Shohei Ohtani About to Make Another Home Run: A $65 Million Contract!
Anaheim of Los Angeles of California of the One Nation Under A Groove, Getting Down For The Funk Of It, in the World Baseball Classic.

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We gotta say it, Shohei Ohtani is the best player in baseball. Period. He’s just coming off the heels of striking out the other best player in baseball, Mike Trout, whom he happens to be teammates with on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Los Angeles of California of the One Nation Under A Groove, Getting Down For The Funk Of It, in the World Baseball Classic.
Sounds Like a Good Season for Ohtani
This MLB season, Ohtani will make $35M from the Angels and $40M in endorsements, making him the highest-paid baseball player and one of the highest-paid athletes meandering this planet.
Some would argue he’s underpaid, being he is the most dynamic athlete in the sport since Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson patrolled outfields while still dominating the NFL, as well as being the rarest jewel of all: a position player who can pitch at a Cy Young level.
Move Over Babe Ruth, Ohtani Is Coming
Outside of Babe Ruth, we’ve not seen a player like Ohtani in nearly a century.
Clayton Kershaw has more career shutouts than Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander combined; Babe Ruth has more career shutouts than Clayton Kershaw. pic.twitter.com/KNVt8en7Da
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 21, 2023
This comes as no shock as specialization has been the focus of baseball managers and executives since the advent of the modern minor league system, and since Mickey Mantle’s dad forced his son to bat the opposite of his dominant hand.
On top of all of this, it is a contract year for the Japanese star, and, as someone who loves the New York Mets more than I do my blood relatives, I’m asking Steve Cohen to throw an entire bank at Ohtani to bring him to Queens.
My post-Bonilla fever dreams aside, Ohtani is on-track for what may be the most lucrative contract in all of the sports.
MLB’s Other Best-Paid Players
According to sources, Ohtani will be making $65M in 2023, ahead of both Max Scherzer and Aaron Judge, the latter being the first American League player to hit over 60 home runs since fellow Yankee Roger Maris in 1961, but not attaining the real record set by Barry Bonds and the technicians at Balco nearly two decades ago.
The record counts… I don’t care what you say. He did it, it’s done. Move on.
Judge will make $360M over the life of a newly signed nine-year deal that will more than likely be Judge’s last deal, but baseball is weird, so who knows what the fuck will happen.
Aaron Judge is not a fan of Daffy Duck ✍️
Noted. 🤣
(via @Yankees) pic.twitter.com/fDBlnKqtJC
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Scherzer is in his second year of a three-year $130M contract with the Mets, looking to lead the MLB team to the promised land alongside former Tiger teammate Justin Verlander, who signed his own two-year $86 million deal this past winter
The latter three players I’ve talked about are mainly the reason why the Yankees (+750) and the Mets (+850) are two of the top teams behind the Astros (+650) to walk out World Series Champions.
Commissioner’s Trophy
Conversely, The Angels are +4000 to walk out with the Commissioner’s trophy due to a myriad of issues that exist and run much deeper than the team having literally the two best baseball players on the planet and squandering their talents and their prime by making moves that even Charles Finley would call quixotic.
But despite that, the Yankees and the Mets maybe two of the big players looking to pull Ohtani next season, and with a potential $500M asking price, only two real bidders may be able to hash that kind of deal out with the superstar pitcher/home run-hitting god.
Which Team Will Take the Next Step?
The Mets and the Dodgers are both well-funded teams run by people who will throw money at something to get what they want.
With the richest deal in the history of the sport on the inching in, which team will make the move?
Who knows… To be completely honest, as with the Moreno family reneging on plans to sell the maligned franchise, the Angels may trade Ohtani this season and incite a bidding war before a bidding war.
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