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@issenvan1050

11 ай бұрын

Great content whereas the combination of the background beats & your fast talking make the video virtually ununderstandable!

@The_Real_Kal-El

9 ай бұрын

Your sound editing needs work bro. Your music is too loud to hear your narration. It even worst because you speak fast. You just need to lower the music so that your narration is easy to hear.

His high school manager deserves a lot of credit. A lot of Japanese high school managers would burn out their players for the glory of winning. Shohei's coach had the long term perspective.

@super-k

11 ай бұрын

Most coaches in Japan now have a long-term perspective. They're thinking about the growth of young students, and they don't sacrifice anything to win the game now.

@burgski

11 ай бұрын

@@super-k not really, a lot the coaches would make their star pitchers throw 120+ balls a game making them throw their arm out by the end of their high school career

@super-k

11 ай бұрын

@@burgski That was a long time ago. Now there are rules and no coach can do that.

@chamuuemura5314

10 ай бұрын

@super-k you’re accurately describing rules that most managers grudgingly follow while trying to work around. The above point is that Ohtani’s coach started from a perspective of growing players to succeed later in life, not crash out in the 2.5 years they’d be playing high school ball. I was there in 2006 when Hankerchief Prince dueled Tanaka for 2 days straight and 24 innings. If not for rule changes, we’d still be seeing that today.

@patrickledonne5547

19 күн бұрын

I mean, ohtani went to a powerhouse private school that recruits AND houses top talent. So think of private high school football teams in the USA except on crack. Our private schools also recruit elite talent for sports, especially football. But most private schools do not have dorms or house their students, meaning students need to live close enough to school to commute to and from daily. At an elite boarding school with an elite baseball team, their team will probably consist of the best in the country. They might get 6-7 of the top 50 players in the entire country every single year. Chances are his first year Ohtani was not a better pitcher than an upper-classman or 2. Or not significantly better. If he was, he'd probably have started every game in the koishen and threw 500+ pitches if it was allowable in his day.

Honestly, props to that catcher for a high schooler being able to catch him…. Wonder where he went off to

@madethecut

11 ай бұрын

great point! I wonder too

@novrinkov0053

11 ай бұрын

Even most members of these powerhouses do not become professionals and take other jobs. Most members only play during their school days for fun or hobby. In Japan, most children who are not aiming to become professionals play some kind of sport. Even members with the ability to become professional often do not choose professionals. This catcher Sasaki played at university and now works at a normal powergenerating company.

@superiongames3528

11 ай бұрын

@@novrinkov0053 man what waste of talent

@novrinkov0053

11 ай бұрын

@@superiongames3528 That's right, but each students has a dream and a job they want to be from childhood. They just want to play baseball for fun But I think this is the same case in other countries as well.

@superiongames3528

11 ай бұрын

@@novrinkov0053 do you know any phenomenal pitcher who throw 90mph ++ but decided to not go pro in japan?

as a japanese person I'm amazed by how incredibly well-researched this video is, given that there are very limited English sources on Japanese high school baseball

@eyesight8716

10 ай бұрын

As an American...ty for such a good human being...we respect him so much here

Man... I highly encourage all of y'all to go to 5:43 and read his goals. They always say if you reach all of your goals, you've set the bar too low for yourself. Reading his goals truly displays his mindset and dedication to baseball at such a young age.

@willchen2k

11 ай бұрын

yes, 5:43 is exactly where i hit the pause button, and went down the list slowly one by one. now we can remotely understand the agony he must be going through in the past few seasons at Angels...for every season lost, is one of the year's life goal left unachieved...

@CalebShimomura

11 ай бұрын

These are very achievable goals, which is wild considering how incredible the goals are... ... with the exception of the strike-out record, which was untouchable when people threw 300 innings a year and is even more ridiculously untouchable now in this era where the workhorses pitch 200. If you pitched 22 years and averaged 250 strikeouts a year (a mark that a single player reached last year, Gerrit Cole at 257 Ks), you'd have 5500 Ks... which would be 215 Ks short of breaking the record. Nolan Ryan was just a physical freak, man. Man had tendons made of steel cables. Considering the question mark, it seems Ohtani knew that one was out of reach in this era, though.

@andrewstallings6548

11 ай бұрын

Step one. Make a list. Step two. Cross “Make a list” off the list. Step three. Realize I’ve already accomplished two things and take a nap.

I've lived in Japan since 2007. I remember watching Koshien that summer and the hype around Ohtani and his pitching. Most of the hype was around his pitching, but not much about his hitting.

The Summer Koshien Tournament is Japan's March Madness.

Ohtani left Babe Ruth behind ages ago. He's in his own category now.

@barfyman-dm6zx

11 ай бұрын

Let's calm down a bit😂

@Zeustra

11 ай бұрын

@@barfyman-dm6zx its true lol

@brvdyy

11 ай бұрын

@@barfyman-dm6zxgotta face reality brotha

@holidayturnpike

10 ай бұрын

@@barfyman-dm6zx you're in denial babe

@nicholaspalandra2033

10 ай бұрын

Stop kissing his ass ruth only pitched for like 4 seasons and wanted to hit to prove a point and cuz he was bored ohtani doesn’t even pass judge in war like what are u talking about 😂

Just one thing, the Koshien is the name for the Stadium, called the Hanshin Koshien Stadium, the home ground of the Hanshin Tigers. The Tigers lend out the Stadium for free for a 2 week span for the tournament while the team go out for a 2 weeks of visitor matches. The All Japan High School Baseball tournament was also originally held in a ball park in Toyonaka in Osaka prefecture (theres a memorial in a train station) and moved to Nishinomiya Hyogo prefecture when the Koshien was built in 1924. So basically the tourney is held in Hyogo, not Osaka. It gets mixed up a lot because Hanshin is super popular in the Kansai region, but ye i think thats about it.

Great video. ❤ Appreciate mentioning Coach Sasaki, who had such an important influence on Ohtani as a player and the person. Everybody talks of the obvious Kuriyama but the foundation to his discipline, mental focus, humility and strength that turned the baseball boy into the man he became is undoubtedly Coach Sasaki.

This shows the deep passion Japan has for baseball. High school students sacrifice a lot to win games

@You_suck_at_games

11 ай бұрын

I don't think it's just baseball.

6:56 The team is not called the "Ham Fighters." The team's name is just "Fighters", they are owned by the food company Nippon-Ham and they play in Hokkaido.

@EverythingIsGuchi

11 ай бұрын

But “Ham Fighters” just sounds so funny 😂

@derkaiserzen

11 ай бұрын

​@@EverythingIsGuchiSo is Bay Rays and York Yankees 😂

@johndoe-nt

11 ай бұрын

​@@EverythingIsGuchiI'd be happy to be a Ham Fighter 😂

@snappyone

11 ай бұрын

They fight fat feminists

@nnoh7363

11 ай бұрын

I've always wondered where the 'Ham' came from, but this makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Amazing video a great insight into Japanese baseball

That's a really nice retelling of the story. I'm impressed, as someone who has been watching Japanese baseball since 1975.

KOSHIEN is not in Osaka but in Hyogo.😇

@defearl

11 ай бұрын

Lol Japan does this a lot. I guess it's for brand recognition. Another example I can think of is how "Tokyo" Disneyland is not in Tokyo but in Chiba.

The Koshien brings out the type of heroism that blind poets used to write about in Ancient Greece. The legend that is Daisuke Matsuzaka began there. His stats from that tournament make even Sho-Time seem mortal.

Ohtani is now looking at the biggest MLB contract ever: 500 to 600 million!

@TheJunmengo

11 ай бұрын

And that would still be a bargain

@holidayarmadillo8653

2 күн бұрын

Turned out to be $700M 😁

That Major reference... Respect!

@OshiZlebaseball

11 ай бұрын

Agreed.

Next make a vid of Ohtani's insane season with the Ham fighters with numbers that are comparable to his 2021 season. Not many people know about it

@romiarkan450

11 ай бұрын

They're simply known as the Fighters

@626resell

11 ай бұрын

@@romiarkan450 no, they are not. what are you talking about?🤦‍♂the full team name is hokkaido nippon ham fighters. the most common abbreviation is 日本ハム.

@BardElysium

11 ай бұрын

Nippon ham is the brand name. So either nippon ham or fighters, but not ham fighters.

@Huidos001

11 ай бұрын

Hell yea fighters of the ham.

It’s a shame that people who don’t watch baseball can’t understand how great Ohtani is. If baseball is a sport as global as soccer or basketball, Ohtani owns the world.

@AndrewL31413

10 ай бұрын

It’s hard to describe to someone who doesn’t watch to understand how difficult it is to be elite pitching and batting. I can’t think of anything else like it.

@othc44

5 ай бұрын

To be honest the MLB kind of hindered the global growth of baseball...if only they always allowed their top players to participate at the Olympics and if the WBC was created sooner, baseball would have become bigger than it is today

That haircut was clean

@asianbeowulf4276

11 ай бұрын

It's the typical buzz cut that most Japanese high school baseball players get. For most schools I'm pretty sure it's a rule for them to cut their hair like that.

@OshiZlebaseball

11 ай бұрын

​@@asianbeowulf4276Yeah some schools allowed them to give the freedom of having whatever haircut they desire.

3:47 Koshien Stadium is not in Osaka, but in Nishinomiya in the Hanshin region, thus giving the name for the Hanshin Tigers.

@defearl

11 ай бұрын

I don't think Hanshin is a real region. It's the name of the company that owns the team. (I believe my dad told me growing up that Hanshin is a nickname of Osaka and Kobe combined) Unlike how MLB franchises its teams in the US, Japan goes by the names of the owner companies to refer to the respective teams rather than the cities that they represent.

@einzelganger09

11 ай бұрын

Well, to be particular it is not in osaka since nishinomiya is in hyogo pref but in a broad sense it is kinda osaka because hanshin tigers is iconic osaka thing and their home stadium is koshien. Hanshin is not official region but just of casual word for calling areas between osaka and kobe.

Thank you for this knowledge! Anyone that wants to know more about how Shohei got started absolutely needs to watch this video

A lot of research goes into videos like this, which makes me wonder why the people who make them don't take a second to see how to pronounce Japanese words and names like "Iwate" "Koshien" "manga" Or that Nippon-Ham is a company and the team is called the Fighters, as demonstrated in the team logo that is included in the video. Although there should be a team called the Ham Fighters, which is a vastly superior name in my opinion

either the background music is too loud or your mic is too low, but audio levels need tweaking

comparison to Babe has to stop... Babe played in a segregated league, against many part-time players: mechanics and insurance agents... at a level of competition that is not even a shadow of what it is today. An all star high school team today would kick ass over most teams during Babe's era.

@rustyshackelford4224

11 ай бұрын

Why do you have to say that?

@csalyer3742

11 ай бұрын

@@rustyshackelford4224 because it's true?

@jonathantaone7363

10 ай бұрын

Preach it brother! To add to your comment and something more to think about regarding Ohtani’s brilliance is there were also less teams which means less players so familiarity with hitters/pitchers would have been a Babe Ruth advantage? Just saying.

@sebastianbelcher5354

4 ай бұрын

Finally a comment that says the truth. Babe is iconic for his era but he'd be lucky to get a hit in MLB today.

The dedication that Ontani had and his coach is how real greatness is made. Bless the coach and bless the angels for keeping ontani. Amazing

@kxcCzFiSQA

13 күн бұрын

Offtani.

Dude, I like your videos. I've watched just about all of them. One suggestion, if I may, slow it down a beat or two. I have to click back to read the text you flash a lot. Maybe take a breath at the end of each sentence, lol. Other than that, you're doing good work. Keep it up.

Now I understand where Diamond no Ace got their inspiration from. Kataoka (Seido's Coach) has the exact same mentality and way teaching as the coach that taught Ohtani

"Strikeout 15 and still lose..." Why does this sound so familiar...

@Ts-fp5sd

11 ай бұрын

it's called なおえ(Na-O-E) in japan (Na O Enzerusu haibaku/But Then Angels lost)

As an athlete in Canada, I wish we would take baseball, let alone any sport as seriously as other countries do. When I see the facilities I play on versus these facilities it is night and day

@mickeytlaseca9990

5 ай бұрын

Play hockey lol

I-WA-TE! KO-SHI-EN! Dude really researched this story thoroughly and butchered the pronunciation that badly?!

3:47 It may be a trivial matter, but Koshien Stadium is not in Osaka Prefecture. Located in Hyogo Prefecture

I think it’s safe to say “This kid’s gonna be alright at baseball” 👍😂😂

The hidden MVP: Sasaki (The high school teacher)

striking out 15, hitting a home run or two, having superstar teammates and losing in high school and now, some things never change

Shohei Ohtani has become the real life version of Goro Shigeno from the “Major” manga and anime.

Legendary cut up there with Ronaldo

Nice video but..."eye-wait" lmao

Trevor Bauer and videos like this have really increased my admiration and enjoyment of Japanese baseball

@Jews_C0ntr0l_daa__worldd

11 ай бұрын

Reepist?

@Troutani

11 ай бұрын

​@@Jews_C0ntr0l_daa__worlddwas that your attempt to talk shit about Bauer, who has been proven innocent? Stfu

@gordonbgraham

11 ай бұрын

@@Jews_C0ntr0l_daa__worldd Nah...the chick lied. There's a video of her filming herself in bed afterward with him while he is asleep and with her smiling in blissful satisfaction. She should be in prison

Great video. Is it just my phone or is the BGM too loud and makes the narration hard to hear?

Koshien Stadium is located in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, not Osaka. It is about 11km west of Osaka.

Loved this one. PLEASE do a report on Shohei's massive impact on current Japanese culture from a baseball and business perspective. Shohei is live-streamed back to Japan in every moment he is visible in every MLS stadium. Would love to see the impact he is having over there from a Japanese point of view.

@yo2trader539

10 ай бұрын

Not much, to be honest.

@user-tk5bt1cg2d

9 ай бұрын

To be honest, it is a huge. Lots of Japanese people are excited his homer every morning.

one big thing I learned from this is wow, high school baseball is a huge deal in japan

I really have trouble keeping up with the fast pace narration of this.

mac suzuki was actually one of the first japanese high schoolers to forgo the npb draft and sign with an mlb team

Awesome video.

Actually the tournament is not Osaka, but rather in Nishinomiya which is in Hyogo Prefecture. It is about a 15 minute train ride from Osaka.

Great video, just one additional comment, because I really like these facts. -Due to regulations/limitations, each player has exactly 5 chances to stand on the mound in Koshien stadium, starting with the summer Koshien in their first year (in which they rarely participate), the third years cannot participate in the spring Koshien due to regulations - the invitational works a bit different, but not quite like you made it seem. While it is an invitational, 26/32 available spots are more or less automatically given to the schools that win their respective regional tournament (e.g. while Tokyo has a West/east district in the summer, the regional tournament for Tokyo includes East and West schools), 3 additional spots are awarded to so called 21st century teams. These are teams that never appeared Koshien, lost in the qualifier (but reached at least the qf) and must have done something amazing/special, an additional invite is given to the region that wins the Meiji Jingu (the last official tournament of the year, where only the 10 schools that won their regional tournament compete in) and the last two are given to either an additional team in the tokyo/kanto region and the Chugoku,Shikoku region - the reason why the summer tournament is more prestigious is because it is the final tournament for the third years. Once it concludes, the third years HS baseball life is officially over and they retire. They are not allowed to play in the regional tournament due to them having to study for their finals, and spring Koshien starts when they have already graduated -that also means that the perfect season would be a triple crown season, winning the Meiji Jingu, the spring Koshien and the summer Koshien Now for some specific facts - The team that won it all in 2012, Osaka Toin (which is quite possibly one of the best schools in the countries history) almost achieved the near impossible triple crown win in 2022. They won the fall championship/Meiji Jingu as well as the spring Koshien while also qualifying for summer Koshien. They would absolutely annihilate the first three teams they would face, before losing in an upset walk off against a dark horse in the qf, thus ending the almost perfect season, the team that defeated them would lose in the final (I still cannot believe that they lost, that team was quite possibly the best team in years, with elite pitching AND batting) Also, winning spring and summer Koshien in one year is an incredibly rare feat that has only been done a few times -the 2018 Osaka Toin team is quite possibly the best team in Japanese history in terms of batting ability, it was sometimes described as the line up of the century. They were basically the equivalent of the murderous row in HS. Their pitching was lackluster and so was their defense, but they absolutely destroyed opposing pitching, winning the Koshien final 13-2 and absolutely demolishing every team on their way to the championship. The best HS pitcher in the country, who had to hard carry his team to the final, got destroyed in the 13-2 blow out and had to leave the game in the first inning -Everyone on the 18 man roster for Koshien scored several RBI and every main player had several HR to their name (excluding their ace) - from the 2018 Osaka Toin team, 3 players were drafted RIGHT OUT OF HS!! which includes their ace, the clean up hitter and their SS (who is also an occasional pitcher who could throw 150kph) - even the 8-hole of that team became the clean up batter for his university team

It’s so unselfish of Ohtani’s coach to not make him pitch as soon as he probably wanted to. He knew that throwing him out there to pitch AND hit from the time he was 14 was gonna be bad for his long-term development.

Awesome research and detail! For future reference, you should pronounce the name of the tournament as Koshi-en

5:43 Check out that life goals list.

Real life Goro Shigeno 😮

Dude this video was top notch. That Koeshein tournament looks bigger and more insane then even the NCAA March Madness. No wonder the Japanese are World Champs

Yo love the vids but you should turn the music down

Koshien stadium is NOT in Osaka, it is located in Nishinomiya city, Hyogo prf.

And now Fujnami has a 10.50 era for Oakland.

Look at Dylan Bundy’s high school career he hit 99 his junior year and 103 his senior year

Dude is the main character bruh, pitching 99m in highschool 😂

@rustyshackelford4224

11 ай бұрын

Yes

@therealman7032

11 ай бұрын

But lost in the final game. What a story arc for the main character. The author is cruel 😭

@kawaiipotatoes7888

11 ай бұрын

But after koshien arc he became OP so the manga became boring.

Great content, it would help make it more enjoyable if you make the background music quieter

The first time i heard and watched Ohtani in some random sports highlights the first person or character came to my mind is Goro Shigeno. Now im a fan of both of them!

Well done

Almost identical whistle to one in OOTP @ 12:02

So, even in high school his team would lose despite him doing ridiculous things.

His goals as a high schooler are why so many Japanese people are successful. The average American's list would look like this: Win the lottery

The way the catcher caught that pitch was Hard as hell... Looks like a movie

The team is called the "Fighters", owned by the company Nippon Ham. They're not the Ham Fighters, that would be ridiculous

@gordonbgraham

11 ай бұрын

Nippon Ham Fighters is their official name

5:48 is the best

I need to go to some baseball games in Japan

@isamuominae

10 ай бұрын

Go to this Koshien on a home game of Hanshin Tiger's match, that's all you need.

Ohtani has already surpassed Babe Ruth.

Thanks for this. (I'll admit I had to play it @ 3/4 speed though)

The goat 😊

Another reason to want to move to Japan.... baseball

甲子園を見るのが、夏の1番の楽しみなんだよ！！！ 今年も甲子園はめっちゃ面白かった！

The real life Goro Shigeno

The video seems very informative and provides a strong background on Ohtani's rise to glory. I have two suggestions based on complaints about this video presentation. First, your script is fine but you talk too fast and without enough verbal emphasis on the words. It's a breakneck pace to the narrative, with words delivered without much tonal variation. Second, the lengthy promo coming midway through the video is annoying--too long and breaking the momentum of the video.

Koshien in Japan was held in 1915. Before the US-Japan war.

The yellow gloves same as Goro

Joker: why so serious za Shohei: cause I’m laser focused

So Ohtani is basically the Furuya (from Diamond no Ace) IRL version

@cheesywafflez9408

Ай бұрын

Goro

He’s going to be worth 700 million dollars one day

Japanese high school baseball players have shaved heads and are dedicated to sports, so they have very few relationships with women. I think Shohei Otani was also a virgin without a girlfriend when he was a student. His parents also said that Shohei Otani was a virgin without a girlfriend when he was a student.

shohei is the goat

The Goat

It's just Fighters. Not Ham Fighters

GOAT

Me watching this with a growth plate fracture from pitching….. 😐

You are brave for using NHK's footage without permission.

If any of you find koshien tournament a cool idea and you're into anime watch Ace of the diamond you won't regret it

What a ball player

LMAO he said Ohtani was so thin he could barely bench press the bar.

The catcher knew right away that was 100 as well by his body language if you watch.

I'm Japanese. To be honest, he didn't break high school baseball. Ohtani's ascent came in his Hokkaido years, when he clocked 165km/h - 102mph. Till then, the fastest NPB pitch record was 161km/h, and people in the high 150s (high 90s in mph) were considered fast. It's a real shame he didn't make it to the Koshien - I'd say the duel between Yuki Saito and Masahiro Tanaka in 2006 will remain the biggest moment in Japanese highschool baseball. Asides this, ・Seiryo High School losing after Hideki Matsui intentionally walked 5 times (1992) ・Daisuke Matsuzaka's No-hitter in the Koshien Final (1998) ・The first ever use of the "Re-match" rule (1958) - Bando (Shikoku-shogyo High School) VS Muratsubaki (Toyama Uozu High School) were the real high school baseball "breaking" moments.

Did you say rookie ball in Modesto?

I gotta get this kids jersey before it’s too late

2023 Season WAR Ohtani　5.4（1/1272） Fujinami　-2.3（1272/1272）

I am Japanese. I love eating ice cream and watching high school baseball games on TV on extremely hot summer days.

He's definitely the real life Goro Shigeno

I can’t wait until 2 way players are normal

Great video. Manga is pronounced mah-n-ga, not may-n-ga though lol

@madethecut

11 ай бұрын

good to know! Thanks for watching!