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Watch: Shohei Otani crushes 469-foot game-winning HR

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If you're still on the fence about Shohei Otani's abilities as a baseball player, perhaps this will win you over.

The Japanese two-way sensation - who's expected to take his talents to MLB this winter - showed off his remarkable skill set yet again Saturday night. Serving as the designated hitter for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Otani absolutely demolished Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Yuka Ariyoshi's eighth-inning offering for a jaw-dropping solo home run that lifted his Fighters to a 4-3 win.

The blast, his eighth of the season, was estimated to have traveled 469 feet before landing near the back wall of ZOZO Marine Stadium.

He hits baseballs nearly 500 feet. He throws fastballs 100 mph. At this point, all that's left for Otani to do is hit a baseball so high and so far that it gets lost in the roof of a domed stadium and ... oh wait, he did that last year.

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