🚨 'FLABBERGASTING': Shohei Ohtani defers $700M contract to $2M/year | SportsCenter 

biggest money maker for Dodgers might be Japanese TV rights.

All I have to say is.....❤ I love you Ohtani!!!! I promise to spend, spend, spend at Dodger Stadium 🏟 at the Dodgers store while drinking 30.00 tall boys 🍻🍺🍻🍺😅😅😊😂🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲😎😎😎😎🙏🙏🙏🙏😅😅😅😁😁😁😄😄😃😀🥲🥲🥲🥲

30 million is just from tickets and merchandise. Sponsorships and a NHK tv deal bring it to probably 100 million a year.

Ohtani will probably make $20 million a year on endorsements alone!

Per ESPN's Alden González, it is believed that Shohei Ohtani made between $40 million and 50 million this year just off his image in endorsement deals in the United States and mainly, in his home country, Japan. Amp . Marca

Well said ! I personally wanted Shohei to stay with Angels at the beginning of his FA since “loyalty” is a very important aspect of Japanese culture, but after what I learned the details of this contract and the fact the same contract was offered to Angels by Shohei, I became convinced that Moreno was not as committed to winning as Shohei is, and therefore I am at peace with Shohei switching team. Dodgers dynasty has begun !

GlaZing

I respect the player who doesn’t need to stack his team to win

@@tommyl3707you’re just jealous your team can’t

​@@tommyl3707this is fkn baseball. It's not like basketball or football. "Stacking" a team means nothing (look at San Diego and NY Mets last year) Leaving money open for pitchers and depth is SMART AF.

Back of your throat sore or what?

​@@thisguy8106Yeah ? Didn't work out for Rangers right? Moron

50% of that money is going to taxes... He should have asked for more.

@@AnonymousUser-ss2qrevery pro player pays 50% tax rate. He isn’t special

Than sign for 10 million

Japan 1 - USA 0

@@metallicafan416 You don't seem to understand what signing for 10 million would do to the other players. I can't even tell if you're sayin 10 million for a year or the whole ten years. I'll take it that you meant for a year. Let's say you work for an annual $100,000. Then comes a guy who does you're job a lot better than you in more than one way, and he only takes $1,000. Would you find that man to be fair and galant while you'll be most probably unemployed by the next fiscal year? In addition, no one would be hiring you for more than $1,000 any longer. The average salary for a ML player is $4.9m, which is exactly 7% of Ohtani's $70m. Let's put that into perspective. If the top dog in the world you work in gets only $1,000 a year, an average guy in a firm of the same industry would probably make $70 a year. I presume not too many people would be OK with that. Shohei actually sent a message not to be too greedy to many ML stars without risking destruction of the whole structure. BTW, if you meant 10 million for the entire ten years the calculation would end up much less, i.e. $7 a year...

@@metallicafan416 what a moron take ? Cry more sheep , how’s the 9-5?

😂 oh no money was never the focus I mean I guess he could live on 1 million a year hmmm maybe he could live on 50000.00 a year . Im sure making 700 million for the rest of his life was not the focus

taxes will take 50% of that money... California

Barry bonds

He hasn't won anything though. I'm a fan but he needs to win

If the 2% that I get to keep is 2 million per year and my off the field income is God knows how much higher than that? Sure, why not... I get 3/4th of a billion dollars in 10 years and get to win in the short term which only boosts my brand and value even more off the field. Let's not act like Ohtani is Mother Teresa devoting his life to others by delaying being a billionaire by a few years.

Now they say this is not right, this is unfair bla bla bla..

If you know that you know you are guaranteed to get $700 in the end and are going to get $50 plus million a year somewhere else, I’m sure a lot of people will have no problem saying yes to that.

@@Harcorwrestler And will you? You know that Ohtani is losing roughly $260M in the 10 year span, right? That 260M is not going to be compensated. It's easy to say you will, but in reality, no one will do that other than Shohei.

Bruh that’s from baseball only tho 😂😂😂like I’d definitely do that if I had Ad revenue coming in from new balance and other brand deals. 2million from baseball doesn’t hurt all the Ad money he’s going to be receiving from sponsors. It’s actually super easy to do people aren’t dumb…

Humble man💯

After this move, Ohtani is definitely my favorite player.

After this move, Ohtani is definitely my favorite player.

Yea he’s like Lebron, wants to make a super team cause he can’t win, he likes to rig it

@@nathandiggins9701bro this is baseball you can’t carry a team.

@@omegacroc2928 by sacrificing ... he's carrying the team little bruh.

@@nathandiggins9701 bro tried with the angels homie, you are delusional

Nah total BS deal. Very anti competitive for the league.

Wrong. He likely did it to add to his mystique. Could've take 10 years 460 million and earned more investing the money.

Wrong Not a bad idea if the deferred money is converted into ownership shares of the Dodgers when he retires

Absolutely 💯 Correct! Don't listen to or pay attention to these 2 Bozos. They understand nothing about TEAM concept & a perfect example of whom NOT to have in your organization.

Dodgers offices said after meeting with Ohtani on 01/12/23, they were shocked, because they realized that rumor is true his hobby just two things, one is playing baseball, two is baseball training🤯 In the meeting, they said they asked him why want to play baseball? And the answer is so simple: I just wants to play baseball. 😮 Shohei is not like other players display themselves like a CEO or a brand, He is so fresh. Every Shohei fan knows that he is just like a teenager whose life only eating, sleeping and baseball ⚾️ but still touching our hearts with heard about it again from the high official 🥹

Then he should have taken the opportunity to expand it around the world. America needs to get out of its own way if they every truly want to expand the sport.

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Dawg he makes $50 mil per year in endorsements that's why hes okay with this large deferral lol

No wife. No children. Doesn't go out and party like a celebrity. Drives a Tesla and not some $4.5M super car. No drama. Gets along with everybody. Financially secured for many lifetimes over. Generous. Good looking. A real stud on the field. He's the kind of guy fathers want their daughters to marry.

@@kumar01234 don't call me "dawg"

Considering cali tax… it’s a genius move. I doubt he’ll be with the dodgers for all ten years. Perhaps he can work in a trade to a no income tax state at the end of his contract /career? Sheesh that’ll be a lot of money saved on taxes

He's Japanese. Culture of respect and discipline

He makes $40m a year in endorsements. He will be fine.

Let his mom hold all his money. She gives him a monthly allowance of $1000. Dude spends only $200

Nah.. took the easy way out. I don’t respect it

@@jayalmo8831 "Jayalmo"-Yeah, I wonder why you think that way. Stay salty, nobody wants to play for y'all.

Yep. The funny thing is that Shohei doesn't need that much money. His monthly spendings rarely exceeds a few hundred dollars. Even MJ made $4m a year three decades ago. The average NBA salary was $1m, so he was still making four times the amount. Thirty years later, after the huge inflation during that time, Ohtani is willing to play for $2m a year. Nowadays, an average MLB player makes $4.9m a year. That's less than half the average. Not taking anything away from MJ, just saying how crazy this Ohtani guy is!

I think Shohei already makes $25M-$30M annually in endorsements currently. So he has more money than he knows what to do with. And he leaves money on the table to build a stronger team around him@@clubeyxander5132

MJ got paid NOTHING, this guy is off salary

​@@clubeyxander5132not for a star, MJ making alot less and this guy is getting paid over 10 yrs MJ never got paid just reasonable 2 yrs,

Jordan never took less to play for the Bulls. His last few years he made $30M to $35M. I’m sure him and his agent never thought of deferring his salary

Sorry, you still have Roberts . What’s the use of having a Ferrari if it won’t run???

​@@kendraadman7229yes I hate Robert's managing too

Yeah, before I learned about the deferrals, I thought this deal was a disaster. Knowing that, if I'm Toronto I'd have offered a billion dollars lol but to commit $700,000,000 to a DH with two Tommy Johns and 0 career playoff games is a pretty dumb move; he didn't want to leave LA anyway, he'd probably have signed for $500MM. He was an idiot for ever signing with the Angels, I swear he must have meant the Dodgers when he signed with the Angels 6 years ago lol

@@JackieDaytona1776 maybe Angeles said they would trade him to the dodgers

@@JackieDaytona1776Whole lot of yapping

Most of that deferred money that Shohei gets at the end will be even less because of inflation and opportunity costs.

@@Will-si5ps I'm sure he's accounted for that and it clearly doesn't matter to him 🤷🏻‍♀️ It's a win cause he doesn't tie his team down financially & they get to compete.

​@@Will-si5pseven if you account for inflation, he will still be one of the highest paid ball players after his contract gets over. By doing this contract he has increased his chances of getting a ring or two which will further increase his endorsement money(the very reason he was able to do this contract in the first place), he is already making upwards of 45 million through endorsements without any rings, a ring will skyrocket these numbers in the coming years. Also after a certain money number, people start to think more about accomplishments and legacy, he is already the highest earning ball player, I don't think he is thinking about money a lot now and is focussing more on the winning aspect. All set and done, he would 100% cross the 1 billion mark in earnings via his salary and endorsements. And lemme till you one thing 1 billion dollars is still a lot of money even if you account for inflation.

@@Will-si5pssure it’ll be less but that’s still ALOT of money

Ohtani and Dodgers will still choke and I can’t wait to see it

I hope the Dodgers win a title! The pressure will be on

You sound as delusional as a lakers fan.. oh wait you probably are one of those too

As a Japanese, I prefer our Japanese star players spread around, I want to see them competing, I hope the other players dont go to LAD.

佐々木は1シーズンローテーションを守ったことがなく規定投球回数もクリアしたことがない。メジャーなど今の体力では無理だ。

@@taka0359 そうだね。でも大谷もケガしてほとんど欠場した翌年にMLB行ったけどな。むこうに行ってから競いながら鍛えるという手もあるかも。山本と違って25歳以下なので、国際ルールに則って契約金は微々たるもんだし、どこの球団にも行ける。

But he’s very unique and one of a kind. He’s only going to show certain players you can count on your hands with on how to do it. Most players don’t have $50 in endorsements or a very wealthy country in Japan that will endorse him.

Ohtani is willing to take a 240 million hit in todays dollars Because he suggested it This is something the league and players association agreed to No one takes this because they don’t make as much as Ohtani and money never really seems to matter to him And plus he makes tons off the field And sounds like he will just convert the money he is owed when he is retired to ownership shares

Lmao

Future California's Governors will hold him hostage to pay all them taxes!!

Yeah that's not how taxes work.

Doesn't work that way. He's a green card holder, IRS requires an exit tax. Just ask Boris Johnson. There is no way to escape the IRS not even Ohtani

Before Ohtani got injured he played 122 out of 124 games The weekend he got injured he played 3 games over 2 nights starting the first game off with a complete game

His pitching days are over tho. 2 ucl injuries . 1 Tommy john. An additional surgery. He never really hurts anything else tho.

He was never going to return to the Angels. He wants to win now. Angels aren't anywhere close to winning.

@@jenniferhamels1176 He's saying they shoulda traded him last season at the deadline to get something back in return instead of letting him get to free agency.

There’s no way he was returning to Orange County, coming from a lifetime angels fan up north now in PNW, dodgers were the only true team who will continue for years that was able to get him. Angels dropped the ball the moment they got him from Japan by showing they weren’t willing to build around him n Trout.

@@DLokes0819 Still dont understand where the disconnect is....He's saying they shoulda traded him last season at the deadline to get something back in return instead of letting him get to free agency. No one is saying that the Angels could have kept him....

The Angels wasn't going to get much for Shohei this past season if he was dealt. Shohei and his agent were not signing an extension with any team. They could have gotten a lot if Shohei was traded 2 season ago though, but not last season.

I think it's all on Ohtani...

Absolutely. The only thing stopping it is if Yamamoto wants to play with someone else but I doubt it.

@@Deerjason I heard Yamamoto grew up being a Dodger fan. Andrew Friedman only speaks when it’s time to say checkmate.

@@gelo_b95 dodgers are preparing to make a super team Jesus. They will get all the Japan money and be able to pay for even more stars. Wouldn’t be surprised if the dodgers get Sasaki also.

I wonder if he will take the same type of deal like ohtani?

@@Deerjason better win multiple rings with that amount of talent. 2 rings in the next 5 yrs.

May god hear you

Well, that would be a dream come true... Trout really needs a break.

Wait until the dodgers sign both Yamamoto and Sasaki somehow. It is definitely possible if they both want to play for the dodgers since Sasaki can’t get paid much. Two aces on the mound and a crazy batting order, like wth.

He will get a few of them for the next 10 years !

They won a ring not to long ago. Stop with proper non sense. Everyone had to play to win. Stop that it was only a 60 game season. Teams still had to play. 182 games is crazy also why would that matter if the season was shortened? We see that baseball in the postseason regular season record doesn’t matter. It’s who’s hot during the playoffs.

When he was with his Japanese team, he lived in the dorms and his Mom gave him $1,000 / month allowance (they managed his money).

Baseball is the one sport where anything can happen and luck plays a MAJOR factor. So absolutely you are right this doesn’t guarantee anything. Brilliant move from a business standpoint though, maybe the best business move in all of sports, ever.

It's an absolutely terrible deal for Shohei. By deferring 680 million for 10 years, he loses interest on 680 for 10 full years (its paid out over 10 years, starting in 10). So he loses hundreds of millions of dollars that he would've had by earning during the next 10 years and the team gets it. That's why they're saying it's so team friendly. They would've had to double or more the next best offer to pay him this way and it be worth it. In terms of pure math, terrible deal for Shohei vs being paid now. Team wins big.

@@Sidious6460 His AAV is the highest in MLB history. It's a terrible deal if you think he should get paid $700M. The deal is basically $460M for 10 years. Also, he's dodging California taxes if he moves elsewhere after the contract.

that's what folks said about the Padres last year

@@corywhite6098 All I'm saying is if you had to bet money on any team right now, you would be silly not to bet on the Dodgers for the next 10 years. Sports books will agree.

Yup, competitive balance officially thrown out the window!!

@@Vhc706ok then bet on them if you’re sure of it, because they’ve proved many times you can’t take them serious, if the Rockies made the postseason next year they would eliminate the choking dodgers lmaoo it’s a constant cycle at this point, no one is scared of them regardless of who they have on their roster… I’d take Atlanta and the Phillies in the NL right now over them any day! Diamondbacks are up there too… Houston and Texas would beat them in a 7 game series if we’re talking about teams in the AL

​@@corywhite6098barely anyone said that about the Padres last year.

“ 17 huh? “

Not many because players want money now, not later. Ken Griffey jr did it and so did Bobby Bonilla.

I doubt it will happen to that level again, because human nature will say you need to get paid now.

I bet NONE. Ohtani is unique and making tens of millions (50 million) per year in endorsements and will likely make even more in endorsements playing for a higher profile team like the Dodgers. He will be just fine financially even deferring most of the contract. Other players want their money ASAP.

@seymoresmithh8908 I can understand that. But how many higher level superstar players would do this so the team can build around them? You are still gonna get paid eventually. And if you are a superstar, you will have endorsement money to carry you into the deferred payments kick in. Only players I think wouldn't do this are mid to lower level players. Those are the ones that gonna try n squeeze everything they can while they can

@@broncoramfan Are you saying that most above average players are going to do this? If so, I'm skeptical about that. The current trend among players is not to defer. If I got you wrong, sorry!

It feels a lil desperate and any world series will come w an asterisk

We expected an annual luxury tax hit of around 45m dollars (you don't simply divide the salary, you do it based on the Net Present Value divided by years of contract. Based on this deal that cap hit is going to be 46m. It would be insane to end up in a future state where you had one billion dollars committed over ten years for players not on the roster.

All contracts in baseball are guaranteed..

It's not a genius move for Shohei. It's just a very team friendly deal

@@WilliamPeregoysounds like he’s gonna try to beat California taxes with this contract. He’ll retire after 10 years and leave USA with most of his 680 million

All if it is guaranteed

​@@NarikvpNo. Everyone working for a California corporation is required to pay California income tax. Tech companies have ways around it but not the Dodgers

Where did you see about this 4%? I didn't see anything about it. I read that it is 0 interest rate deal

​@jeantarble It is. It's been estimated now that without the interest and accounting for inflation, this comes out to more like 10/460 million when all is said and done

@@jeantarble if that’s true the. The Dodgers basically got him for 460 million

So you're saying it's basically tax evasion? Then why hadn't anyone else done it to this degree?

Why should ohtani pay for the American military or American debt....

@@manjidrift there you go.

@ndradoh so with your genius are you going to advise him to call JG Wenthworth…you know since after year 10 he is receiving the deferred salary as an annuity NOT a lump sum 😅

Not necessarily “under the table” but rather a legitimate option contract would be my guess

I ask the same question. Nobody is talking about what this does in the long term to the organization after he and most certainly the rest of the current team is gone

If the Dodgers don't betray or backstab Shohei in any way in the next ten years, I think it's reasonable to assume that Ohtani has plans to redistribute his deferred fortunes some way or the other in the future. It takes character to defer 98% of your salary. A man with such character will most likely use his deferred money in ways that won't hurt the team.

They would probably renegotiate in 10 years and ohtani will probably make more money … they might push it to 15 years and add more money

I disagree, I don't see why deferrals would impact teams if they're able to afford the AAV. If the dodgers get charged $46M AAV per year for ohtani's salary, that goes towards their luxury tax threshold each year for only the first 10 years. After 10 years, ohtani's salary no longer goes towards that threshold. for the deferral payments of $68M, the dodgers can just put the $44M per year ($46M AAV minus $2M) that they don't have to pay now in an interest bearing account, and they should have the $68M per year to pay ohtani in the future.

Buha.. you poverty stricken minds!! By those ten years later Ohtani would bring in all that money in marketing money to the team, ending up paying his own salary!!