There is perhaps no one more interesting figure in the baseball realm right now than Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, who has a huge following from either side of the hemisphere. With the reigning World Series champions currently in Japan for the Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs,

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high point

The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t have any shortage of options for Opening Day starter given the talent in their rotation, but Yoshinobu Yamamoto stood out as an obvious choice to take the mound in the first game of the Tokyo Series.