Shohei Ohtani beats Lionel Messi to win second AP male athlete of the year award

• Baseball star has won the award twice in three years
• Messi and Novak Djokovic finished second in voting

Before Shohei Ohtani stepped into the bright lights of Hollywood and signed the most lucrative contract in professional sports history, baseball's two-way superstar put together yet another season of unparalleled brilliance from Tokyo to Anaheim.

What will this singular talent do next? The Los Angeles Dodgers are eagerly paying $700m to see for themselves.