Legendary players who represented Korean professional baseball were astonished by Shohei Ohtani's unbelievable skills. In particular, Lee Dae-ho, who played in Japan during the same period as Ohtani, highly praised the effort he made to reach his current position.
On the afternoon of the 7th, the YouTube content Zzanbro Shin Dong-yeob featured former baseball players Park Yong-taek, Lee Dae-ho, Kim Tae Kyun and Na Ji-wan talking with Shin Dong-yeob and Jeong Ho-cheol.
That day Shin Dong-yeob mentioned Ohtani, who is active in Major League Baseball as both a pitcher and a hitter. He asked, "A style like Ohtani's is somewhat unreal and doesn't make sense, right? Do other baseball players see it that way too?" expressing curiosity about the level of Ohtani as evaluated by Korean baseball legends. Kim Tae Kyun and Lee Dae-ho also agreed that it is a level that is hard to understand realistically. Pitchers need time to recover after a game and prepare for their next start, but Ohtani throws as a pitcher and at the same time continues to appear in games as a hitter.
In particular, Lee Dae-ho recalled watching Ohtani firsthand in Nippon Professional Baseball. He said frankly, "I played with him in Japan, and back then he wasn't at this level," adding that this is why he values Ohtani even more now. Lee Dae-ho emphasized that seeing how much he has grown compared with then shows how much training and preparation he must have done. He explained that enormous effort must have gone into performing at top level not only as a home run hitter but also as a pitcher after moving to the United States.
Lee Dae-ho said he also cites Ohtani as an example to younger players, saying, "They don't know how much this player has worked. If you want to catch up, you have to work like this."
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