
Shohei Ohtani
Major changes have occurred in the new Major League Baseball season format. A single team must play against all teams, thoroughly implement cross-league competition, and write an unprecedented record. This also means that Angels Japanese star Shohei Ohtani will have the opportunity to bombard all enemy teams in the future. Choo Shin-soo is the only Asian player in the major leagues who has defeated 30 teams.
Only 4 Asian players have set a 100-homer record over the years. Nobumori Akio ranked first with 218 homers, followed by Hideki Matsui with 175 homers, Shohei Ohtani with 127 homers, and Ichiro Suzuki with 117 homers.
Ohtani, like other major league players, will encounter a format against all teams for the first time this year, with a minimum of 3 games and a maximum of 13 games between teams. He has faced 27 teams in the first 5 seasons of his career, bombing 19 of them, with the most 15 against the Athletics, followed by 12 against the Mariners.
Choo Shin-soo, a 40-year-old veteran of the South Korean professional baseball team SSG Landers, has played against all 30 teams in the major leagues for 16 years and has records for hits, home runs, and RBIs, making him the only representative from Asia.
Suzuki Ichiro's career spanned 19 years, and Matsui Hideki's 10-year career have also faced 30 teams, hitting 24 and 23 home runs respectively. Matsui Hideki had 23 home runs against the Rays, which is the record for the most hits by an Asian player against a single team. If
wants to complete the game against 30 teams in the major leagues, he must have played for different teams. Three retired Asian stars have played for 3 to 4 teams, but it is not easy to start all of them. Only Aki Nobu scored a touchdown. Whether Shohei Ohtani can become the number one player in Japan in the future is worth looking forward to.
Choo Shin-soo started with the Mariners in 2005 and worked for the Indians, Reds, and Rangers. He returned to South Korea after 16 seasons in his career in 2020. He scored more than 10 home runs against 10 teams in the major leagues. His old club, the Mariners, contributed the most with 20 home runs, and the record for the least home runs was 1 home run against each of the five teams.