[Surprise]Shohei Otani’s watch sent to the team and behind-the-scenes staff before the start of the season was praised throughout the United States! Roberts also expressed his gratitude.

On the eve of the 2026 opening game, “feelings” arrived in the Dodgers’ locker room. Shohei Otani presented Seiko watches and the message “Three-Peat” to the entire team. This documentary explores the humanity of players, managers, coaches, and even the behind-the-scenes staff. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 March 26, 2026 Opening Game 🏟️ Dodger Stadium 📊 Dodgers 8 – 2 Diamondbacks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ Surprise delivered to lockers On the morning of the opening game in 2026, when the players stood in front of their lockers, they saw an elegant paper bag they didn’t recognize. Inside was a watch from Seiko, Japan’s world-renowned luxury brand. It was a masterpiece that cost approximately 4,000 dollars (approximately 630,000 yen) each. The accompanying message card reads, “Happy Opening Day!! ThreePeat!! Shohei Ohtani.” The person who set it up was Shohei Otani. Moreover, this gift was delivered not only to the players, but also to the entire team, including Manager Roberts, the coaching staff, and the backroom staff who wash uniforms and maintain equipment. ▼ Testimonies from teammates Teoscar Hernandez praised Shohei, saying, “Shohei is a great teammate and a great person. He always tries to make everyone happy.” Holding the watch, Miguel Rojas said, “I will cherish it for the rest of my life. It’s a treasure I received from the best player in the world,” and Coach Roberts testified, “I’ve been in this world for over 25 years, and I don’t know of any other star player who is so naturally loved by those around him.” ▼ Why Seiko? Around this time, Otani announced a global partnership with Seiko. By choosing a Japanese brand, he also showed pride in his roots, aligning the brand’s philosophy of “valuing the value of time” with his own beliefs. It was a special gift that combined three feelings: respect for the sponsors, gratitude for the team, and a boost in morale for winning their third straight victory. ▼ Tears from behind-the-scenes staff “At first I thought it was a mistake, after all, we’re just washing the players’ uniforms,” she said with tears in her eyes.The moment she read the words “Three-Peat” on the message card, she said, “I realized once again that I am a member of this team.” Otani appears in the staff room every morning, greets everyone with a “good morning,” and remembers each person’s name. ▼ Why Shohei Otani is loved The 10-year, 700 million dollar superstar is more humble than anyone else and treats everyone with the same attitude. From the first day of his transfer, he greeted all the players and tried to remember the names of the backstage staff. This video explains why Mookie Betts says, “The energy in this clubhouse has completely changed since Shohei arrived.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Main comments in the video━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 Coach Roberts: “He has a pure heart. Having Shohei on this team is our greatest asset.” 🔹 Miguel Rojas: “He didn’t say anything, but he patted me on the shoulder. That was enough.” 🔹 Team staff: “They really pay attention to the people behind the scenes like us.” 🔹 Yoshinobu Yamamoto: “The staff looked really happy, so I’m simply happy.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 Highlights of this video ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Seiko’s watch surprise ── The true reason behind giving watches worth approximately 630,000 yen to the entire team ✅ The players’ real voices ── Hernandez, Rojas, Betts, and Yamamoto talk about Otani’s humanity ✅ Testimony from manager Roberts — “The most naturally beloved star of 25 years” ✅ Tears from behind-the-scenes staff — Otani’s daily life of remembering his name and greeting him every morning ✅ Why he chose Seiko — Respect for his sponsors and pride as a Japanese ✅ 8-2 victory in the opening game — From surprise to victory, the whole story of the dramatic day━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Related information━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Shohei Otani’s opening game gift is for the third consecutive year. 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