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After scandalous winter, can Shohei Ohtani's pure talent brighten baseball?

TEMPE, Ariz. — But a few lockers from where Shohei Ohtani will start over as the game’s unique talent, Andrew Heaney on Wednesday morning was trying to put to words the full, end-to-end game Ohtani will be returning to.

Roundabout, what Heaney was getting to in a scorching assessment of the Houston Astros’ behavior and a sport so eager to chase artificial advantages: Let’s find out who’s best at baseball.

Can we do that again?

“I think that somebody in that locker room had to have enough insight to say, like, ‘This is not alright.