Shohei Ohtani Has His Mind Blown By Magic Trick At Spring Training

For whatever reason more and more pro teams are inviting magicians into their clubhouse and locker rooms during training camp or  spring training.

I don't know how or why this started… but I am a fan.

A bunch of teams have done it in recent years, including the New York Jets, who played magician's assistant on last year's edition of Hard Knocks.

That's even funnier now knowing that cornerback Sauce Gardner is not a fan of magic…

The Los Angeles Dodgers have gotten in on this, and superstar Shohei Ohtani was the latest to get a taste of some sleight-of-hand sorcery.

Magician Shlomo Levinger — whose X bio describes him as the "The Athletes Magician," a solid bit of branding as this trend continues — dropped by the team's spring training facility with a deck of cards ready to blow some minds.

Check it out:

Ohtani picked a card — the seven of diamonds — while holding a pack of cards. Sure enough, when the pack was opened, the four aces were all facing up, and on the back of each card was a word. 

Put them all together and what did it say? "The seven of diamonds."

That's pretty amazing.

Card tricks like this stress me out. Just because what if after all of that prep, Shohei goes off the board and picks the three of clubs or the Jack of Spades? What happens then?

I'm sure a seasoned man of magic like Shlomo Levinger has a contingency plan in place, but I know what I would do: fake a sneeze, throw the cards in the air, and high-tail out of the room to the sound of bongo drums. You'd see my outline in smoke like some Hanna-Barbara character.

But who cares about my hang-ups when it comes to magic, Levinger is a pro and he certainly blew Ohtani's mind with one hell of a trick.