Shohei Ohtani has done it all as a baseball player. His legacy is already being written, and it will only grow in the decades to come.
Although he will miss the remainder of the season due to a ruptured UCL and strained oblique, he still managed to achieve a career first.
The Major League Baseball released its annual jersey sales report on Friday, and Angels two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani was at the top.
Ohtani’s success in the MLB has been unprecedented, and he can now add leading the league in shirt sales to his list of accolades.
Two injuries cut Ohtani’s remarkable season short, but he’s still a lock to win the AL MVP award for the second time in three years.
Then, in a matter of months, he’ll be faced with one of the most momentous decisions in sports history: deciding where he wants to spend the second half of his career.
If Ohtani does leave Anaheim, his Angels jersey will no longer be the most popular in the league next season.
Whatever team he joins, though, should expect to have the league’s best-selling jersey in no time.