Shohei Ohtani deserves the $700M!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
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If billionaires are willing to pay you $700M, then you are worth that much. Stop being salty haters.
Facts. Because if they willing to pay you 700 million just imagine what they’re making off him
UHH OHTANI MAKING 50 MILL A YEAR IN ENDORSEMENT. AND NEXT YR IT WILL BE 60 MILLION....70 MILL IS A BARGAIN FOR DODGERS
Simple facts!
Fr why are guys acting like the $ is coming out of their pocket lmao. Also, he’s only making $2m a year and the rest is deferred, which means the Dodgers get to make money on him up front while he’s still playing and in his prime, and then use that to pay the bulk of the contract later. Which means they’re not going to be operating at any loss from him. It’s a great deal for the Dodgers, since $ is always worth more now than later.
What a 180 degree turn around, within 3 days?!?!? Capitalism says that if someone is willing to pay, then he deserves it. It is just that simple ... and it turns out this is THE most team-friendly contract in the MLB history. In a perfect scenario (that Shohei stays healthy and does Pitching & hitting for multiple years), Dodger just collect all the profit Shohei Ohtani generated over the 10 years and maybe use part of it to pay Shohei after his contract is done!
Dude this man has finally said something I can agree with. Ohtani baby let get it
Everyone admires greatness, if we could tell our grandchildren we saw Ohtani play in his prime, what other athlete is worth watching more in sports.
True that
How come you completely contradict everything you said about this man for the last 2 years lol....
Whatever he can to keep his job
didn't this guy SAS say he is not even worth 500 mil?
Because he didn't sellout tickets for angels and low tv ratings + he couldn't take them to the playoffs. SAS now is only being respectful
the dodgers basically own shohei's brand with no opt outs etc and he will forever be known as a dodger now so THATS what they bought
They announced today there is an opt out clause for him
Ohtani was already making 70 mil with the Angels last year, 30mil mlb salary, and 40mil from endorsements. If you think he doesn't deserve it you're just hating lmao
He's gonna be making more than 70 mil from endorsements this year 😂
Angels pay 30 mil to him last year?
@@mikechan2942 yes angels paid ohtani 30M last year behind rendon and trout. 2023 season was supposed to be Ohtani's arbitration year and he could have demanded astronomical sum of money from the angels but he didnt even placed his desired numbers he just took the $30M initial offer of the angels which i feel is a bargain considering Ohtani brought at minimum upwards of $40 million im revenue for the angels(tv deals with japan, advertisments, merch tickets and stuff).
That's correct. @@mikechan2942
@@mikechan2942 Yes. He went into arbitration and won.
He’s worth it bc he’s good. Not bc he’s Asian.
All my family we all wear old and new #17 jersey plus we are book every game he play and we are from refugee from Vietnam.
Never saw so many baseball games on TV because of Shohei AND went to many games in the past 2.5 yrs since moving to CA! He is definitely box office plus my wife loves him! Enough said! Going to the Sept 3rd & 4th games against the Angels and probably when they play the Padres.
Agree, there are websites you can watch his games for free
Ohtani the Goat of all goats!
In general European sports don’t have a salary cap unlike American sports that’s the primary reason why
In 5 seasons, you will have a 1 billion dollar player. That's insane.
HE DESERVES MORE💙💙💙
Thank you Stephen A Smith. I am Asian and I am glad you are supportive of Ohtani. Ohtani is a nice and hardworking guy.
I think he is worth $700 million. Man is a superstar on all levels. My thing is that they spent 700 million on him and will still likely lose in the NLDS. I wish he stayed with Trout but I get why he left.
Losing in the NLDS while winning 100 games a year > Losing almost a hundred games every season and having no chance at winning anything 🤷♂️
He is only taking 2 million dollar/year for next 10 years. Leaving Dodgers with a lot of money to bring in more players.
Remember when he couldn't be the face of MLB?
Love ohtani but I don’t get the comparison with Ronaldo and messi. Their contract is bigger cos it’s triple/quadruple the amount per year. Total sum might be less, but everyone made it sound like ohtani is getting insane amount.
Well deserved and I definitely respect him for what he’s doing for the team than any monetary reward!
This guy SAS has no shame. He used to hate on ohtani. Now he is a brother. And all.about the money
Actually might be a bargain for the Dodgers. The present day value of the deal is in the $460 million range due to almost all of it being deferred. Add to that all his off the field value he brings the Dodgers. It's not as high a price as it first sounds. Imagine getting around $50 million for the next 10 years (mostly endorsements) and then $70 million a year for 10 years after that? I wouldn't even know how to spend that kind of money.
It's insane how team friendly this deal is.
214 million per year is crazy for a player. Only CR7 could get that. No MLB player, NBA player or NFL player will ever reach this money in the next years. You cant actually compare the biggest sport in the world to NFL, MLB and NBA.
Last thing I heard Stephen A say was Ohtani shouldn’t be a star because he didn’t speak English… he’s the racist
i agree. dude is a BEAST.
I felt that this was very respectful why are there so many SAS haters calling him racist?
Stephen asks why are athletes in America not paid as much as mega-stars abroad. Well, that's because they're soccer players and soccer has a larger market globally than do any North American sport. The main reason for that is because they have international competition. And the epitome of that is the World Cup. So, in short, soccer pays better than baseball because they have the WC as a major marketing tool for advertising and baseball doesn't. That's why MLB should embrace the WBC more than they do now! In a couple a decades, baseball can have a larger market than soccer if they invest more on international competition.
Sorry you r 50% right. the reality is that the average salary of north American sports leagues is still higher than the big 5 football leagues in Europe. Somehow the footballers salary is more diversified because of lack of players union n collective bargaining agreement. That makes the rich footballers are very rich, poor players are very poor( relatively).
@@carlnilssonyoung8961 Wow, you've made an excellent point there! Thanks, I've been educated.
SHOHEI OHTANI💙💙💙
Remember when you said he was HARMING the game because he didn’t speak English? 😂 😂😂😂😂 well well well
Messi was basically prime Jordan and Ronaldo prime Lebron. We can actually calculate what those two would make right now if they were 25 years old and the league had absolutely no restrictions on payroll. The highest payroll ever was the Warriors at 485 million a year (they had 785 million in revenue so that would be legal under European FFP rules). But because of the ridiculous restrictions on salary around 200 million of that 485 million went towards luxury tax. If a team had prime Jordan or Prime Lebron a payroll around 550 million (on the Lakers or Warriors) would be reasonable considering the extra revenue they would bring in .so if they gave 250 million to Jordan a year that would leave 300 million left to fill out the roster. Some team would happily do that. Lebron would likely get 200 million a year. Basketball is the only sport where if you remove one player the team can go from the best in the league to the worst. Which is exactly what happened when prime Lebron left Cleveland the first time. So if the same financial FairPlay rules in place in Europe were in place in the USA (you can spend all the revenue you bring in on players) then Jordan would get around 10 years 2.5 BILLION and Lebron around 10 years 2 billion.
Yea he’s getting paid a lot but these soccer/football stars get paid more yearly. Congrats to him tho get that bag
It’s only really Ronaldo and Messi. Ohtani is basically the highest paid athlete on after those two on a contract basis.
@@TatendaZiyambi Well........this didn't age well.
@@TatendaZiyambinext biggest free agent contract will likely be mbappe
He is that good, tho. I live in SF but went to an A's game with my family a year ago just to watch him play and he hit homerun #101 in the first inning. People were still buying their hotdogs but we were in our seats watching it happen. We haven't seen him pitch in person yet, so hopefully, we'll get a chance to see him next year when Dodgers come to town. Out of loyalty to the Giants, we'll have the Angels Ohtani jersey on and not the Dodger blue.
Yup, I agreed 👏. I’m a SF Giants Fan, but I’m buying a LA Dodgers Jersey sporting my guy “Ohtani” #17! Let’s go! 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 🙏
I agree with SAS this time.😂
I can imagine Kyrie reading this title.
I live in New Zealand and we don’t follow baseball at all. The only players I know are Babe Ruth and Shohei Ohtani.
For the contract to be worth it, Shohei still has to play like a stud for the next few years.
The contract is already worth it.
He'll be making 2M a year for the next decade thanks to the deferrals, and they'll make the other 680M back anyway through merchandise sales and advertisements.
We are very close to seeing the first billion dollar playa in major sports.
If super rich guys are willing to pay you 700mill, you can bet they be making 10x that off of you.
This is just Business
It's capitalism for the owners also and everyone else in the food chain.
No man or woman playing a sport of any kind is worth 700 million dollars, that's just how out of touch and oblivious people who think this is ok and he deserves it are to people out here struggling, do to no fault of their own, Gas prices are high, food prices and don't get me started on rent, and one man making 700 million to hit and throw a baseball, it's really sad, but hey it's the good ole UNITED STATES OF AMERICA..
What?
What on the earth did SAS say?
"Sit back, relax and enjoy my flaud"??
Our population is only around 320m with only a fraction of that watching any sport. Those soccer players are playing to a billion fans…
I am pretty sure that SAS is a racist against the Asian, based on the way he said "he deserves the money" at the end of the clip
Yeah, I saw that, too. But after all these years, it was kinda rewarding to see him say that in pure despair.
Lol! He deserves it.Dodgers will not make a decision like that for no reasons.. of course he is a superstar! He will bring lots of money for Dodgers!, now you know Shohei is worth that money😂
Storied to the Cardinals.
disagree completely. nobody deserves that much money.
Angels made a reported 50 mill a year on advertising and Japanese TV rights because of Ohtani. Imagine what the Dodgers are charging with their larger fan base.
The only reason I am a little skeptical of his worth is because Otani is very injury prone. Who know if he will play to his full potential as a pitcher experiencing two elbow surgeries in the last two years.
He is not injury prone, but what he does is taxing on his body. Any professional athletes putting such stress one their body will periodically inherit injuries. Even weekend warriors playing any sports will get injuries. What is amazing is that he is not injured on a daily basis. That is the reason why, Shohei, is an unbelievable human being.
I get supply and demand and all but 700 million is kind of obscene for a job that doesn't really matter
Nope..lol if anything should be a goal..
You are so out of touch its baffling 😂
Except that job makes ownership billions just from you signing the dotted line. Yeah, this isn’t YOUR job 😂
It's not even about that. 700 mill seems about right considering how much revenue Ohtani brings.
IMO every player on the Rangers deserve a pay raise for winning the WS 😂
You can't compare with hard earned money vs oil money.
Went from Buddy shouldn’t be the face of baseball because he can’t speak English to he deserves the 700 mil.
Teams outside of the US are that smart eith their money. It's about marketing. Put money for the that particular player like you said
2:45 you answer your own question
Ohtani is goat.
Because football is the biggest sport in the world … that’s why they can afford to play to their players that much money as they rake in billions and billions a year and whatever Messi and ronaldo are paid…. They generate 2x their fee in revenue for their teams.
Jeff passan mentioned shoehi only recieving 2m in salary.. i need an accurate diagnosis into this money rolling intoo the bank bebe
American business men got a lot of money to spend.
Dude from OKC is getting away with a crime reparations now
Messi and Ronaldo are stars of the most watched sport in the world. Baseball probably 5 countries that bring the mlb money. Stephen probably just found out who Messi was. In his mind, NFL was the biggest sport in the world. Something that's only big in this country . This mans ego is so big that he actually thought that he only had less than a million social media followers than messi. I dont know how he still has a job, the biggest hack.
Football is a world sport hence Messi and ronaldo getting more , baseball is an American sport
Because American sports have restrictions on payroll. If Jordan was in his prime right now and there was salary cap or max deals in the NBA he would get 250 million a year easily.
I mean if there were not
No. Maybe 60 million a year.
OK, OK, calm down. Michael Jordan is leagues above Ohtani. He'd be probably worth 250 million a game by today's standard.
@@clubeyxander5132 it’s just that a basketball player has way more impact on winning that a baseball player, soccer or football. No other sport can you have the best record in the league lose one guy and the next year have the worst record. That happened with Lebron in Cleveland
@@Dodgers-sw2uk You're absolutely right on that point. I agree 100%.
I don't like baseball. At all. Boring as hell.
My mom was a school teacher for 35 years. Nobody in the freaking universe deserves $700million for playing sports!!!! And I was a superstar bball player growing up. Vile is the only word to describe this!!!!! People starving and losing homes...working two jobs. I din't care how good he is
It's gross!!!!
SAS on point with this take!
he said he did not worth 500millio
That’s why Stephen does what he does . He actually knows what he is talking about . For every sport in particular.
Ohtani is not even the Japanese Babe Ruth. Ruth won world series. Ohtani had Mark trout and couldn't even win a playoff game! Overrated!
u said he *dont speak English*
Asians are the best in everything
I wonder if your opinion about Shohei Ohtanj really changed from 2 years ago when you made questionable comments on live tv. Is this the real Stephen A Smith? Or is this the fake?
SHOHEI OHTANI WILL PAY FOR HIMSELF!! EXACTLY SAS..THAT WHAT I KEEP COMMENTING. SAS IS READING THE COMMENTS!!
Simple, the world watches football "soccer". The world also watches and plays baseball. Ain't nobody care about American Football outside the USA and basketball is meh outside the USA.
If you love capitalism so much. The promotion-relegation for American sports league shouldn't be a problem, right?
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I don't think any athlete is worth that kind of money soon regular people won't even be able to afford to go to their games
Shohei Ohtani the baseball player isn't worth it. Shohei Ohtani the global superstar IS worth that, however.
They will regret it 😂
Box office
No one deserves $700 million. Unless you are saving lives. GDP of South Sudan is $430 million, 10 million people. This is what is wrong with society. Just saying.
He does save lives… some people can be depressed and watching Ohtani highlights gives them joy.
Okay, commie.
@@anthonyfam5469imagine their faces when we tell the South Sudanese people, instead of food, water, healthcare and housing, we are giving you all the chance to watch Shohei play baseball.
どーしたの、あんた。ww でもありがとう。
Goofy
And if he bats 0.215?
Batting average means jack shit, but he won't regress that badly until the last year or so of the contract, lol.
And he's making 2M a year, lol.
First one here
Come on!
Tell me how you feel after his 3rd tommy john
He'll still be hitting+the contract pays for itself.
Also, he's making just 2M for the first decade of the contract, lol.
Only in America that guy can learn English for that type of money
for @250 pitches a year?
NO player in baseball deserves 700 million for 10 years, that is just STUPID talk!
You sound jealous I’m sure you would take that contract if you could
You know how much money he's gonna make the dodgers? They'll get their money back and more for even after he retires
You definitely don't know him lol
@@ant6441 exactly these owners make a lot more ohtani is just getting his slice of the pie he probably deserves more to be honest
It turns out Dodgers may have Shohei for free. He only takes 2 million a year, and he will generate tens of millions every year ... Dodger will just collect those money and pay off Shohei when his contract is done!!!
if he was black, it wouldve had a question mark behind that comment
What are you talking about man ?
If he was black SaS would have never said those racist comments about him back a couple years ago
This Contract Will Not Age Well I Think He Will Be Injury Prone
He's making 2M a year, btw.
Also, they'll make the other 680M back. There's zero chance it doesn't age well.