Comprehending what Shohei Ohtani can do on a baseball field is difficult, much less properly celebrating it. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar is more than just the best player on the planet; he’s a unicorn normalizing something that should not be possible.
“I think it’s the limitations of the human brain,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman tried to explain during the Dodgers’ second consecutive title run this past October. “We can’t comprehend just how special this is and how unique.”
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There is no higher regular-season baseball honor than the Most Valuable Player award, and even there, Ohtani is starting to run out of company. He was selected as the National League’s MVP on Wednesday, his fourth league MVP in five seasons. Ohtani joins Barry Bonds as the only players to take home the award more than three times.
Shohei Ohtani, living legend. pic.twitter.com/SdM36jAXUq — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 14, 2025
This time, Ohtani won it over fellow finalists Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies and Juan Soto of the New Y
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