“It’s getting a little absurd. This shouldn’t be humanly possible. It’s like watching Barry Bonds in his prime, Reggie Jackson in October, and Albert Pujols in a Cardinals uniform,” wrote Bob Nightengale after Shohei Ohtani’s electrifying Game 3 performance. Ohtani is playing on another level, putting on a show so brilliant it’s silencing every doubt that ever trailed him. One of those doubts resurfaced recently through an old fan post — a reminder of how far he’s come since people questioned if he could ever succeed in the big leagues.

It has a March 2018 tweet from Sporting News that highlighted a scout’s quote about Shohei Ohtani: “He’s basically like a high school hitter because he’s never seen a good curveball.” Even Ohtani said about that at one point, “There wasn’t anyone [in the M

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