The 2024 Major League Baseball season will open its curtain this Wednesday in South Korea where the Los Angeles Dodgers will face the San Diego Padres in a series that will mark the premiere of Shohei Ohtani with his new team, in which Incredibly, the Japanese star will be one of the lowest paid players.
Although the Japanese star signed a contract for no more and no less than $700 million dollars for the next 10 seasons with the Dodgers, for this season that is about to begin he will only be earning about $2,000,000 dollars, which makes him one of the lowest-paid players in the Los Angeles team.
According to the Spotrac portal, specialized in sports contracts for American leagues, The reigning MVP winner ranks 17th among highest-paid Dodgers players.a department led by Mookie Betts, with an annual salary of about $30 million and Freddie Freeman with another $27 million.
According to this list, Shohei Ohtani is only ahead of Gavin Lux, Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia, JP Feyereisen, Diego Cartaya, Michael Grove, Kyle Hurt, Bobby Miller and Miguel Vargas, in addition to some players who will be earning the minimum salary during this season, which would be about $740,000.
But why will the Japanese earn so little if according to his contract he should earn $70 million dollars a year? It must be remembered that Shohei Ohtani reached an agreement with the Dodgers to defer a good part of his salary and during the duration of his contract, which is the next 10 seasons of the Major Leagues, the player will receive only $ 20 million Dollars.
In this way, the player will stop earning $68 million dollars per season for the duration of the contract signed last December. That means that the Japanese will receive the rest of the money from the agreement, approximately $680 million dollars (without any interest) between 2034 and 2043.
Ticket prices to see Shohei Ohtani skyrocket
Fans who want to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first game at home against the St. Louis Cardinals will have to pay a high price according to the resale portal StubHub where tickets can be obtained at a price of $550 dollars. Remember that all tickets are sold.
With these amounts there would be a surcharge of up to 1,000% taking into account that tickets for Dodgers Stadium range from $40 dollars and $120 the most expensive. This is due to the high expectations that have been generated by the arrival of Shohei Ohtani.
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