the Dodgers have combined a solid player development program with liberal spending to churn out 10 National League West titles over the past 11 years without any help from Ohtani.

and was widely and continually criticized by former players even after Ohtani proved in 2016 that he could excel at both.Among them are pitchers Kazuhisa Ishii.

stunned Japans pro baseball community by announcing he would turn pro with an MLB team.This was particularly true from 2021.then slowly retracted and ultimately debunked entirely.

$700 million contract with the Dodgers in the richest deal in U.He was selected as the American League Rookie of the Year.

who had been wearing it and has been re-signed by the Dodgers.

becoming the first player to earn that honor unanimously on multiple occasions.Information about the actual ethnicities of the victims was available in 38 anti-Asian crimes.

There was also a shift in the race/ethnicity of suspects.The suspect called the victim a “Chinese bitch.

“Go back to where you came from.which found 929 reported hate crimes last year.