The Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes have officially begun.

The starting pitcher — who leads the majors in home runs and OPS — is set to hit the free agent market upon season's end, and his deal is probably going to break the bank.

Of course, 30 teams want him on their team, but the Seattle Mariners fans really let him know they really want him.

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As Ohtani dug into the batter's box for his first at-bat in the 2023 All-Star Game, T-Mobile Park erupted in "Come to Seattle" chants.

Seattle seems to always be a candidate for any Japanese superstar, Not only is it close in location to the country (relative to more eastward MLB cities), but Ichiro Suzuki made the most of his soon-to-be Hall of Fame career in the Pacific Northwest, so his influence doesn't need writing.

Ohtani is making $30 million this season, the highest salary ever for an arbitration-eligible player, surpassing Mookie Betts' $27 million for the 2020 season. 

His $24.5 million raise from last season is also the highest ever, and it's well-speculated he'll be the first $500 million player - some think he can even make $600 million.

The 29-year-old has more than lived up to expectations since he joined the major leagues in 2018. Dubbed the "Japanese Babe Ruth" when he arrived, he was named the American League Rookie of the Year with a .285 average and .925 OPS while pitching to a 3.31 ERA and striking out 11 batters per nine innings. He became the first player in MLB history to hit at least 20 home runs and strike out at least 60 batters in the same season.

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Ohtani underwent Tommy John surgery before the 2019 season, which kept him from pitching that year. He suffered another injury in 2020 that limited him to pitching in just 1.2 innings.

But he was the unanimous AL MVP in 2021 with 46 homers — the third most in baseball — and 100 RBIs with a .965 OPS. He also recorded a 3.18 ERA, which was the eighth-best mark in the AL among pitchers with at least 130 innings thrown.

Last year, his 2.33 ERA was the sixth-best in baseball, while his .875 OPS was the 10th-highest in the majors, proving that the previous year was no fluke. If it weren't for Aaron Judge's race for a Triple Crown while tying Roger Maris for the most home runs in a single season by an American League player, Ohtani would have won the MVP again. Last season, he became the first player in MLB history to qualify for both the batting and ERA titles.

This season, he's the overwhelming favorite with his .302 average, 32 homers, and 1.050 OPS on offense, and 3.24 ERA, 11.8 K/9, and MLB-leading 6.0 H/9 on the mound.

With the trade deadline approaching later this month, and Ohtani's Los Angeles Angels likely to miss out on the postseason for the ninth straight season, his team certainly has a decision to make, as they risk losing maybe the most talented player ever for nothing. At the same time, trading such a player away also just seems preposterous.

"Spider-Man: No Way Home" star Tom Holland doesn’t want to be part of the Hollywood machine. 

In an interview on the "Jay Shetty Podcast," the actor explained his struggle to be a part of the business while maintaining his sense of self.

"I really am a massive fan of making movies, but I really do not like Hollywood. It is not for me," Holland said.

"The business really scares me. I understand that I’m a part of that business and I enjoy my kind of interactions with it, but that said, I am always looking for ways to kind of remove myself from it to kind of just live as normal a life as possible."

He continued, "I definitely think it has been an ongoing thought, which is ‘don’t lose yourself.’ I’ve seen so many people come before me and lose themselves, and I’ve had friends that I’ve grown up with that aren’t friends of mine anymore because they’ve lost themselves to this business, and I just am really, really keen to focus on what make me happy which is my family, my friends, my carpentry, my golf, the charity my mom runs, that is the stuff that makes me really happy and that is the stuff I should protect."

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Holland has been acting since he was nine-years-old, and rose to international fame playing Spider-Man in the "Avengers" and "Spider-Man" films. 

In June, he announced he would be taking a break from Hollywood, which he says was planned after the completion of his AppleTV+ series "The Crowded Room."

His relationship with "Spider-Man" co-star Zendaya, has also been in the spotlight, but Holland says they both work to maintain their privacy and kept any relationship details to himself during the interview.

"My relationship is the thing I keep most sacred, I don’t talk about it. I try my best to keep it as private as possible. We both feel very strongly that that is the healthiest way for us to move on as a couple," he said. 

Holland added, "Like, you’ll never see me at an award show that I don’t have to be at. I’m never going to a red-carpet event that I’m not in the film of. I don’t want the attention when I don’t need it." 

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The actor has made other life changes, including quitting drinking alcohol, explaining he’s been sober for about a year and a half.

After trying out "Dry January" and feeling the urge to drink, Holland realized "all I could think about was having a drink. All I could think about. I would wake up thinking about it. I was checking the clock, when’s it 12, and it just really scared me. I was just like, ‘Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing.’"

Later in the interview, the London-born star said, "I was definitely addicted to alcohol," but found his life improved once he stopped drinking.

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"Things that would go wrong on set that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride," he said. "I had such better mental clarity. I felt healthier. I felt fitter and I just sort of said to myself, ‘Why am I enslaved to this drink? Why am I so obsessed by the idea of having this drink?’"

"It’s honestly been the best thing I’ve ever done," he added of his decision to become sober.

Holland also decided to take a major step back from social media.

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"I was becoming a problem. I was just obsessed with it, and I was obsessed to find out what people were saying and how people, what they thought about me. So I decided to make an announcement, which we unfortunately have to do, and say I’m taking a break from social media," he recalled. "And I tried to position myself and say I’m taking a break from social media because I feel like my mental health will benefit from it."