It was easy to roll your eyes when you heard what the Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani was going to attempt this season: become the first full-time pitcher/hitter since Babe Ruth. No one has successfully done it since then. But Ohtani had set his sights on shattering conventional wisdom, breaking rules that have been in place for generations. He wanted to make baseball fans stretch the limits of what they believe possible.
When the season started, Ohtani's mission quickly became the game's best story. Cynicism turned into passionate fandom, within the first week.