One thing about Shohei that differentiates him from other players is his personality. He is never a showman. He always considers others first with gratitude and respectfulness. If you look at his Baseball Goal Chat sheet he created at the age of 15, you know almost everything about Shohei. Pedro Martinez did, and he is convinced that Shohei, with the Goal Chart sheet, should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
HAROLD! Nice meeting you yesterday! Me and my son were very happy! He's a baseball player and I tell him the story of Fred Mcgiff that you mentioned a while back.
Okay, Bob, but you could at least explain the reason why it would be diminished if Ohtani was in Toronto: Networks don't show games from Toronto because they don't get the ad revenue from the Canadian market.
Shohei ohtani is a dodger and I am so happy because I know in my mind that he wasn't going to be no Blue Jays and I knew that he was going to sign with the dodgers and it's a good feeling that we have him he's a winner and he's going go to his first playoff appearance and win a championship with the dodgers and all those people say that y'all are dodger fans stop it no you're not dodgers number #1 baby the new Big 3 🎇🎇🎇🎇💙
Wow, way to flex your Dodger arrogance. It gives me an even lower opinion of the already low perception I have for many a Californian and their far left agenda.
Relax... take a breath, and buy some punctuation.😄 I'll be a Dodger fan, and more importantly a Shohei fan if I want to. You're not the only one exclusively entitled to Dodger fandom.
The disrespect to Toronto. We are a team in this league and you have a responsibility to elevate baseball as a writer. Disrespect. Detrimental narrative.
Of course you take the field (of the other MLB teams to reach the postseason) to eventually win the World Series in 2024, rather than the LOS ANGELES DODGERS - or, for that matter, any other No. 1-ranked team; it’s simply a mathematical equation due to all of the playoff rounds to be navigated. That is simply the unpredictable nature of this great game of Major League Baseball. Let’s go DODGERS 2024 !!! ⚾️⚾️⚾️ ROGER, The LOS ANGELES DODGER
Bob Costas was so blatant in his favoritism in his call of the NLDS that he would’ve been fired and ostracized immediately if he called it that way in favor of Arizona. He unapologetically loves the Dodgers and cannot help but show his bias. Now Toronto fans get a little snip of it here too.
I disagree with Bob's assesment of the impact Ohtani would have had in Toronto. Yes, the LA Dodgers are right now a much larger market with more eyes on it than Toronto, however if Ohtani went to the Blue Jays, the entire country of Canada would be Ohtani fans. Youre talking 2 entire countries being represented by one player (Canada and Japan). Ohtani going to the Blue Jays would have opened up expansion opportunities in Canada. Maybe Montreal would get their team back, and maybe Ottawa would hop in too. Who knows?
I disagree with you because sure he was not coming to the Toronto Blue Jays and you knew that you need to cut it out and stop it don't get mad because he wasn't going to Toronto he wasn't going to win their and you know.
@BigRedd-wx6wd I mean I never said I thought he would go there, I'm just saying that contrary to what most people are saying I think if he did, it would have been great for baseball. Get your head out of your ass and read next time.
They play baseball in the summer, you simpleton. Toronto gets as hot as Egypt with humidity. Also, there's nothing wrong with the cold. It takes a tougher person to live in Winter. You would never survive up here. Also, I've seen how angelinos drive in the rain. Pathetic.
Bob no disrespect, but your absolutely wrong. Ohtani has set the new high-tide water mark for contracts for Japanese players and its affected all Japanese free agents. Just look at the final contract numbers for Yamamoto that will be coming soon.
This diminishes baseball Bob. When the top players go to the Dodgers and Yankees that also diminishes MLB. Toronto is a big enough market he would have thrived here. I don't totally disagree with Bob but do some homework first. Seeing the Dodgers lose to the Diamondbacks and the Yankees not make playoffs was a delight to a lot of fans eyes.
Yep. However, he’s making more than 700 mil by the time the dodgers start paying that deferred money because of his marketing assuming it keeps trending. 50+mil last year alone. Will be much more this year and onwards. Without even touching the deferred money
A salary of $80,000 in 1931 would equate to a minimum of $1,370,000 today, adjusted for the Consumer Price Index, which, of course, deliberately underreports actual real inflation; for instance, food and energy prices are excluded due to their volatile nature. ⚾️⚾️⚾️ ROGER, The LOS ANGELES DODGER
For the past decade.. maybe 2 decades.. people who know and love Baseball, have lamented it's ever shrinking popularity. BASEBALL needs a "Renaissance" .. and THIS BOOST of popularity and attention to Baseball WORLDWIDE. The Dodgers getting him.. and expanding his reach and BASEBALL POPULARITY is a no brainer GREAT thing for baseball.
@@Jeremyslade-c2q But those 'same 4 teams' aren't holding the crown every season. The KC Royals have a more recent World Series title than the Yankees or Mets. The Rays out-perform the Yankees and Red Sox more and more regularly. What's wrong with having some 'little guy' small market underdogs, along with a few mighty luxury favorites, to compliment much of a mid-market field. Such is life. . . it makes the David versus Goliath upsets all the more sweeter_
Yeah. I don't get the whole being bad for the game part. It makes sense for Ohtani to pick LA over Toronto simply because he's going to make a lot more money off the field and they offered him the largest contract. Plus, being on the West coast is just something most Asian players prefer.
Nobody knows who Ohtani is other than the US, Japan and fringe countries who play baseball. He's not a global brand like soccer players are. Messi is getting 674 million over 4 years from Miami (includes his profit share). Mbappe makes 72 million euros a year in wages alone for PSG. Cristiano Ronaldo's wage is 200 million per year in Saudi. Benzema's wage is 100 million per year. Etc. It's just not comparable.
@@KryMoore I'm commenting on the idea in the show that Ohtani is in the same worldwide popularity realm as Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan. Absolutely not. In the US... maybe. But that's it.
@@lecannois I will take the US over most of the world. Most of the world sucks too. Soccer is only popular because its cheap to play. You only need a ball. Most of the world is poor
Sorry bob but on this when you're dead wrong. The reason you're dead wrong is because the man hasn't done anything yet. Babe ruth michael jordan paley all of those people you mentioned all one multiple championships. Show high hotani hasn't even been to a division playoff yet. I get it,He is a magnificent 2 way unicorn. WHAT HAS HE DONE? Let's wait and see what the next 5 years look like.
Seeing a big market team circumvent the tax threshold is upsetting. MLB doesn’t care, because they’ll get eyes from overseas, but for fans of small market teams, I won’t be surprised if this turns them off completely. Watching baseball isn’t an essential daily function. But again, MLB doesn’t care at all if those fans go away.
@@brucegelman5582 You pay for that. The money doesn't come out of nowhere just because we like the guy. Every family that goes to the ball park and buys hot dogs and jerseys is why this can happen. Nothing sick about it when said average American making 50 or 60k a year willingly helps pay another man 700 million out of their pockets.
Well thank goodness that earning those figures isn't the end goal, or highest glory in life. The human heart cannot be ultimately satisfied with anything but God. A godless society will chase a fulfilling contentment in many a thing, but never find it.
What's the over/under on Ohtani playing the full ten years of his contract? I will take the under. Ohtani is basically a DH. He doesn't play in the field, and he's injury prone. He won't pitch in 2025, and there is no guarantee he will come back and be as good as he was, since he had issues coming back from the first TJ surgery. The Dodgers have too much money, if they can shell out $700M for one player.
Name me a pitcher who is NOT injury prone. Pitchers get injured, rehab, and eventually return all the time now in this current era. Why would anyone project ANYONE to be the next Stephen Strasburg without just cause.
He's being paid as a two-way player, and he's had his second elbow surgery in a few years. That's not a good track record. He also has had other injuries, such as the one that caused him to miss about the final month of the 2023 season. Players get hurt more often as they get into their thirties, and production declines, unless they are using PEDs. @@milton480h
Yeah, that might be true. I'm pretty sure that'll change in a few years, though. And when you're talking about something going global, it doesn't only mean "known in USA". The fact that, be it a few or not, some people in countries like Czechia or Thailand know Ohtani's name is incredible in itself. Such a thing never happened before.
One would assume that the Dodgers did their due diligence in examining Shohei's medical records, just as teams did with Carlos Correa. No one is paying that kinda💲for avg joe dh. They full well expect him to take the mound eventually. Just to put it into perspective, Wins Above Replacement(WAR) over the last 3 seasons combined: Shohei- 28.7 Judge- 21.0 Soto- 18.2 Harper- 12.1 Franchises are paying for marketing, branding, local broadcast ratings, fans in stands, the building of a World Series contender...
News flash.Pitching and hitting isnt physically sustainable.The human bodies muscles and tendons and interstitial membranes cant sustain the stress over repeated effort.He is only viable as one or the other long term.
He doesn't play a position he DHs lifetime and pitches once every 5-6 days there's nothing unsustainable about that. These guys don't sit around eating burgers and watching TV like you. They take immaculate care of their bodies with world class physicians and trainers. Didn't Bill Ripken play like 2000 consecutive games at one of the most physically demanding position in baseball? Sorry your team missed out on Ohtani.
I love Ohtani, I believe he is even getting better as a hitter, but career 755 k's to 351bb is no comparison to Ruth or Jordan or Ali...or even Juan Soto as far as hitting.
How is this good for baseball? The he same 3 or 4 teams buying players to trying a win a ship, he isn’t global he is US and Japan no one is Germany cares about him
