There was always going to be just one man who was most deserving of winning World Series MVP honors after the Los Angeles Dodgers triumphed over the Toronto Blue Jays after 11 pressure-packed innings in Game 7. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a day after throwing 96 pitches as the team's starter in their Game 6 win, somehow managed to throw 2.2 innings in relief and got himself out of multiple jams before Will Smith's home run powered the Dodgers to a 5-4 win.

Yamamoto's durability and endurance are unparalleled in today's game. It's unfathomable that someone could handle throwing these many high-leverage pitches. But Yamamoto is not quite like any other pitcher. He underwent rigorous training in Japan under the tutelage of his personal trainer and biomechanist Osamu Yada, affectionately known

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