In case you tuned out from baseball during the off-season — an extremely sane thing to do — williamfleitch breaks down the seven major storylines heading into OpeningDay
Shohei Ohtani can do it all. Photo: Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Every die-hard baseball fan I’ve talked to over the past fortnight has worn the lopsided, slightly dazed smile of a person who somehow escaped a terrifying car crash unharmed. For most of this winter and spring, Major League Baseball looked doomed. Its labor issues seemed intractable, its leaders completely oblivious to the sport’s fading cultural relevance.
1. Shohei Ohtani is the best thing going. The best way to describe what Shohei Ohtani did last season was that he hit like Gary Sheffield and pitched like … Andy Pettitte? Both. At the same time. The league has never seen anything like Ohtani before — for all the comparisons to Ruth, the Sultan of Swat was never a great pitcher and great hitter simultaneously like Ohtani. The sport is understandably smitten.
3. The game is steering back into nostalgia, for better or worse. Remember the Field of Dreams game last year? It was without question the most universally lauded success of the 2021 season, and they’re bringing it back this year. It’s even worse in Queens. The Mets, thanks to the free spending of owner Steve Cohen , looked like a world beater just two weeks ago before the team’s star pitchers, Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer, both went down with injuries. As always: That’s so Mets.
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