The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series after a hard fought battle against the Toronto Blue Jays. The best player on the series was surprisingly not Shohei Ohtani, but his fellow Japanese Yoshinobu Yamamoto. After winning the MVP of the series, the pitcher credited one very important person for his success.

Yamamoto pointed to Osamu Yada, known as Yada Sensei, as the man behind what Yamamoto was able to do. “He’s the person who built me,” Yamamoto said. Those are big words of affirmation from arguably MLB‘s best pitcher.

According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Yada is “a biomechanist first and foremost, obsessive about how the body’s movement patterns apply force to a baseball. Beyond that, he is a philosophical guru, a bridge between the ocean-wide chasm that separates Japanese baseball,

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