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Ohtani to the Blue Jays? (Update: Signs w/Dodgers for $700 million over 10 yrs)

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2 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

I guess Andrew Friedman here has found a Dodgers-specific way to bring the hedge fund type stuff in a new way to the game.

The Raysian atomization of run prevention gets kind of a bookend.

For Shohei, I guess if you are using your energy to pitch and hit, maybe you don't care about checking your E-Trade year to year in the Roger Dorn style.

For him too, it is kind of a bookend to pair with the choice to get to play with Mike Trout for less money at a younger age.

We've talked about the odd feeling for Maryland taxpayers, this is something for California taxpayers to digest.

It's estimated he makes almost 50M in endorsements.

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Hope he kills it for the Dodgers. Glad Toronto lost again. Losers. 

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Pointing out the obvious isn’t clever. It’s just obvious. (this actually may not be true either..may be subject to their ridiculous taxes anyway)

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It's a shame that it took Kevin Gausman leaving the Orioles' organization to find his spine. He was like a timid little butterfly when he pitched for this team. Now he's a keyboard warrior!

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Why would he sign a deal like that? It destroys a large majority of the value. The opportunity loss over 10 YEARS when he isn't getting paid will come to to easily 300m if not more. This is like one of those fake NFL deals with all the money on the back end the player will never see, so overall number is worthless. This overall number is similarly worthless since he has to wait a freaking decade to start collecting lol. I'd love to hear the rationale from the players perspective. Or any perspective explaining how this makes sense. I'm sure agent loves it because he is getting paid on 700m vs the 400m it is really worth. Probably like now. 

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1 minute ago, TradeAngelos said:

Why would he sign a deal like that? It destroys a large majority of the value. The opportunity loss over 10 YEARS when he isn't getting paid will come to to easily 300m if not more. This is like one of those fake NFL deals with all the money on the back end the player will never see, so overall number is worthless. This overall number is similarly worthless since he has to wait a freaking decade to start collecting lol. I'd love to hear the rationale from the players perspective. Or any perspective explaining how this makes sense. I'm sure agent loves it because he is getting paid on 700m vs the 400m it is really worth. Probably like now. 

Why did he come to MLB under the posting system instead of waiting and being able to sign a FA deal?

He doesn't care much about the money.  He said to be bringing in 50M/year in endorsements.

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I’m no economist but it’s not really a 700M dollar deal.  It’s more like a 500M deal which is what most were predicting although some said as high as 600M.   Maybe Toronto offered him 10/500M (with no deferred money) or more and this was his way and agents way to get him to his first choice destination.

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Just now, RZNJ said:

I’m no economist but it’s not really a 700M dollar deal.  It’s more like a 500M deal which is what most were predicting although some said as high as 600M.   Maybe Toronto offered him 10/500M or more and this was his way and agents way to get him to his first choice destination.

I figured they were going to front load it and pay him 650M in year one.

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