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    ‘It’s sustainable’: How exacting preparation made Angels’ Shohei Ohtani a unanimous MVP

    LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani was surrounded on all sides. Commissioner Rob Manfred flanked one shoulder. Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara followed close to the other. And all around them, a horde of other MLB personnel lurked in an oversized circle, whisking the Angels' two-way star through a crowded corridor at Minute Maid Park in Houston minutes before the opening game of last month’s World Series. ...
    by Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times Nov 18, 2021 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani was surrounded on all sides.

    Commissioner Rob Manfred flanked one shoulder. Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara followed close to the other. And all around them, a horde of other MLB personnel lurked in an oversized circle, whisking the Angels' two-way star through a crowded corridor at Minute Maid Park in Houston minutes before the opening game of last month’s World Series.

    There aren’t many occasions where baseball players look so much like movie stars, their simple presence pulling attention into the gravity of their orbit.

    But there aren’t many baseball players like Ohtani, whose 2021 season with the Angels didn’t just capture the sport’s imagination, but redefined the limits of what once seemed possible for a single player to accomplish.

    It’s why he became one of the league’s biggest attractions this year, hitting 46 home runs with 100 RBIs while also striking out 156 batters with a

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