Imagine you’re cooking dinner. You’re a world-class chef at making pasta. Every time you make it, it’s perfect. But Ohtani doesn’t just make the pasta. He also builds the oven.
In baseball, most players specialize. You’re either a pitcher (the person who throws the ball) or a hitter (the person who swings the bat). It’s like being a painter who only mixes colors, or a sculptor who only holds the chisel. Ohtani does both. He throws the ball over 100 miles per hour, and then, a few days later, he hits that same speed out of the park.
It hasn’t been done at this level since Babe Ruth—and that was over a hundred years ago. We’re talking about a guy who breaks a century-old rule for fun.
