Shohei Ohtani's Contract: Pending Signature & Financial Impact

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Me and you were just discussing,

00:05 everyone in baseball is kind of waiting right now.

00:08 I don't think anybody's gonna sign

00:09 until they know what's gonna happen with Otani,

00:11 because there's obviously teams involved with Otani

00:14 that can then go and spend those dollars elsewhere

00:18 when they don't get him.

00:19 But with the big winter meetings being next week,

00:22 which is where last year we saw Turner and Judge

00:24 and really all the big guys go and sign,

00:27 it feels like Gabe, we're getting a little bit closer

00:30 with Otani and there's a few teams that are starting

00:33 to maybe peek out ahead of others

00:35 in terms of where he might go.

00:37 - You're bang on Carver, as far as the timing of this.

00:39 You know, you see it other sports,

00:41 NHL hockey, July 1st, the floodgates open, right?

00:44 NBA, they're already cutting deals before the deadline

00:47 and the moment that they're allowed to talk,

00:52 you have deals announced.

00:53 Baseball is a little bit different, right?

00:55 There's the off season, it takes weeks,

00:57 takes a month or so, but as you mentioned,

01:00 you've got the winter meetings.

01:02 And also, if you're gonna give a player five, six,

01:04 $700 million, you wanna do it before Christmas, Carver.

01:08 You wanna sell season tickets, you wanna sell jerseys,

01:11 you wanna get momentum going into holiday season,

01:13 going into spring training,

01:14 people booking spring training trips.

01:17 Showy Otani is gonna have an instant financial impact

01:20 on whatever organization that he signs with.

01:24 It should be noted that every 17th day of the month,

01:28 people wear Otani's jerseys in the country of Japan.

01:32 Like, we're talking millions of jerseys sold, Carver.

01:34 You know what I'm saying?

01:35 Like, not just Tim Tebow, 55,000 jerseys sold.

01:38 No, no, like, you know, 2.2 million jerseys sold or whatnot.

01:42 So there's a lot to it from a business standpoint,

01:45 but you're right, it's getting real right now.

01:47 And we've all known the Los Angeles Dodgers

01:49 are sort of somewhat believed to be the front runners.

01:53 He already lives in Los Angeles.

01:54 He doesn't have to move.

01:56 He doesn't have to leave his house.

01:57 He can stay in the same house that he lives in right now.

02:00 He's been very vocal about his favorite player in the league

02:03 and the guy that he wants to play with the most

02:04 is Bookie Betts.

02:06 There's a lot to it here and the Dodgers need him,

02:09 but the Rangers have a tax-free environment, Carver.

02:12 They have a very good baseball team.

02:14 And imagine that, getting $700 million tax-free,

02:17 essentially.

02:18 There's no tax in Texas.

02:20 I don't think he cares.

02:21 I think he's rich anyways.

02:23 And the Toronto Blue Jays, just people,

02:25 a lot of people think, no, Toronto won't do this and that.

02:28 But I know a lot of people don't realize this.

02:30 The Toronto Blue Jays are the richest team in sports.

02:34 They're the richest, they are richer than Ballmer.

02:38 They are richer.

02:38 They are the richest organization in Major League Baseball.

02:42 By far.

02:43 I guess the only one individual man is Cohen.

02:48 Yeah, Cohen isn't Rogers.

02:49 The difference is the Blue Jays are owned by a company.

02:52 They're not owned by a man.

02:54 There's a board of directors, Carver.

02:56 Like, if you're running the Blue Jays,

02:58 you can't just sign Soto or Otani, like if you're the GM.

03:02 You have to go to the Rogers board of directors,

03:05 sit in front of 12 smart dudes in suits

03:08 that run cable companies.

03:10 And a great line, I was told,

03:12 I used to have an inside pipeline into that room

03:15 and Anthopolis wanted to sign David Price

03:18 and an extension, $200 million.

03:21 And everybody ripped the Rogers company board

03:24 for rejecting it.

03:25 It's probably a good idea, wasn't it?

03:27 That they weren't on the hook

03:28 for $217 million to David Price.

03:30 But their line to Anthopolis was,

03:33 "Why would we give $217 million

03:36 "to an over the hill pitcher

03:38 "when we can invest that in a fiber optic cable line?"

03:41 (laughing)

03:42 Right?

03:43 You've got to give them an answer back

03:44 why it works for them.

03:46 Well, sir, because we are going to make this much money

03:48 and we will reproject this much sales.

03:51 You have to come prepared for this.

03:53 Word is the board is in, Carver.

03:56 So we're talking about like one of the seventh

03:57 biggest telecommunications company in the world.

04:00 AT&T is bigger, Warner is a few, Verizon.

04:04 They're massive, these people.

04:05 Like billions and billions and billions

04:08 and trillions, et cetera.

04:10 I still don't think he's going to do it.

04:12 I think he's listening to the offers.

04:14 I believe he's going to end up with a Dodger still.

04:16 I think Juan Soto ends up with the Yankees.

04:20 And I think Cody Ballinger

04:22 is what the Blue Jays come home with.

04:23 (laughing)

04:24 - Yeah.

04:25 - It's much more prediction.

04:26 - I think a lot of times too,

04:29 these teams have a feel that maybe they know

04:32 he's going to go to the Dodgers,

04:34 but they want to keep their,

04:35 they want to kind of show their fans

04:37 that they were quote, "in it."

04:38 - And other players, you nailed it, Carver.

04:41 So right now, other rich guys,

04:43 other big time players in the league are like,

04:45 "Damn, Blue Jays have money for Otani.

04:47 "What about me?

04:47 "I wouldn't mind playing there."

04:48 - Yeah.

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