He added: “All the kids want to be like Ohtani ... He's the culmination--so far, at least--of an evolution in Japanese baseball that began when the game was introduced to the country in ...

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“With Ohtani, the kids think everything is possible ... The mania topped out when Japan won the World Baseball Classic about 20 months ago, defeating the United States.