The Los Angeles Dodgers may have paid $700 million for baseball’s hitter-pitcher unicorn but according to some sports analysts the team may have got one of the greatest baseball bargains when they signed Shohei Ohtani.
The global superstar has already brought in $120 million to the Dodgers in his first year alone, reported Fox 11 News. Mr. 50-50 broke records on and off the field, skyrocketing baseball park attendance, merchandise sales and viewership for Dodger games at home and on the road. They’re calling it “The Shohei Ohtani Effect.”
Ohtani structured a team-friendly contract that allowed the Dodgers to pay him only $2 million a year and the rest at the end of his 10-year term.
In other words, Dodgers came out way ahead in Ohtani’s first year, $100 million ahead. L.A. has the ‘unicorn’ for another nine years so the sky is the limit for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers.