Japan's Babe Ruth is headed to the Majors

Shotahei Otani showed his best performance on both sides.
He is a comic character who throws a 165-kilometer fastball and hits a home run, and now he's playing at the LA Angels, where the best baseball players in the world come together.
His appearance on the interview was considerably polite and modest, and his appearance was also outstanding.
Could you see a scene where you beat Brace Harper to strike out and homer to Kershaw?
I support the success of the major leaguer, Shohei Hotani, which is expected more in the future.

interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shohei-ohtani-babe-ruth-of-japan-60-minutes-1/

The most captivating story in baseball this offseason involves a player who has yet to take his first swing-or, for that matter, his first pitch-in a Major League game. Shohei Ohtani, a fearsome pitcher AND prodigious hitter in Japan, announced his ambitions to take his dual talents to the Majors.

After a fierce recruiting contest among all but a few teams, Ohtani chose to sign with the Los Angeles Angels. The team not only got a young potentially transcendent, two-way star; they got him at a bargain price-a $2.3 million bonus and a salary of barely $550,000-thanks to baseball's international spending rules.

As we first reported last April, Ohtani vows to keep pitching and batting. Should he have the durability to pull it off, he'll be the first Major Leaguer to moonlight since a guy named Babe Ruth. We traveled to Japan early this year to meet Ohtani for what was his first interview with an American television network. But we first laid eyes on him in Arizona, where his former team held spring training.

This sliver through the fence of a batting cage made for a fitting introduction. We found dozens of Japanese outlets angling for a slice – any slice -- of Ohtani in action. Cameras follow him to the exclusion of every other player on the field and so do the fans. We met supporters who traveled 5,000 miles to the desert southwest just to watch him train.

Having glimpsed the Ohtani phenomenon on the road, we were eager to explore it on his turf. Our search to find what all the fuss was about took us here, to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island. It's home to the national champion baseball team, the Nippon Ham Fighters. It's also home to the sport's most intriguing prospect.

"Just thinking about facing [Kershaw] makes me really happy and excited. I could just tell he's such a great pitcher through the TV screen." Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani looms large in the snowy Hokkaido town of Sapporo. If Tokyo is a fastball, Sapporo is a curveball. Japan's fifth-largest city feels not unlike a laid-back ski village. But this is a baseball town. And this is the home stadium, the Sapporo Dome.

It's here we sat down with Ohtani. We broke the ice with a question about what we'd heard was his favorite local fast food.

Jon Wertheim: Very important question. In-N-Out Burger or Captain Kangaroo burger?

Shohei Ohtani (translation): Captain Kangaroo.

Jon Wertheim: Better?

Towering and affable, Ohtani is working on his English, but felt more comfortable using a translator during our interview.

Jon Wertheim: I want to ask you about coming to the Majors. But should we say "if" or should we say "when"?

Shohei Ohtani: That's a tough one. I mean, nothing is for certain so, I guess it's "if".

Despite that cautious response, Ohtani eagerly revealed which Major League players he looks most forward to facing – no less than MVP hitter Bryce Harper and star pitcher Clayton Kershaw.

Shohei Ohtani (translation): I watch Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw.

Jon Wertheim: A pitcher and a hitter.

Shohei Ohtani (translation): Yeah, unlike me Kershaw is a lefty.