Sho-Time

The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

De: Jeff Fletcher

Narrado por: Kyle Tait

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani’s dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he won the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year, competed in the 2021 Home Run Derby, started in the 2021 All Star Game as both a pitcher and hitter (the first player to ever do so), won the 2021 Most Valuable Player award, and was named to Time 100’s list of most influential people of 2021. The question on everyone’s mind is this: How is this Japanese phenom doing this, and how far can he go?

As the next generation of baseball superstars cement themselves, Ohtani, who can pitch a 100mph fastball and was a Top 3 home run leader at the end of the season, stands out amongst them all. Major League Baseball has found the new face of the sport.

In Sho-time, Jeff Fletcher examines the player’s path from his early days in Japan, his transition to the MLB, and a start-to-finish inside look at his historic 2021 MVP season. Along the way, Fletcher details other players who have crossed over from Japan to the major leagues, how Ohtani brought his phenomenal talent to the game at a time when technology is exploding as a means toward maximizing performance, and the role that Ohtani and his otherworldly teammate Mike Trout are playing in helping to lead baseball into the next generation.

©2022 Jeff Fletcher (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Interesting Story

The narrator was mostly boring and hard to listen to. The most interesting thing to me was the author’s emphasis on injuries. I walked away thinking that Shohei can’t stay healthy. Is that because of how he has been used, his body’s inability to handle the two-way role, or an overall susceptibility to injury. Time will tell.

Dunno what I expected…

I was underwhelmed by both the writing and the performance but I don’t blame the author and narrator. Shohei is so young, disciplined, single-minded and squeaky-clean that his upbringing and development are almost boring, bless his heart! Until I’m able to see Ohtani play in-person I’ll thrill to highlights of his brilliance on MLB and YouTube. And eagerly await Shohei’s most dramatic and suspenseful chapter yet unwritten— Free Agency!

Pretty good

I listened to this for a school project and it was pretty interesting. The person narrating also changed their tone and made it interesting

Great book

It was a great story. I feel like too much time was spent talking about other players in order to really impress upon the reader just how great Shohei is, which seems unnecessary. The least 15 minutes were spent talking about two way players that didn't make it. I understand the need to touch on these players, but not to this extent. Still a great story of the greatest player in MLB.

How good Shohei Othani was.

I Loved how the narrator said it neutrally even when Shohei
got injured, and That he told us about his backstory Me and my mom loved this story.My mom Recomends this book to young baseball players for a chance to be inspired by this story .The story Wasn’t that good because it wasn’t very interesting,It’s more like a Book Telling us about something,not a trilling adventurous story.

Horrible reader

Story is good, but I’m gonna have to read it the old-fashioned way. The reader sounds like the speak and say toy from the 80s and I could only get through a chapter and a half without turning it off.