Shohei Ohtani's historic first half of the 2021 season will be dissected and debated among baseball fans for years to come, which makes this nugget dropped into ESPN's Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster Olney even more incredible.
The current MLB leader in home runs (32) doesn't take batting practice.
Olney said Los Angeles Angels hitting coach Jeremy Reed told him Ohtani hasn't taken batting practice once in 2021.
"He does a few flip drills, he gets ready and then he just rakes," Olney said. "Against the best pitchers in the world."
The 27-year-old is far from the first star athlete to skip practice, but few players have found as much success at the plate as Ohtani.