Ohtani could be baseball’s GOAT. This is the Australian star about to take him on

Australia’s first-ever Major League Baseball No.1 draft pick and his countrymen are plotting a titanic upset against Shohei Ohtani – the biggest name in the sport – in his home country, Japan.


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