Shohei Ohtani was born in Iwate Prefecture in 1994. Selected first overall in the 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft, he joined the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and gained attention for his two-way role as both pitcher and hitter. In 2018, he moved to Major League Baseball, where he has achieved tremendous success on the sport’s biggest stage.

Shohei Ohtani’s determination to grow and evolve resonates deeply with the Seiko Prospex philosophy to “Keep Going Forward.”
As both a pitcher and a hitter, he has performed at the highest level on both sides of the game, an achievement few thought possible. He has refused to be defined by convention, all while preserving the joy of playing the game. Step by step, Shohei Ohtani continues to build his achievements with confidence.