Visitors play an interactive baseball game by Japanese game maker Konami as an image of Los Angeles Dodgers Japanese player Shohei Ohtani (behind) decorates the wall, during the preview day for the annual Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Visitors play an interactive baseball game by Japanese game maker Konami as an image of Los Angeles Dodgers Japanese player Shohei Ohtani (behind) decorates the wall, during the preview day for the annual Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 25: Baseball Hall of Famer and former Oakland Athletics player Rickey Henderson signs autographs for Wilkin Castillo #90 of the Oakland Athletics before the Oakland Athletics game against the Texas Rangers at the Oakland Coliseum on September 25, 2024 in Oakland, California. The final Athletics game at the Coliseum will be played on September 26. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 25: Baseball Hall of Famer and former Oakland Athletics player Rickey Henderson hands the starting line up card to manager Mark Kotsay of the Oakland Athletics before their game against the Texas Rangers at the Oakland Coliseum on September 25, 2024 in Oakland, California. The final Athletics game at the Coliseum will be played on September 26. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 21, 2024 shows little figurines of Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the US, in a display of memorabilia in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. Shohei Ohtani last week made Major League Baseball history but it was Masanori Murakami who laid the groundwork 60 years ago when he became the first Japanese player in MLB. Now 80 and with a twinkle in his eye, Murakami says Ohtani is a "model" baseball player and the perfect ambassador for Japan. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) / TO GO WITH: baseball-JPN-MLB-Murakami-OhtaniI, INTERVIEW by Andrew MCKIRDY (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 21, 2024 shows Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the US, speaking during an interview with AFP in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. Shohei Ohtani last week made Major League Baseball history but it was Masanori Murakami who laid the groundwork 60 years ago when he became the first Japanese player in MLB. Now 80 and with a twinkle in his eye, Murakami says Ohtani is a "model" baseball player and the perfect ambassador for Japan. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) / TO GO WITH: baseball-JPN-MLB-Murakami-OhtaniI, INTERVIEW by Andrew MCKIRDY (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 21, 2024 shows Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the US, talking about some of the memorabilia on display, before an interview with AFP in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. Shohei Ohtani last week made Major League Baseball history but it was Masanori Murakami who laid the groundwork 60 years ago when he became the first Japanese player in MLB. Now 80 and with a twinkle in his eye, Murakami says Ohtani is a "model" baseball player and the perfect ambassador for Japan. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) / TO GO WITH: baseball-JPN-MLB-Murakami-OhtaniI, INTERVIEW by Andrew MCKIRDY (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 21, 2024 shows Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the US, speaking during an interview with AFP in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo. Shohei Ohtani last week made Major League Baseball history but it was Masanori Murakami who laid the groundwork 60 years ago when he became the first Japanese player in MLB. Now 80 and with a twinkle in his eye, Murakami says Ohtani is a "model" baseball player and the perfect ambassador for Japan. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) / TO GO WITH: baseball-JPN-MLB-Murakami-OhtaniI, INTERVIEW by Andrew MCKIRDY (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)