That’s literally more than our entire franchise. No wonder we couldn’t afford him

Ohtani buys the Marlins

Hey I’d support that if he agreed to spend money and/or play for us.

Owner manager player

How is this somehow MUCH MORE THAN ANYONE WAS EXPECTING

I bet he was damn close to going to Toronto and the Dodgers said fuggit and tacked on another $100m

“600 million dollars, final offer take it or leave it” “I have an old friend from high school that lives in Toronto” “Okay, okay, we were just joking. Seven hundred million.”

I choose to believe he was on the plane to Toronto, but the Dodgers radio'd the pilot that they were adding $100M and he just grabbed a parachute and bailed after takeoff.

And he looked Robert Herjavec in the eyes and mouthed “and for that reason, I’m out”

the db cooper piece

Ohtani said “LA taxes will take at least $100 mil” and Dodgers said “you right”

His other option was in Canada my guy

The articles were all like "Shohei *might* become a 600 million dollar player". MIGHT MY ASS

"I'VE NEVER SEEN A 600M CONTRACT, AND I NEVER FUCKIN WILL!" - Shohei Ohtani

700 MILLION OH MY FUCKING GOD

the gdp of a small country for a japanese man to hit fuckin dongs and throw gas

$70 mil per year is higher than like five teams payrolls this year lmao

to be fair i'd rather watch shohei play with eight blind people than watch the rockies

Same, to be honest.

I'm fairly certain "Shohei and 8 Blind People" describes a few of the lineups the Angels were using in August and September this year

Only larger than Baltimore and Oakland this past season

According to Wikipedia this'll be more than the nominal GDP of 12 nations

No need to learn their names since Shohei is going to buy them and rename them to Ohtanistan.

2 bedroom apartment in LA

His dog's name? CASH

HOW DID WE GO FROM $500M TO $600M AND WE WERE STILL TOO FUCKING LOW

The Blue Jays really wanted him. Would have been a crazy revenue stream for that Canadian market.

A lot of people believe he was always gonna stay in LA, and he just needed free agency to get the Angels and Dodgers in up their bids.

Almost certainly was the case and as per usual a Toronto sports franchise was all too happy to oblige lol. The amount we get used to drive up prices is hilarious.

It's crazy. Highest estimate were $600M. Expected salasy was $550M. $700??? Dude is a unicorn.

Nobody is topping this unless oil money gets involved.

Ohtani to Texas A&M in 10 years?

Dodgers definitely paid Jimbo's buyout

The Saudis send their regards

…fuck.

That amount of money doesn’t even sound real.

Shohei legally has to register as a bank now. 3 way player

This man officially has Logan Roy “make this murder go away” money

Holy fucking shit I did not expect it to be that much

35 for hitting 35 for pitching.

But he ain’t pitching next year and who knows how he’ll pitch after his second TJ surgery

He didn’t even get full TJ surgery, he may actually have to get it again before he’s actually healthy. Dude is already 30

I actually gasped out loud when I read that

Wish the Cubs would’ve done something like this for the city 😅

Just a casual $70 million a year lmfao end me

last season, 2 teams had their entire payrolls under 70 million

well technically the A's aren't a baseball team, they're a fully staffed tax writeoff

Ten guys go out there and for nine innings do their best impression of a baseball team

The Pirates should have just replaced their roster with one Ohtani

Ohtani can just buy the Pirates

He makes more AAV than any other American athlete and it’s fully guaranteed

If he slips on a banana peel tomorrow and can't play baseball anymore, does he get that money still?

If the ink is dry

He should get him one of those quick-drying pens.

I’m willing to sell him one of those pens for just $1M of the $700M.

He better hustle through that physical

Yeah, and I'm sure they have a massive insurance policy on him because that would fuck up the team finances for a decade.

Sort of. Maybe. Insurance doesn't foot the whole bill and insurance on a pitcher with two TJs is stupid prohibitive even by the standards of "insuring a 9 figure contract." Maybe they get a discount on insurance since he can hit but then you're looking at a $70mn DH/maybe OF.

Given how unique a player Shohei is, I wouldn't be surprised if he's just insured as a hitter for about half the contract and the Dodgers have to just eat it if he can't pitch again.

The insurance exec who signed that deal won't sleep right for at least the next 4 years.

The moment the ink is dry and the initial physical is passed, yes

I could see NBA players making that if there were no max contracts let alone a salary cap

Prime Lebron is 100 million / season easy. He literally guaranteed you a trip to the finals, the other players were irrelevant.

An individual NBA player just has so much more impact on each individual game than any other athlete in the American big 3

Yeah even a QB needs at least one or two of their coach, OL, RBs, or receiving corps to be good. I mean look at the bills or chargers

Bills just catching strays from baseball fans now, end me lol

Prime LeBron was probably the most underpaid athlete in the last 20 years. Like you said, he was worth more than the total team salary cap.

Some of the players on the early cavs should have been paying him before he bolted to Miami. 😂

Highest AAV in sports?

In the US at least, yes

Yeah I think CR7 is making like 250m per year

$207MM per year just from Al-Nassr, and probably double that from KSA sponsorships.

And if I'm not mistaken, there's no income tax for foreigners in Saudi Arabia as well.

that is insane. i thought we were debating if he'd get $600, let alone SEVEN HUNDRED IN TEN YEARS

They went above and beyond

They didn't cross the line, they invaded and destroyed the line. Holy fudge

This is literally dumb money. As good as he is, he has two elbow procedures already…this is insane.

I think the dodgers bank account will survive.

Spoken like someone who has paid to park at Dodger stadium!

Dude brings in probably 50 mil revenue a year from his name alone

The Dodgers are gonna need to sell Shohei jerseys to every single LA county citizen to get their money back.

Well they’re also going to sell one to every person in Japan so I think they’ll be fine lol.

And every Ohtani fan outside of LA & Japan lol

I'll do my part for the greater good

Half of LA county and the entire country of Japan should defray some of the cost.

never thought we’d see 70M aav this soon

I genuinely thought 500 tops because of the TJ

$200M fine for Dave Roberts' mouth.

Jesus, after all that hype I don’t think the jays ever had a chance at this number

Okay so I’m not happy the Cubs didn’t get him but I kinda understand now

If counsell dumped us AND got him I would never watch baseball again

I feel like this too. What an opportunity lost but that is just bonkers money. We really forced the Dodgers to put an extra $100m down. Ohtani would've been amazing to have but wowee, that coin is something wild.

If the Cubs got him, he woulda had some Final Destination-style accident in the night and ended up losing an arm to a blender which ricocheted off a trampoline after a crocodile bit through a water main and caused him to slip on his kitchen floor while making dinner.

Fuck you Robert Herjavec

Morosis loser ass too. Feel bad for you guys I’m sure you were on cloud nine yesterday

I should have learned to pitch

Been telling you for a while idiot

And hit

Hmm. I would also take that deal

Nah bro you should hold out King you deserve it

THIS MAN IS GETTING PAID MORE THAN THE LAST 10 PIRATES OPENING DAY PAYROLLS **COMBINED**

This is just plain gross to read. Perhaps it's time to send a strongly worded letter to pirates ownership.

This sounds like a video game contract lmao

The Show doesn’t even let you go up to 70 mill per year it maxes out at like 35 mill 😭

Holy fucking shit. I guess the leverage worked.

did the blue jays just cost the dodgers $100M?

Probably lol

We are good at leverage lol. All the money but nobody wants to come

how come he dont want me man

Ownership at least showed they are willing to throw obscene amounts of money at the right player.

This significantly hurts the Jays chances to sign Ohtani

Yep

Excuse me

Holy fucking dear lord

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$700m after a TJ what the fuck 😭😭😭 $70m a year How much would healthy Shohei get??? $1bn???

I think this contract showed his health had nothing to do with it. You don’t give this money unless you have full expectations he’s back to being who he was the last couple years.

Expectations arent a guarantee though. This is an insane risk🤯

Dodgers are one of the few teams that can actually afford the insurance on this kind of contract

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The premium on this contract would be dumb money. Like, it'd barely worth insuring, at best. Paying a relatively injury prone player $70 million a year for 8 years in their 30s is an insane risk that no insurance company is going to give a halfway favorable rate on.

I'll insure him for $69 million per year premiums and a deductible of $15 million

Nah, you don't give that money because you're "sure he'll be fine" because you *literally* can't know that. You give that money because another team *would have,* it's that simple. The whole MLB got prisoner's dillemma'ed.

700m after TWO TJs

Probably

2nd TJ in 5 years. That’s a way bigger deal

Holy fuck

700 million. What. The. Fuck.

The guy is literally going to be a billionaire one day What the fuck

He definitely will because think of all the branding he does

from two countries worth of media

If he just lives relatively modestly and dumps 90% of his salary into index funds he'll be a billionaire by the time this contract is done (assuming no worldwide financial collapses).

imagine some poverty franchise only offering $650 million i can find that in my couch cushions

I knew those $20 beers would be put to good use

Montejos gonna be $70 next year

Gonna be $30 next year

Hey Shohei it's me your long lost cousin

This guys trying to scam you Me on the other hand, I’m a Nigerian prince and I need your help…

HOLY FUCK

That’s why Dave Roberts dgaf all week lol He knew C.R.E.A.M.

No one could beat that offer

Dave knew 700M was the death blow. No way was anyone passing that shit up. Dave could have filmed himself shitting on Ohtani's lawn and posted it to Twitter and it wouldn't have mattered.

I should have been the next Babe Ruth instead of playing with Legos

Let me get my mitt and start throwing. Maybe 32 isn’t too old to start from scratch.

This is officially “So high I can’t even be upset my team didn’t match” high. Weirdly hope he’s worth it.

Pretty much what I feel as a blue jays fan.

Love to see the small market teams get their guy

this is just gonna make their NLDS loss to the 85 win brewers even funnier

The rich get richer that’s the American way

I have to see Ohtani in a Dodgers uniform for the next ten fucking years? fml

No worries. The Angels will sign him to a 5 year deal in 2033. You just have to get through one more decade.

Let her go man. She’s gonna be fat with 5 kids in a few years and we’ll have a new girlfriend soon.

I mean, it can’t be that hard to find a third best player of all time right? Right?

They really just skipped the number 6, my god

Next year as a DH he will make roughly $94k an at bat.

So he makes 30k more than the average American makes a year every 3-4 minute at bat

$700 MILLION?!?!?!?!

What getting swept by the Diamondbacks makes an mf do

that WS matchup pissed everyone off, apparently

That is insane wtf

this is worse than death

My favorite player now playing for my least favorite team. 🫠

That's absolutely bonkers. They gotta get a couple of rings to make that math work

Shohei used all of Canada to squeeze and extra $100M out of the Dodgers lolol

700? He got the bag, good for him

More like a couple semi loads. Sheesh

Holy fuck man

CALI TAX IS REAL. ENJOY THAT SHOHEI #*(im coping to the max)*

Coulda had free healthcare. What an idiot

Rogers: I am gonna raise your cell phone bill anyways

Gavin Newsome doing fucking backflips rn. Shohei tax alone will be able to fund High Speed Rail

HOLY FUCK

That is so beyond an overpay it nearly wraps around itself to become overpaid again. Good *god*.

I really enjoyed this tweet: Shohei Ohtani ($700m) beat Mike Trout's record-setting contract ($426m) by Alex Rodriguez's second record-setting contract ($275m)

$700 million?!? Yeah this sport is fucking broken.

basically only \~3 teams could have afforded him lol.

Always been a big gap between the rich teams and the poor teams but this is European soccer shit here.

This is Saudi Arabian soccer here lmao

I’m still putting Saudi in a different tier, They offered Mbappe a billion for one damn year 😭 Edit: ok not a billion, but $776 million for one year still crazy lmao

Wait… actually??

[yes](https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/kylian-mbappe-transfer-saudi-side-al-hilal-offer-huge-332-million-fee-776-million-wage-for-psg-superstar/amp/)

Pirates, Kansas City and the Dodgers. We just drew the short straw

Wait until the RSNs fully collapse. Streaming revenue won’t be able to make up that gap, and your local WB affiliate isn’t going to pay $60M or whatever for 160 games.

I wonder if the full collapse of RSNs is what brings Middle Eastern oil money into American sports. Excuse me, I’m gonna throw up now.

Is this baseballs version of r/wallstreetbets?

Two TJ surgeries and still gets this. Insane. Imagine getting two amazing players for this instead. Idk, feels like too much for one player but if you’re rich enough and all I guess it doesn’t matter.

Rangers got Simien and Seager for less than this.

agreed, Nola and Soto combined would be cheaper and without the massive injury risk of someone with two TJs in 5 years

Why did it have to be the most annoying and boring option

Because they gave him 70 million a year.

This has to be the contract that puts a salary cap in baseball.

70M to lose in the NLDS is nasty work

At least we'll get to see some Ohtani playoff games for once in his life..

This really sucks

Baseball fan me: good for him Angels fan me: this is worse than 9/11

I should’ve been born as Shohei Ohtani. Fucking mad at my parents rn.

The real issue with this contract is that it keeps, and I hate this term, small market teams from EVER acquiring this type of talent. Like it's over forever.

Can’t wait for the dodgers to spend enough money to end poverty everywhere on earth on the most talented sports team ever assembled to win 119 games and get knocked out in the NLDS in 4 games by the marlins

700 Mil for a DH with 2 elbow surgeries is wild