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Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:27 am
by lambrini
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 2:20 pm
by Carlos J
He's a pitcher and a batter. Is also a free agent and baseball players can play on in age, plus he will sell a lot of merch. So what's the problem?
Well, as the BBC article says, he's just had surgery. In fact, in 2018 he had Tommy John surgery, * He's just had further surgery on his UCL, will be able to bat in 2024, but not pitch until 2025:
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/shoh ... or-return/
So the elbow is already a risk and will only get worse. For pitching that is. What effect it will have on his batting is unknown. But I doubt he will manage 10 full seasons without some break.
Even so, the Dodgers will make a lot of the money back, so probably worth the gamble.
* I love the name, Tommy John surgery, named after the pitcher it was first performed on:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_c ... nstruction
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:23 pm
by lambrini
700-mil. That's crazy.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:36 am
by Vespa
Good luck to the guy but such a dull sport.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:45 am
by The Ghost of Alex Higgins
You a catcher or a pitcher Vesp-o?
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:22 am
by Vespa
I sit on the side lines these days but when I did play I was very flexible.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:33 pm
by 9 to 5
lambrini wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:23 pm
700-mil. That's crazy.
Aye you said twice!
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:01 pm
by Sid Pervcat
700 mil? That's crazy!
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:49 pm
by chelseachelsea
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:02 pm
by The Ghost of Alex Higgins
700-mil. That's crazy.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:05 pm
by theleader82
Baseball used to be a popular past time in the uk many years ago. It declined after ww2. I imagine it evolved from rounders, one of the few sports I was good at. It v popular in South Korea, cuba and dominican republic also.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:29 pm
by lambrini
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:29 pm
by lambrini
Cray cray cray
Cray.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:58 am
by antdad
Don't know anything about U.S sport. How does that work out in contractual reality?
He isn't really going to be at the club for ten years nor earn that total fee or is he?
Asking for a friend, Enzo.
Re: Baseball: Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with Dodgers
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2023 2:49 pm
by Carlos J
antdad wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:58 am
Don't know anything about U.S sport. How does that work out in contractual reality?
He isn't really going to be at the club for ten years nor earn that total fee or is he?
Asking for a friend, Enzo.
A lot of deferment. See here and links from it:
https://redbirdrants.com/posts/can-sala ... hhfgj97kxj
And here:
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/s ... th-dodgers
There's NFL players who retired years ago still getting paid, as was this Basketball player:
https://brobible.com/sports/article/uta ... er-wright/ Though it was probably for his own good and they maybe thought he would be dead before they paid it all.
