Nick Castellanos retired at 12. Nathan Eovaldi retired at 14. Brandon Woodruff retired at 19.
This year’s MLB All-Stars mostly have one thing in common: As children, they were two-way stars. And all but one of them have another thing in common: At some point, they gave it up.
On Tuesday, the other one will become the first player ever to start the All-Star Game at pitcher and at DH. (MLB had to change the rules to allow the game to proceed normally once he is done.) Shohei Ohtani will do so not quite 22 hours after he became the first pitcher to participate in the Home Run Derby, launching 28 home runs (six went 500 feet or more) and losing the first round in a swing-off to Nationals All-Star right fielder Juan Soto.