Shohei Ohtani Fills Up Waters for His Teammates

I also saw this incredible video of him in the dugout. Ohtani is filling up the water cups and he puts nine of them out there. He's not just going to get his own water, he's filling up water almost like he's a bat boy or something for the rest of the team. I was moved by that right there. He's not some big showboat who's looking. He's looking out for the other guys to get them water. He doesn't know there's a camera on him. I don't think he's like that kind of, you know, he's not savvy in that way. What do we know about him as a person? Because he doesn't speak English. Well, he speaks more English than he lets on, and he certainly, he certainly is savvy. He certainly understands when the question is posed, you can see him nodding his head like he already understands the question, but he prefers to answer more precisely in his native tongue. And then the interpreter delivers the answer. It was that way, too, for quite a while with Ichiro. But then Ichiro eventually, his English became so good that he delivered his Hall of Fame speech this past summer entirely in English, wrote it in English and delivered it beautifully in English, which was just so impressive. But I think Otani, like Ichiro and others, it's a cultural thing. Respect is a huge thing in Japan. In Japan, when players come to the plate for the first time in the game, they bow to the umpire. That's just kind of the way it is. And so even though obviously Otani has to have supreme confidence and you can see that he's enjoying himself, he's more stylish than he is exhibitionist. You know, he doesn't do a lot of self-congratulatory stuff.