:59:39,492 --> 00:59:41,703
it's tough to be successful.

528
00:59:41,786 --> 00:59:47,208
So 20 was a rough year,
and that was Joe's first taste of Shohei.

529
00:59:48,042 --> 00:59:49,877
{\an8}In 2020,
because there was a lot of issues,

530
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:53,047
{\an8}he had coming off injuries
and he wasn't quite the same.

531
00:59:53,131 --> 00:59:56,467
But 2021, um, it was, it became more…

532
00:59:56,551 --> 00:59:59,012
[clicks tongue]
…galvanized through our conversations,

533
00:59:59,095 --> 01:00:00,221
how we're gonna do this.

534
01:00:00,305 --> 01:00:02,185
- And it worked out pretty well.
- [machine thuds]

535
01:00:46,684 --> 01:00:47,810
{\an8}[chuckles nervously]

536
01:01:26,140 --> 01:01:27,183
{\an8}[chuckles nervously]

537
01:01:27,892 --> 01:01:30,895
Quite frankly, Sho,
I never doubted that you could.

538
01:01:31,771 --> 01:01:32,772
[Joe] <i>I didn't, um…</i>

539
01:01:33,564 --> 01:01:36,150
<i>Uh, when he came back,
2021 spring training,</i>

540
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:37,735
<i>was a totally different player.</i>

541
01:01:37,819 --> 01:01:40,196
I mean, I'd seen him in 2020.
Things weren't quite right.

542
01:01:40,279 --> 01:01:43,032
His hitting was off.
His throwing off was off.

543
01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:44,575
His throwing motion was off.

544
01:01:44,951 --> 01:01:47,221
But he came here for a reason.
You came here for a reason.

545
01:01:47,245 --> 01:01:50,873
<i>So for me, it was my responsibility
to make this work.</i>

546
01:01:50,957 --> 01:01:54,335
There was never any doubt, um,

547
01:01:54,419 --> 01:01:56,462
about wanting to do it
from my perspective,

548
01:01:56,546 --> 01:02:00,258
<i>I thought I had to convince other people
to give it an opportunity or try.</i>

549
01:02:00,842 --> 01:02:03,553
So Sho, for me, absolutely,

550
01:02:03,636 --> 01:02:06,973
everything I said to you
was from my heart, always will be,

551
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:10,309
and I thought you can do it
and of course you have.

552
01:02:27,410 --> 01:02:30,455
{\an8}[Shohei on recording]

553
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:56,481
Uh…

554
01:03:08,451 --> 01:03:11,621
The fact that he thought we were there
to tell him or ask him to not do that,

555
01:03:12,079 --> 01:03:16,042
um, I guess I am surprised
because that's the reason,

556
01:03:16,125 --> 01:03:19,670
that's the point about asking questions
or having conversations.

557
01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:23,841
Sometimes you have the absolute wrong idea
or impression

558
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:25,301
of what somebody's thinking.

559
01:03:25,384 --> 01:03:30,473
But it tells you the type of person
Shohei is, extremely humbled.

560
01:03:30,556 --> 01:03:34,685
Like what are they coming in to tell me
when they're thinking,

561
01:03:34,769 --> 01:03:38,898
okay, we need you to be this guy
and do both

562
01:03:38,981 --> 01:03:40,483
and go out and run with it.

563
01:03:40,566 --> 01:03:42,294
But he's thinking,
are they gonna shut it down?

564
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:44,195
Are they gonna just shut me down
on doing both?

565
01:03:44,278 --> 01:03:48,741
So, I love the humbled approach by Shohei,
but clearly that was never mentioned.

566
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:50,618
It was never even a thought,

567
01:03:50,701 --> 01:03:53,871
and, um, oh, maybe it was one
of their thoughts,

568
01:03:53,955 --> 01:03:55,275
but it was never expressed to me.

569
01:03:55,331 --> 01:04:00,044
Um, but yeah, they did just take off
all the restrictions

570
01:04:00,127 --> 01:04:01,379
and the restrictions were…

571
01:04:03,172 --> 01:04:06,050
you know, certain rest days, pitch counts,
you know,

572
01:04:06,133 --> 01:04:10,596
there were a lot of things
that days off after before, you know,

573
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,473
it was just, it was just too much.

574
01:04:13,224 --> 01:04:14,350
[Balelo] It was simply put,

575
01:04:15,768 --> 01:04:17,996
- Shohei is gonna do what he's gonna do.
- [crowd cheering]

576
01:04:18,020 --> 01:04:23,234
We ask one thing, communicate with Joe.
Joe communicate with Shohei.

577
01:04:23,317 --> 01:04:26,195
If he's tired, he'll tell you he's tired.
He needs a day.

578
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:30,283
If not, let him go. Let him out there.
That's what they did.

579
01:04:32,076 --> 01:04:33,619
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

580
01:04:46,465 --> 01:04:48,801
[inhales sharply, grunts]

581
01:04:49,677 --> 01:04:52,013
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

582
01:05:43,105 --> 01:05:45,316
[Joe] He observes everything.

583
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:48,778
He weighs everything
that comes in his direction.

584
01:05:48,861 --> 01:05:53,407
So as a manager, you better understand
from the beginning, um,

585
01:05:53,491 --> 01:05:54,784
he's not gonna come.

586
01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:57,495
He's never gonna be disrespectful, ever.

587
01:05:57,578 --> 01:06:02,333
Uh, but everything you say to him,
he's gonna take it in and evaluate it.

588
01:06:02,541 --> 01:06:03,626
Um…

589
01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:10,549
And again, always with due respect
to whomever, it's whoever his manager is,

590
01:06:10,633 --> 01:06:13,135
and I'm here to tell you,
I don't even know if he'd admit it.

591
01:06:13,219 --> 01:06:17,139
There's times he absolutely disagreed
with whether it was me or somebody else.

592
01:06:17,223 --> 01:06:19,976
But he'll keep it to himself.
He listens to everything.

593
01:06:20,059 --> 01:06:23,270
He sees everything
just like he does in the game of baseball.

594
01:06:23,354 --> 01:06:24,730
He takes it all in.

595
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:28,442
He never speaks too quickly.
He never speaks fast.

596
01:06:28,526 --> 01:06:32,321
It's very, I'm not, the word,
it's not guarded, it's evaluated.

597
01:06:32,405 --> 01:06:34,407
Everything he does is evaluated.

598
01:06:35,950 --> 01:06:38,828
[Balelo] That's the way he operates.
He looks at everything.

599
01:06:39,495 --> 01:06:43,874
If there's nine negative things
and then there's that one positive,

600
01:06:43,958 --> 01:06:46,043
he's looking at that positive
and running with it

601
01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:49,714
and trying to make the most of that
to offset the other nine negative.

602
01:06:49,797 --> 01:06:51,215
Here's the real question.

603
01:06:52,049 --> 01:06:54,969
If Shohei did not like
any of his managers,

604
01:06:55,761 --> 01:06:58,931
the question is
would he say anything about it?

605
01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:01,058
I don't think so.

606
01:07:01,809 --> 01:07:04,061
[commentator] <i>…go nuts if he goes deep.</i>

607
01:07:04,145 --> 01:07:05,980
<i>We felt something magical tonight.</i>

608
01:07:06,063 --> 01:07:08,274
<i>He showed it on Sunday.</i>

609
01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:10,443
[crowd cheering]

610
01:07:10,526 --> 01:07:13,571
<i>Amazing. Absolutely amazing.</i>

611
01:07:15,322 --> 01:07:16,449
[commentator laughs]

612
01:07:16,532 --> 01:07:19,035
[Balelo] Because the thing
that Shohei does best…

613
01:07:20,661 --> 01:07:24,415
is enjoys the game like he loves the game,

614
01:07:24,498 --> 01:07:27,418
and he plays it with tremendous passion,

615
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:29,336
and I never want
to take that away from him.

616
01:07:29,420 --> 01:07:31,547
I don't want anything
to get in the middle of that.

617
01:07:37,928 --> 01:07:38,929
Hmm…

618
01:07:55,071 --> 01:07:57,073
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

619
01:08:32,691 --> 01:08:33,692
Hmm.

620
01:08:41,158 --> 01:08:43,202
Yeah, I wasn't like Shohei.
[chuckles]

621
01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:48,040
And I appreciate him, um,
you know, sacrificing his life

622
01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:49,708
to give us a great show.

623
01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:51,961
You know what I mean? I appreciate that.

624
01:08:52,044 --> 01:08:54,064
[CC Sabathia] But if you looked at me
during my career,

625
01:08:54,088 --> 01:08:56,340
you can see I was always thinking
about other stuff.

626
01:08:56,423 --> 01:09:00,594
[chuckles]
Baseball was just something that I did,

627
01:09:00,678 --> 01:09:03,389
and I was really good at
and I loved to do,

628
01:09:03,472 --> 01:09:05,391
but it wasn't kind of who I was, you know?

629
01:09:05,474 --> 01:09:08,435
I mean, me and my wife
got married really young.

630
01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:10,646
I had kids really early

631
01:09:10,729 --> 01:09:14,400
and that… those distractions
helped me be a great baseball player.

632
01:09:14,483 --> 01:09:17,653
Like me having a life outside of baseball
really helped me

633
01:09:17,736 --> 01:09:19,947
because if I would have just locked in
on baseball,

634
01:09:20,030 --> 01:09:23,242
this is one thing like I'm too obsessive

635
01:09:23,325 --> 01:09:25,578
and I would have,
I wouldn't have last very long.

636
01:09:25,661 --> 01:09:26,662
I would have burnt out.

637
01:09:26,745 --> 01:09:30,124
So having my wife, having kids,
having other things

638
01:09:30,207 --> 01:09:33,377
that I'm super interested in
outside of baseball,

639
01:09:33,460 --> 01:09:35,421
that helped me be a great player.

640
01:10:14,752 --> 01:10:16,754
{\an8}[Darvish in Japanese]

641
01:11:51,307 --> 01:11:53,309
[♪ pensive music playing]

642
01:11:55,060 --> 01:12:00,024
[Martínez] <i>Despite all the hardships,</i>
<i>Shohei persevered.</i>

643
01:12:00,858 --> 01:12:01,942
[machine clunks]

644
01:12:04,486 --> 01:12:07,281
[commentator 1] <i>Got it, got it, got it!</i>

645
01:12:07,364 --> 01:12:09,450
[commentator 2]
<i>Oh, wow, where did that one go?</i>

646
01:12:09,533 --> 01:12:10,868
[crowd screaming]

647
01:12:11,618 --> 01:12:14,330
[commentator 1] <i>Oh, he's gonna get to jog
around the bases!</i>

648
01:12:14,413 --> 01:12:17,249
[♪ upbeat music playing,
Tainy x Bad Bunny "Mojabi Ghost"]

649
01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:23,922
<i>That's what is, gone!</i>

650
01:12:24,006 --> 01:12:25,257
<i>He did it again!</i>

651
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:27,861
- [commentator 2] <i>They knew it off the bat.</i>
- [commentator 1] <i>Wow!</i>

652
01:12:27,885 --> 01:12:30,262
<i>He's a beast!</i>
[commentator 1 laughs]

653
01:12:36,602 --> 01:12:39,271
<i>He gets it done, wow!</i>

654
01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:41,715
- [commentator 2] <i>That's gorgeous.</i>
- [commentator 1] <i>Oh, yeah.</i>

655
01:12:43,692 --> 01:12:49,823
[commentator 1] <i>Did he get it?
Did he get it? He did, wow!</i>

656
01:12:51,033 --> 01:12:52,951
[commentator 2 laughs]
<i>Oh, my!</i>

657
01:12:53,035 --> 01:12:54,078
<i>He did it!</i>

658
01:12:54,161 --> 01:12:56,663
[commentator 3] <i>Throw him the crown.
AL Player of the month.</i>

659
01:12:56,747 --> 01:12:58,832
[commentator 4] <i>It is Shotime!</i>

660
01:12:59,917 --> 01:13:06,048
{\an8}[announcer] <i>The 2021 American League's</i>
<i>Most Valuable Player, number 17,</i>

661
01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:08,717
{\an8}<i>Shohei Ohtani.</i>

662
01:13:08,801 --> 01:13:10,636
[Martínez] <i>In 2021,</i>

663
01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:16,016
<i>he unanimously won
the American League MVP award,</i>

664
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,478
<i>the following year, he was runner up.</i>

665
01:13:20,521 --> 01:13:24,983
<i>He became one of the best players
in all of Major League Baseball.</i>

666
01:13:25,067 --> 01:13:26,235
[Joe] Shohei is a pitcher,

667
01:13:26,318 --> 01:13:29,780
makes hitters look really bad
based on command and movement,

668
01:13:29,863 --> 01:13:31,023
and he knows what he's doing.

669
01:13:31,073 --> 01:13:33,700
He's always creating out there
in that blink moment

670
01:13:33,784 --> 01:13:37,204
to make an adjustment,
react without even thinking

671
01:13:37,287 --> 01:13:38,956
and just do the right things.

672
01:13:39,039 --> 01:13:41,750
His baseball acumen
is as high as I've been around.

673
01:13:43,544 --> 01:13:46,004
Shohei Ohtani and Yu Darvish

674
01:13:46,088 --> 01:13:49,508
are so similar in so many things
that they do,

675
01:13:49,591 --> 01:13:54,805
both as a person and a human being
and then as a pitcher and as an artist.

676
01:14:13,407 --> 01:14:14,491
{\an8}[inhales sharply]

677
01:14:41,310 --> 01:14:42,728
Shohei is fearless,

678
01:14:43,812 --> 01:14:47,733
but the psychology part
of the other players is really important,

679
01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:50,194
and you have
to really pay attention to it.

680
01:14:51,403 --> 01:14:53,822
And that, that is the only part…

681
01:14:55,532 --> 01:14:58,619
that he's gonna have to learn as he goes.

682
01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:06,960
Pitching movement on the pitches
is a God-given talent for him.

683
01:15:07,794 --> 01:15:10,672
It's… It's also something you can work on.

684
01:15:11,632 --> 01:15:16,970
But understanding what the other athlete
is trying to do against you

685
01:15:17,721 --> 01:15:18,805
is critical.

686
01:15:19,431 --> 01:15:22,976
And I think that's the only part
that Shohei is going to have to leave

687
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,562
to understand in the game.

688
01:16:35,799 --> 01:16:37,676
[♪ lively music playing]

689
01:16:37,759 --> 01:16:40,387
[Martínez] <i>In 2023, Shohei wrote…</i>

690
01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:44,933
<i>a new chapter in his story.</i>

691
01:16:47,603 --> 01:16:51,481
Team Japan finished in third place
in the last two tournaments.

692
01:16:51,565 --> 01:16:53,358
Guys, they always come in prepared.

693
01:16:53,442 --> 01:16:57,070
{\an8}They won the inaugural and second WBC.

694
01:16:57,154 --> 01:16:59,448
{\an8}So let's take a look at their roster.

695
01:16:59,531 --> 01:17:01,533
{\an8}This rotation highlighted by Shohei.

696
01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:02,760
[newsreader]
<i>Actually on Samurai Japan and…</i>

697
01:17:02,784 --> 01:17:06,038
<i>and that's a really important part
of Japanese baseball culture</i>

698
01:17:06,121 --> 01:17:07,331
<i>is the national team.</i>

699
01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:10,542
<i>It's the national team up here
and your club team is below that.</i>

700
01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:13,337
<i>And so that's why there is continual play
with the national team.</i>

701
01:17:13,420 --> 01:17:17,090
<i>It'd be as if we had Team USA
playing in tournaments every single year.</i>

702
01:17:17,174 --> 01:17:20,385
<i>It's that important
in the Japanese baseball consciousness.</i>

703
01:17:20,469 --> 01:17:23,389
{\an8}<i>As a result, I think you're gonna see him
be very comfortable this spring.</i>

704
01:17:55,087 --> 01:17:56,380
{\an8}[Darvish chuckles]

705
01:18:42,134 --> 01:18:44,094
[chuckles]

706
01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:51,935
[commentator 1] <i>Shohei Ohtani second
start here in the World Baseball Classic.</i>

707
01:18:52,018 --> 01:18:55,439
[commentator 2]
<i>Some filth off the table for strike three.</i>

708
01:18:55,522 --> 01:19:00,110
[commentator 3] <i>He strikes out swing here
against Ohtani and 102.</i>

709
01:19:00,193 --> 01:19:02,028
[commentator 4] <i>One win away
from playing for</i>

710
01:19:02,112 --> 01:19:04,197
<i>a World Baseball Classic championship.</i>

711
01:19:04,281 --> 01:19:07,451
<i>Here we go. Ohtani rips a piece
into the right side of the field.</i>

712
01:19:07,534 --> 01:19:09,202
<i>He ended the gap.</i>

713
01:19:09,286 --> 01:19:10,495
[crowd cheering]

714
01:19:10,579 --> 01:19:12,581
<i>Cut off by Thomas in center field.</i>

715
01:19:12,664 --> 01:19:15,917
<i>Ohtani steps in second
in the lead on double.</i>

716
01:19:16,835 --> 01:19:21,339
[commentator 5] <i>The fans behind the dugout
chanting "MVP. MVP."</i>

717
01:19:21,423 --> 01:19:23,258
[commentator 6]
<i>Mike Trout, oh, my goodness.</i>

718
01:19:23,341 --> 01:19:28,472
<i>Trout's gonna stop at second.
Oh, my goodness. What a clinic.</i>

719
01:19:28,555 --> 01:19:32,517
<i>The two biggest stars in the world
are gonna lead their teams on the field.</i>

720
01:19:32,601 --> 01:19:34,978
<i>Mike Trout and Team USA.</i>

721
01:19:35,187 --> 01:19:38,565
<i>Shohei Ohtani and Team Japan.</i>

722
01:19:53,538 --> 01:19:55,540
[birds chirping]

723
01:20:08,762 --> 01:20:10,764
[♪ suspenseful music playing]

724
01:20:25,612 --> 01:20:27,948
[♪ suspenseful music intensifies]

725
01:20:40,210 --> 01:20:42,671
[crowd cheering]

726
01:20:45,549 --> 01:20:47,676
[commentator]
<i>They've been teammates for five years.</i>

727
01:20:47,759 --> 01:20:50,178
<i>The best against the best.</i>

728
01:20:51,054 --> 01:20:53,139
<i>The matchup we've all been wanting to see.</i>

729
01:20:53,223 --> 01:20:55,934
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

730
01:21:07,279 --> 01:21:10,615
[commentator]
<i>First time they'd ever faced each other.</i>

731
01:21:11,700 --> 01:21:13,410
<i>Baseball wins tonight.</i>

732
01:21:14,327 --> 01:21:18,039
<i>Here's the pitch and the dirt and 102.</i>

733
01:21:18,707 --> 01:21:21,960
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

734
01:21:35,181 --> 01:21:37,434
[commentator]
<i>The final strike in the ninth inning.</i>

735
01:21:38,435 --> 01:21:40,395
<i>Looking for heroics.</i>

736
01:21:40,979 --> 01:21:42,689
<i>Three and two from Ohtani.</i>

737
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:47,152
<i>He throws, Trout strikes out. Swinging.</i>

738
01:21:47,235 --> 01:21:49,863
[crowd cheering]

739
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,329
<i>Ohtani and Japan.</i>

740
01:21:58,663 --> 01:22:02,125
<i>Celebrate a World Baseball Classic
championship.</i>

741
01:22:04,127 --> 01:22:05,962
<i>What an ending…</i>

742
01:22:07,547 --> 01:22:09,507
<i>to an all-time tournament.</i>

743
01:22:10,926 --> 01:22:12,010
<i>What a game.</i>

744
01:23:18,159 --> 01:23:21,204
[♪ emotional music playing]

745
01:23:23,581 --> 01:23:24,582
[thunderous crack]

746
01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:28,670
[whooshes]

747
01:23:40,807 --> 01:23:42,892
[crowd cheering]

748
01:23:45,937 --> 01:23:48,064
[Martínez] <i>At the World Baseball Classic,</i>

749
01:23:48,523 --> 01:23:51,109
<i>Shohei achieved his dream</i>

750
01:23:51,568 --> 01:23:57,240
<i>of becoming one of the greatest
baseball players in the world.</i>

751
01:23:58,783 --> 01:24:00,952
[♪ ambient music playing]

752
01:24:04,831 --> 01:24:05,957
[clunks]

753
01:24:06,041 --> 01:24:07,375
[crowd cheering]

754
01:24:07,459 --> 01:24:11,713
<i>Now that Shohei has won the WBC,</i>

755
01:24:11,796 --> 01:24:14,424
<i>is he still writing down his dreams?</i>

756
01:25:41,136 --> 01:25:43,763
[Martínez] <i>At 18, Shohei wrote,</i>

757
01:25:44,139 --> 01:25:46,599
<i>"Life doesn't make dreams.</i>

758
01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:49,519
<i>Dreams make life.</i>

759
01:25:50,061 --> 01:25:53,064
<i>I will dedicate my life to baseball."</i>

760
01:25:54,190 --> 01:25:56,830
Best way I can describe it.
I mean, he's passionate about baseball.

761
01:25:56,901 --> 01:25:58,420
He's always gonna be great at the game.

762
01:25:58,444 --> 01:26:01,048
He's gonna do it for, what,
maybe 10 more years, something like that.

763
01:26:01,072 --> 01:26:02,240
But what happens after that?

764
01:26:02,323 --> 01:26:04,951
When you lead a long life,
you got to fill in the blanks, man.

765
01:26:05,034 --> 01:26:08,454
[Joe] And you, you want to be
a complete person.

766
01:26:08,538 --> 01:26:11,332
That is interesting beyond just the game,
I think.

767
01:26:11,791 --> 01:26:14,586
{\an8}[Matsui in Japanese]

768
01:26:30,935 --> 01:26:32,061
[chuckles]

769
01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:34,689
His thing is baseball.

770
01:26:34,772 --> 01:26:37,984
This is his thing that
that is fulfilling everybody else's life.

771
01:26:38,067 --> 01:26:41,112
Right? Like, look, we're sitting here
doing a whole documentary about him

772
01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:43,907
and he's, you know, three
or four years into his career.

773
01:26:44,407 --> 01:26:48,369
I think whatever Shohei, you know,
fills his life with,

774
01:26:48,453 --> 01:26:50,538
whether it's baseball
or things off the field,

775
01:26:50,622 --> 01:26:51,623
I think he'll be fine.

776
01:26:51,706 --> 01:26:54,459
And I mean, burning out
after a Hall of Fame career,

777
01:26:55,752 --> 01:26:58,087
you know what I mean, like, all right…

778
01:26:58,171 --> 01:26:59,881
[laughs]
…I'll take that any day.

779
01:26:59,964 --> 01:27:01,007
[CC Sabathia laughs]

780
01:27:02,050 --> 01:27:04,719
{\an8}[Matsui in Japanese]

781
01:27:55,061 --> 01:27:57,563
{\an8}[Darvish in Japanese]

782
01:28:11,703 --> 01:28:12,996
[chuckles]

783
01:28:16,165 --> 01:28:17,250
Hmm.

784
01:28:24,632 --> 01:28:26,551
[inhales sharply]
Uh…

785
01:28:47,113 --> 01:28:49,824
[crowd cheering]

786
01:28:49,907 --> 01:28:52,076
[♪ electronic music playing]

787
01:28:55,997 --> 01:28:59,375
[crowd cheering]

788
01:29:02,337 --> 01:29:04,672
Well, I think all of us
that played this game

789
01:29:05,214 --> 01:29:07,258
are extremely devoted to it,

790
01:29:07,342 --> 01:29:12,555
and we understood, uh,
and understand how difficult it was.

791
01:29:12,638 --> 01:29:13,848
We lived baseball.

792
01:29:14,974 --> 01:29:16,851
[inhales deeply]
How old is he? 28?

793
01:29:17,935 --> 01:29:19,812
Nah, he's okay.
[chuckles]

794
01:29:25,026 --> 01:29:27,904
{\an8}[Kuriyama in Japanese]

795
01:30:15,701 --> 01:30:20,790
The only thing I can see from him
is, "What's next?"

796
01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:24,335
For the next generation of players.

797
01:30:25,962 --> 01:30:27,630
Uh, is he gonna pass

798
01:30:28,339 --> 01:30:31,843
all these things that he did
to the next generation?

799
01:30:32,635 --> 01:30:35,763
Because it's challenging to do
what he's doing.

800
01:30:35,847 --> 01:30:37,974
[♪ upbeat music playing]

801
01:30:38,641 --> 01:30:39,684
[clunks]

802
01:30:46,023 --> 01:30:47,150
[whooshes]

803
01:30:50,153 --> 01:30:51,154
[clunks]

804
01:30:55,324 --> 01:30:59,162
This is for Shohei, my buddy,
with all the respect

805
01:30:59,245 --> 01:31:02,123
and best wishes to you, Shohei.

806
01:31:06,544 --> 01:31:07,587
[Shohei mutters]

807
01:31:09,380 --> 01:31:10,506
[chuckles softly]

808
01:31:16,095 --> 01:31:17,221
{\an8}[chuckles]

809
01:31:40,620 --> 01:31:42,872
{\an8}[Shohei in Japanese]

810
01:32:31,420 --> 01:32:33,756
It'll be interesting
what the future brings,

811
01:32:34,215 --> 01:32:36,551
um, but right now,

812
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:40,972
we're just enjoying this ride,
and so is he.

813
01:32:41,264 --> 01:32:43,891
And, um, I'm excited about where he's at.

814
01:32:43,975 --> 01:32:46,185
I think he's just scratching the surface.

815
01:32:46,269 --> 01:32:49,939
I'm excited about his future
and where it's going.

816
01:32:50,398 --> 01:32:51,440
Um…

817
01:32:51,524 --> 01:32:53,067
It's going to be a really fun ride.

818
01:32:53,609 --> 01:32:54,986
And it has been so far.

819
01:32:57,863 --> 01:33:02,618
What I would like Shohei to understand
is the journey to a championship

820
01:33:02,702 --> 01:33:05,538
sometimes gets rocky,
and that's what I would tell him.

821
01:33:05,621 --> 01:33:09,834
It's very rarely a clean slide up
and you get your championship.

822
01:33:10,626 --> 01:33:11,877
You have to be patient

823
01:33:11,961 --> 01:33:14,213
and you have to understand
that your time will come.

824
01:33:14,922 --> 01:33:20,595
And that road to the top is, is not easy
or else everybody would be up there.

825
01:33:22,430 --> 01:33:23,630
Good luck the rest of the way.

826
01:33:23,681 --> 01:33:26,684
Keep going and hopefully, we'll see you
in Cooperstown here soon.

827
01:33:43,159 --> 01:33:47,913
{\an8}[Kuriyama in Japanese]

828
01:33:53,336 --> 01:33:55,546
{\an8}[♪ uplifting music playing]

829
01:34:14,982 --> 01:34:17,401
[♪ upbeat music playing,
Ghost Machines "Can't Get Enough"]

830
01:34:33,292 --> 01:34:36,045
<i>♪ All out revving up like a V 12 ♪</i>

831
01:34:36,128 --> 01:34:39,298
<i>♪ Braveheart screaming bye
I'm a raise hell ♪</i>

832
01:34:39,382 --> 01:34:42,009
<i>♪ Circuitry in my veins got the Intel ♪</i>

833
01:34:45,137 --> 01:34:47,515
{\an8}<i>♪ No shoes rocking on my feet ♪</i>

834
01:34:47,598 --> 01:34:50,434
{\an8}<i>♪ All eyes magnetized
coming down that street ♪</i>

835
01:34:51,143 --> 01:34:53,771
<i>♪ Feels good, so good ♪</i>

836
01:34:53,854 --> 01:34:55,731
<i>♪ So good to be me ♪</i>

837
01:34:56,982 --> 01:34:59,110
<i>♪ I got what you want ♪</i>

838
01:35:00,111 --> 01:35:02,363
<i>♪ I got it so good ♪</i>

839
01:35:03,197 --> 01:35:05,157
<i>♪ I got what you want ♪</i>

840
01:35:05,241 --> 01:35:09,662
{\an8}<i>♪ And you just can't,
you just can't get enough ♪</i>

841
01:35:12,665 --> 01:35:15,543
<i>♪ No, you just can't get enough ♪</i>

842
01:35:15,626 --> 01:35:17,002
[crowd chanting, applauding]

843
01:35:17,086 --> 01:35:19,839
[crowd chanting]
<i>MVP! MVP!</i>

844
01:35:19,922 --> 01:35:23,843
<i>MVP! MVP! MVP!</i>

845
01:35:23,926 --> 01:35:29,473
[crowd chanting loudly]
<i>MVP! MVP! MVP!</i>

846
01:35:29,557 --> 01:35:33,477
<i>MVP! MVP!</i>

847
01:35:33,561 --> 01:35:39,108
[chanting continues]
<i>MVP! MVP! MVP!</i>

848
01:35:39,191 --> 01:35:44,238
<i>MVP! MVP! MVP!</i>

849
01:35:44,321 --> 01:35:45,573
[chanting fades]

850
01:35:46,449 --> 01:35:48,784
[♪ upbeat music playing,
"Lost in Paradise"]

851
01:39:12,154 --> 01:39:14,156
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