Sports Collectors Digest

HIGH-FLYING ANGEL SHOHEI OHTANI STILL SOARING ON THE CARD MARKET

In fantasy baseball, two major website hosts, Yahoo and CBS Sports, split Shohei Ohtani in two. You can draft him as a hitter or as a pitcher. If you draft “both” Ohtanis, it costs you two slots on your roster.

In ESPN fantasy games, Ohtani is whole: When you draft him, you get him as both a hitter and pitcher. The catch: You cannot use both “halves” of Ohtani in your lineup on the same day. So if you want him active on the days he’s pitching, you have to bench him as a hitter.

In the hobby, of course, Ohtani is one player — and he’s a player every baseball collector is watching. Not since Babe Ruth have we seen a major leaguer so

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