A few weeks ago Japan national team won the World Baseball Classic, many players had the big impacts on the WBC around the world.
You must know bout Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, he has two-way style can be great pitcher and also hard hitter. As you know he is an amazing baseball player but also gentlemanly according to the media.
I’m going to share his influences these days in Japan.
TV commercials
After World baseball classic 2023, Shohei Ohtani has appeared in various TV commercials in Japan, for example beauty products, sunscreen, bank, SEIKO watch, airline and more. You end up watching the commercials instead of changing the channel or fast forward them. You will definitely like the commercials and you feel like buying them because he looks like so much attractive in that adverts, of course I guess the real Shohei is great!
Chris Rose Rotation
The other day Cardinals’ Lars Nootbaar appeared on Chris Rose Rotation that is a podcast show in US and he talked about Shohei Ohtani there. According to his interview, Shohei Ohtani can not go 3 feet without being surrounded by people in Japan. Furthermore you can not go 3 feet without seeing something Shohei and Japan national team related in Tokyo. The most surprising thing for Lars Nootbaar, Shohei Ohtani is very humble and never be arrogant. If you were Shohei Ohtani, you feel nervous and that circumstance annoys you. However he can not only behave normally but also he doesn’t dress up himself.
Want his leftover
Shohei Ohtani hit the home run vs Australia of the first round WBC. The ball hit the big centerfield screen which appeared huge Shohei’s face at that time. Lars Nootbaar said that screen shows commercials of Shohei Ohtani during the inning. That’s unbelievable. And there are Shohei’s faces around in somewhere Tokyo where like Downtown or Times square. And he wears GRAND SEIKO watch on the adverts. It’s normal that he earns more in off-field than in field because you can see his face anywhere. Forbes says that his total cost of fee in this year estimates $65,000,000. A breakdown of his fee is $30,000,000 for annual salary and at least $35,000,000 for off-field income.
Lars Nootbaar says he always said joke to Shohei ” tell me if they need Walmart Shohei or Japanese half Shohei, and I’ll do a stroke in business. Let me a bite. He is like Michael Jordan or The Beetles in Tokyo.
Summary
Shohei Ohtani makes headlines every time in Japan when he takes the mound. Even you can find so many pages of Shohei on You Tube channels and they are so interetsing.
How about in your countries?
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