Outside the Box Plan: Sign Ippei: 10 years/ $10 million

[Capital_Dave]

The two are obviously very tight. 

I assume Ippei is an employee of the organization, not an employee of Ohtani personally.  So my plan is: lock Ippei up with a 10 year/ $10 million personal services contract.  Ippei is set for life and Ohtani has a major incentive to re-sign with us.

And if Ohtani still goes elsewhere, no biggie, doesn't count against the salary cap... we recruit heavily in NPB and become a pipeline for Japanese talent.  There's already a ton of Angels gear being worn by Japanese baseball fans.  Let's put it to use!

 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Capital_Dave

[BTH]

$10M a year or $1M per year?

Either way, I bet Ohtani would take care of him financially. As would any other team that shells out $500M+ for Ohtani.

[Vladdy Issues]

I like it

[Angels 1961]

20 days left before Ohtani is gone

[Angelsjunky]

[Tank]

57 minutes ago, Angels 1961 said:

20 days left before Ohtani is gone

 

[Angel Oracle]

I say damn the torpedoes!

Re-sign Ohtani AND sign Yamamoto!

Ohtani, Detmers, Yamamoto, Sandoval, Canning, and Anderson 

With depth in the minors 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Angel Oracle

[Wisconsin27]

As long as Arte is owner, I honestly don't want to resign Ohtani.  The storyline for the top-heavy lineups has been authored by the Angels.  It doesn't work.  He's 29.  Have we not seen this scenario play itself out enough already?

 

[Second Base]

15 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

I say damn the torpedoes!

Re-sign Ohtani AND sign Yamamoto!

Ohtani, Detmers, Yamamoto, Sandoval, Canning, and Anderson 

With depth in the minors 

Don't mention torpedoes and Japanese around Arte, he'll think they're coming to sink his yacht. 

[Angels 1961]

It's not what halo fans or Arte wants now. What does Ohtani want to do and I feel he wants to test FA.

[AngelsLakersFan]

I'm not sure if Ippei is going to age well. 0 WAR this year and on the wrong side of 30 already.

[VladdyforHOF]

On 7/10/2023 at 11:43 PM, Wisconsin27 said:

As long as Arte is owner, I honestly don't want to resign Ohtani.  The storyline for the top-heavy lineups has been authored by the Angels.  It doesn't work.  He's 29.  Have we not seen this scenario play itself out enough already?

 

That's crazy. Fans of every team in baseball want Ohtani on their team. Why would you not want the best player in the game on your team? I hope he would be open to signing a shorter term contract here like 4yrs/280m or something. Then if he still hasn't fulfilled what he's wanted to as far as winning then he can go somewhere else in 4 years. Also consider how much longer he is going to be able to be a TWP at a high level. I could easily see him dropping pitching in his mid 30's.

I guess I have a hot take - I don't think Ohtani actually ends up signing a regular 10yr/5-600m contract. I'm willing to bet there will be teams that will offer him something way shorter term like 4-5yrs/300-350m to make huge AAV in the next 3-4 years and have a chance to get another big one after that. Or the contract could be longer term but he only unlocks a bunch of the millions each year if he still pitches and hits, certain amount of innings, etc. I'm guessing the contract will be pretty unique compared to what we've ever seen.

[Wisconsin27]

Vladdy, if his agent doesn't secure 450+ million guaranteed, he should be fired.  

 

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Can he help us land Sadahru Oh?