Shohei Ohtani Record-Breaking Deal: By The Numbers
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00:00 Sports press Rick Harrow into the $1.3 trillion business of sports with your Daily Numbers
00:04 game and boy, it is a big number.
00:07 The Otani 10-year, $700 million deal.
00:11 Congratulations to CAA who negotiated the deal.
00:14 It is almost as big as the entire value of the Florida Marlins at a billion dollars.
00:20 It is 62% higher than the annual salary of Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
00:27 Also eclipses the number that Patrick Mahomes signed as an extension by $200 million.
00:33 And maybe more important than that, it revolutionizes the guarantee to the biggest number we've
00:39 ever seen.
00:40 Dodgers probably can afford it through their cable television deals and their outreach
00:44 to Japan and a whole host of other things that they're now going to start instituting.
00:50 But certainly it increases the gulf between the haves and the have-nots.
00:55 But in LA, significant excitement.
00:58 See how it all shakes out.