Nippon Ham Fighters display Shohei Ohtani mural 10 years after drafting him

Tuesday marks 10 years to the day that Japanese professional baseball team the Nippon Ham Fighters took a major gamble in the first round of the inaugural Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft. The Fighters

despite his reported public insistence that he would instead sign with an MLB team.

Shohei Ohtani ended up changing his tune and signing with the Fighters. The team and then-manager Hideki Kuriyama…