Before the "on U.S. soil" portion of the 2025 MLB season officially gets underway next week, we have one final order of business: Ranking the top 25 players in the majors. Our Joel Reuter has been knocking out the position-by-position rankings left and right (as well as third and short and everywhere else) over the past few weeks.

Ohtani is the second Japanese-born player to hit a home run in an MLB game played in Japan, joining Hideki Matsui. Matsui hit a two-run home run for the New York Yankees against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at the Tokyo Dome on March 31, 2004.

Shohei Ohtani belted his first home run of the season Wednesday in Tokyo, but it came with some controversy as the announcers, and even Ohtani, weren't sure it should have been a home run after the umpires reviewed it.