CORRECTED: Baseball: Ohtani named Classic MVP, aims next at Angels postseason
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At his March 2019 retirement press conference, Ichiro Suzuki was blunt about his expectations for Shohei Ohtani, saying, “He has to become the world’s No. 1 baseball player.”
Four years later, the Los Angeles Angels two-way star has all but secured that mantle, further underlining his claim by helping Japan win the World Baseball Classic with a 3-2 victory over the United States in Tuesday’s final in Miami.
“It’s unrealistic for someone to win the Cy Young Award one season and a home run title the next...but Shohei makes us imagine he might do that,” Suzuki said back in 2019.
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