December 8, 20232 yr Ohtani is flying to Toronto just to pick up a little Putine, then he is flying into Houston to sign with the Stros. Brown you sand bagging little turd!
December 8, 20232 yr Wow Toronto? Ohtani really loves mediocre teams. I thought the original Angels signing was an odd choice when it happened. It will be interesting to see what Anaheim does once he's officially gone, they should be having a firesale and be one of the worst teams in the league next year. The AL West is going to look weird with the A's and Angels as 2 of the 3 worst teams in the league, and the Astros, Rangers and Mariners all shooting for 90+ wins.
December 8, 20232 yr If Toronto, I sure hope Shoehei’s people make sure the contract is denominated in 500M USD, not CAD. (that’ll be $9.95….USD)
December 8, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said: The AL West is going to look weird with the A's and Angels as 2 of the 3 worst teams in the league, and the Astros, Rangers and Mariners all shooting for 90+ wins. Soooo, just like 2023?
December 8, 20232 yr On 12/6/2023 at 10:35 PM, Helobious said: Volpe, Gleyber, Rizzo, Judge, Soto, Stanton, Dominguez after he comes back from injury, Verdugo, DJL, Austin Wells. Oh and Cole and the Yamamoto guy from Japan at the top of the rotation. Get off the fucking tracks when the train comes through you need professional hitters in the postseason. guys who can grind out at bats, wear down pitching staffs, get to the bullpen early, etc. your new lineup has two guys who scare me, and a bunch of guys who like to k on three pitches. y’all got a long way to go before anybody fears that lineup in october.
December 8, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said: Wow Toronto? Ohtani really loves mediocre teams. I thought the original Angels signing was an odd choice when it happened. It will be interesting to see what Anaheim does once he's officially gone, they should be having a firesale and be one of the worst teams in the league next year. The AL West is going to look weird with the A's and Angels as 2 of the 3 worst teams in the league, and the Astros, Rangers and Mariners all shooting for 90+ wins. the lights would he too bright with the dodgers and im curious to see the opt outs
December 8, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Dutchrudder said: Wow Toronto? Ohtani really loves mediocre teams. I thought the original Angels signing was an odd choice when it happened. It will be interesting to see what Anaheim does once he's officially gone, they should be having a firesale and be one of the worst teams in the league next year. The AL West is going to look weird with the A's and Angels as 2 of the 3 worst teams in the league, and the Astros, Rangers and Mariners all shooting for 90+ wins. Rangers and Astros are good teams, they win against good teams. But it helps to pad the stats when you play those two crap teams quite a bit.
December 8, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said: The AL West is going to look weird with the A's and Angels as 2 of the 3 worst teams in the league, and the Astros, Rangers and Mariners all shooting for 90+ wins. You seem to have missed the Mariners' offseason so far...
December 9, 20232 yr Someone lie to me and tell me the Yankees are about to pull and coup and have the best off-season in the history of professional sports. Which is exactly what it would be.
December 9, 20232 yr Someone lie to me and tell me the Yankees are about to pull and coup and have the best off-season in the history of professional sports. Which is exactly what it would be.Why the fuck would anyone purposely want to lie about that?
December 9, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, Helobious said: Someone lie to me and tell me the Yankees are about to pull and coup and have the best off-season in the history of professional sports. Which is exactly what it would be. Remember that offseason when the Eagles got Nnamdi Asomugha, Vince Young, and a few other people…and Sportscenter and Sportscenter Quote Dorks (like you) kept talking about how unstoppable the eagles would be. then the Eagles sucked that season. Like sucked shit through a straw. that’s gonna be the Yankees this year. But we’ll get to hear Sportscenter laud over them. And we’ll get to read the Sportscenter talking points, verbatim, from our favorite valley boy. and we’ll all be like… and Shohei isn’t going there either. Edited December 9, 20232 yr by Trey3216
December 9, 20232 yr Someone lie to me and tell me the Yankees are about to pull and coup and have the best off-season in the history of professional sports. Which is exactly what it would be.The Yankees are about to land Shohei and have the best offseason in the history of professional sports.You should go ahead and bet your life savings on a Yankees title in 2024. It’s a lock.
December 9, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, NYCHORN2013 said: WOW Shohei to the Dodgers, ten years $700mm Not shocked about either part of that
December 9, 20232 yr Huge over pay for on field production. But with the merchandise, tv revenue, and misc it'll pay for itself.
December 9, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, NYCHORN2013 said: WOW Shohei to the Dodgers, ten years $700mm That comes to about $433,000 per game. Holy crap.
December 9, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Jshep34 said: Huge over pay for on field production. But with the merchandise, tv revenue, and misc it'll pay for itself. his off field revenue just increased
December 9, 20232 yr Good for Ohtani! This is a landmark contract in North American pro sports, especially for a foreign born athlete. Now he gets to finally play in meaningful games and gets paid like he should. I think he is worth far more as a player, but with the endorsements he’ll be racking up here as well as back home he is easily going to be pulling down well over 100m a year. It’s hard not to like him as a player and he seems like a pretty cool person when he’s not playing ball.
December 9, 20232 yr This mean Dodgers won the off season asking so I know who to expect to win the world series this year
December 9, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, UpperWestside said: Now he gets to finally play in meaningful games Maybe they’ll even make it past the division series this year!
December 9, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, texashorne said: That comes to about $433,000 per game. Holy crap. Well you also have to factor in the five playoff games he'll play in every year.
December 9, 20232 yr Author 10 minutes ago, Sbbruin said: That’s what you went with for your Ohtani to the Dodgers celebration post? Edited December 9, 20232 yr by TonyTexas
December 9, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, UpperWestside said: Good for Ohtani! This is a landmark contract in North American pro sports, especially for a foreign born athlete. Now he gets to finally play in meaningful games and gets paid like he should. I think he is worth far more as a player, but with the endorsements he’ll be racking up here as well as back home he is easily going to be pulling down well over 100m a year. It’s hard not to like him as a player and he seems like a pretty cool person when he’s not playing ball. He’s not worth more than 700M as a player dude. It’s probably fair value. If he comes back and pitches well. It’s a comical overpay if that part of his career is done. Edited December 9, 20232 yr by Wulaw Horn
December 9, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, formermav43 said: Maybe they’ll even make it past the division series this year! Look anything past May for him is good on the meaningful games side. The Angels were like the Mets of the West Coast. They are there, but does anyone really care?
December 9, 20232 yr 9 minutes ago, speed817 said: Rangers being cheap again /s He was never gonna live in Dallas. Sorry home slice
December 9, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Wulaw Horn said: He’s not worth more than 700M as a player dude. It’s probably fair value. If he comes back and pitches well. It’s a comical overpay if that part of his career is done. He is absolutely worth more than that once he starts pitching again in 2025. He is pretty much worth whatever the market says he is worth though and this year it has this as his price. 70 million is nice, but he could’ve gotten more if he really wanted to dig in his heels for a bigger payday. I want to see guys get paid whatever they can take away from an owner. The more for them the merrier.
December 9, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, Sbbruin said: Lots of $ for a guy with 2 more Tommy Johns than playoff AB or IP
December 9, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said: So are we talking with interest deferrals where he will be getting supersized Bobby Bonilla payments until he’s in his 60’s?
December 9, 20232 yr Author Rosenthal’s tweet above is dumb. Deferrals do nothing to ease the luxury tax hit. His AAV is $70M/yr. regardless Edited December 9, 20232 yr by TonyTexas
December 9, 20232 yr Does he really make that much off the field in the USA? I've seen one New Balance commercial and he has always seemed super private (which is absolutely his prerogative). This contract is such a huge amount of money if I were Ohtani one of my first thoughts would be that I never have to be in a commercial again.
December 9, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, UpperWestside said: He is absolutely worth more than that once he starts pitching again in 2025. He is pretty much worth whatever the market says he is worth though and this year it has this as his price. 70 million is nice, but he could’ve gotten more if he really wanted to dig in his heels for a bigger payday. I want to see guys get paid whatever they can take away from an owner. The more for them the merrier. He couldn’t have. He also deferred more than half his salary. So he’s not even worth 700M. Look dude- baseball has a very very very clear way of valuation. We know when production is overpaid and we know when it’s underpaid. It’s incredibly likely he doesn’t hit as many WAR as dollars he collects. Like- really really likely he has leas than 75 or so WAR over the next 10 years.
December 9, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, TonyTexas said: Rosenthal’s tweet above is dumb. Deferrals do nothing to ease the luxury tax burden. His AAV is $70M/yr. regardless Only money paid out for years the player is signed to actually play count towards AAV. So in theory if he had $100 million of his contract deferred to be paid out years 11-15 from now, that money would not count towards AAV. Maybe try learning about the sport before you post.
December 9, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Huckleberry said: Does he really make that much off the field in the USA? I've seen one New Balance commercial and he has always seemed super private (which is absolutely his prerogative). This contract is such a huge amount of money if I were Ohtani one of my first thoughts would be that I never have to be in a commercial again. The crush of media from Japan will probably make the Ichiro following of Japanese media look small in comparison. Companies will throw money at him here and back home. It’s up to him to decide how much he wants and if the time spent doing it is worth it to him personally. 70 million sounds awesome to me, but I am not and never will be in a position to make 9 figures a year like Ohtani can.
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