Shohei Ohtani signs with the Dodgers (10 years, $700 million)

[TheLordofOuts]

By the way FUCK the Dodgers

[Swordsman78]

19 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

This is why I was generally not in favor of re-signing him. Of course I was thinking the contract would be in the $400 mill range.

Please stop thinking.

[robblin17]

3 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Nice to see who the absolute children on the board are.  Lol at being big mad at someone who signed by far the most lucrative contract in baseball history.  Grow up, babies.

Get off your high horse, clown. 

[Angelsfan1984]

I expect moves to start flying this weekend.

[DMVol]

23 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Ok bye

^^^ Time to move on…

[Lazorko Saves]

I'm not even upset now.  I am glad my team is not paying $70m for one player until age 39.

If somehow he would have signed for something like $42m a year or less, I might have been upset that we missed that.

But not upset at all here whatsoever.

[oldguy]

For 700 million, we could have had Pujols, CJ Wilson, Hamilton, and 1/2 of Rendon!

[full circle]

5 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

 

 

Nice to see who the absolute children on the board are.  Lol at being big mad at someone who signed by far the most lucrative contract in baseball history.  Grow up, babies.

Lol.  Settle down Chad.  

[AngelsLakersFan]

This is literally the classic AW meme, "$500 million, 500 years"

[Redondo]

1 minute ago, oldguy said:

For 700 million, we could have had Pujols, CJ Wilson, Hamilton, and 1/2 of Rendon!

We've already got half of Rendon 

[Make Angels Great Again]

5 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Nice to see who the absolute children on the board are.  Lol at being big mad at someone who signed by far the most lucrative contract in baseball history.  Grow up, babies.

 

How dare people have an emotional attachment him on the Angels.

Get off your high horse dude.

[Halo in Chicago]

5 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

 

 

Nice to see who the absolute children on the board are.  Lol at being big mad at someone who signed by far the most lucrative contract in baseball history.  Grow up, babies.

Totally agree. He wants to win. That wasn’t happening here. Oh and he doesn’t have to move and he gets $700M? Yeah, real hard decision…

[jsnpritchett]

2 minutes ago, robblin17 said:

Get off your high horse, clown. 

 

1 minute ago, full circle said:

Lol.  Settle down Chad.  

Honestly, though, how can anyone actually be mad at Ohtani for signing this deal? 

[Swordsman78]

6 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

If that's true Im going to lose my shit.

Absolutely no way should a team be able to give a dude a $700 mil contract and defer their luxury tax hit til fucking 2040 or whatever. Teams will be doing this with every deal after this.

You lost your shit a long time ago.

[Chuck]

[southpaw]

I will miss Shohei…..LOVED the player but I am happy for him and also happy that while I will hate the Dodgers, I will love watching Shohei….

[Inside Pitch]

I just want to see how the deal is going to get structured.  We may be moving into the age of deferred mega-contracts.

 

[TheLordofOuts]

Whoever Ohtani's agent is, well done.  

[oldguy]

1 minute ago, Redondo said:

We've already got half of Rendon 

Ha!  I knew someone would say that!

[Lazorko Saves]

7 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

I suspect this will be an issue in future labor contracts, if the Dodgers give him a 10 year, 700 million contract that ends up being like a 25mil AAV deal because he's being mainly paid in like the year 2080.

Wait wait wait.  Are ya'll telling me that MLB hasn't closed the Ilya Kovalchuk loophole?  That somehow Ohtani's cap hit will be something like $25m?  There's no way.  They have to have learned from the NHL and the Kovalchuk contract and put that into the luxury tax calculations.

Luxury tax hit has to be $70m a year, regardless of deferrals.  Right?

Edited December 9, 2023 by Lazorko Saves

[Mark68]

I'm glad he got paid. He deserves to. Does he deserve nearly 3/4 of a billion dollars? Does anyone, really?

 

 

I'm glad the Angels aren't paying him that much. 

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

How dare people have an emotional attachment him on the Angels.

Get off your high horse dude.

There's having an emotional attachment and there's being completely irrational and overreacting.  Again, why would anyone actually be mad at Ohtani for this?  Emotional attachment or not, what rational human being would expect him to turn down a deal like that and "stay loyal" (or whatever you want to call it) to the Angels?  Be mad at Arte for not giving him the deal.  That would still be wildly irrational, but maybe somewhat more understandable.

[full circle]

1 minute ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

 

How dare people have an emotional attachment him on the Angels.

Get off your high horse dude.

For real.  I’m not even upset, it’s all in good fun.  Some on here just take this way too seriously.  

[Make Angels Great Again]

@cals I need to know, since you're our resident expert.

How will the Cholos in the stands do with the Japanese fans?

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Yes, but it is $700M and 10 years, so not matter how they wiggle around, it is $70M a year.

That was my thought but MMC is saying they changed that in the last CBA... Who knows. Hard to see the Dodgers being OK with an annual $70 mil hit to the tax.