Shohei Ohtani has signed an advertising contract with food manufacturer Nisshin Seifun Welna Inc. He also has sponsorship deals with Porsche and Japan Airlines, and his side income is said to exceed 10 billion yen (approximately $64,863,462).

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  1. Wonder what he does with all of that money. Seems like he wants to have it just to say he has it.

  2. Was just in Japan, he’s also selling tea and mattresses among other things. Literally set his family good for like three generations. Baseball Jesus is literally everywhere.

  3. If he keeps getting sponsorship deals, he’s gonna buy a baseball team after he retires, or he’s gonna be a billionaire

  4. Who gets more ad time dedicated to them during commercial breaks? Patrick Mahomes in the US, or Shohei Ohtani in Japan?

  5. I know 20 years worth of inflation, but it’s absolutely sending me that in the Yakuza series the Tojo clan tore themselves up over the same amount of money Shohei makes on the side as endorsements.

  6. is a player allowed to also be an owner of the team? I’m assuming theres gotta be some rules about that. Cause whats stopping Ohtani Age 41 once his Dodgers contract is over from buying the Angles and putting himself on the roster

  7. Using 6 more significant figures on the approximation versus the original number makes my eye twitch.

  8. What if Ohtani’s plan is to buy the Angels, then have the Dodgers help fund his plan for the 10-years after he retires?

  9. Just a thought, what are the rules about teams helping players to get sponsors? It seems like a loophole to be abused if teams acted like agents and got sponsorships for players. Then they could pay them less directly and compensate them at a higher rate than other teams. Therefore skirting the luxury tax.

    I know that’s not a new idea. But I wonder what the rules are. Because it seems pretty unfair you have a guy making 66m+ a year with 680m+ back loaded. If you just say that his sponsorship money stays the same, that is 1.3b+ over 10 years. Seems pretty broken.

  10. From head to toe, from food product to commercial airlines .

    I’m sure one day Lockheed Martin will sponsoring Shohei in the near future.

  11. This is why I can totslly believe he totally ignored all the fraud. He has so much money he can walk up to any object, be it a car, boat, house, or box of Warhammer minis, and buy it. 

    And all he seems to want to do is play baseball. This article is probably news to him, too.

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