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Before Shohei Ohtani signed the most lucrative contract in U.S. professional sports history, baseball's two-way superstar put together yet another season of unparalleled brilliance from Tokyo to Anaheim.

What can this singular talent possibly do next? The Los Angeles Dodgers are eagerly paying $700 million to see for themselves.

But what Ohtani already did in 2023 -- both for the Los Angeles Angels and for Japan in the World Baseball Classic -- is the reason he was selected as The Associated Press' Male Athlete of the Year for the second time in three years.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...-honor-3-years