People tend to forget that the MLB season has 162 games in it.
Ambitious_Taro_1960
What no salary caps does to a league
Kyungnam
People tend to forget that mlb makes billions more than the nhl.
Edit:overestimated.
harpswtf
Both of these are outrageously high for someone to play a sport
Not_Jrock
How many games does an MLB team play?
How many fans are at each game?
Scoob204
One puts on a show literally every game. The other one throws a ball.
satiricalned
Ontani could be argued as an all star pitcher and all star hitter for the price of one. That doesn’t make the contract any better but hopefully he can get out of the doldrums of the angels
gotchu_bro
Ohtani is the most unique player in the history of the sport, where the sport has no salary cap.
The Dodgers will make that back with jersey sales in a few months.
OrdinaryAddss
MLB players are the most overpaid athletes in the world
TheFederalRedditerve
Baseball sucks.
TampaBayfour20
I don’t get how the MLB has this much money, I know literally no one that watches baseball
Key_Employee6188
What they need is like 5million min wage for nfl and mlb
Puzzleheaded-Lead126
MLB has double the revenue of the NHL. So does the NBA.
At some point, it’ll be triple.
AnonPlzzzzzz
And yet I don’t watch a second of baseball
biff_jordan
$8k per hour. Holy
cody4king
I didn’t know baseball even generated enough revenue to pay that kind of money to a single player.
Ballsahoy72
Don’t understand these threads. Like this is a normal MLB contract. There are a bunch of players with similar NHL contracts but literally no one has anything like Otani’s
rlovelock
Ohtani also only pitched 23 games this season…
Semprovictus
and then you compare it to Ronaldo…, who is 4 times ohtani
Repulsive-Ad-4367
Let me grab a kleenex….
Knightbear49
[Passan](https://x.com/jeffpassan/status/1733617544471216149?s=46&t=sFQ1esZ2sOxJBCUP0CZX3g): Shohei Ohtani’s contract has significant deferrals that include most of his salary — an idea, a source said, that was Ohtani’s. In deferring the money, it reduces the cost of the competitive-balance-tax hit and will allow the Dodgers to build a better team around him.
I’m going to explain why Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers will not equal $700 million in terms of MLB accounting or the present-day value of the deal.
When money in a contract is deferred, the competitive-balance tax number — the luxury tax — is discounted. With a source saying a “majority” of Ohtani’s contract is deferred, the discount could be significant. Typically, a CBT number is the average annual value of a deal — in this case $70 million. But depending on the size and length of the deferrals, Ohtani’s CBT number is likelier to wind up in the $40-50 million-a-year range, an enormous benefit for the Dodgers.
The deferrals also affect the net present value of the deal. There’s a rule of thumb across all walks of life: Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow, inflation being what it is. When you defer money, you’re taking less. The Dodgers are operating in an environment in which the prime rate is 8.5%. And with money today being so pricey, it lowers the present-day value of the deal by a significant margin.
Regardless, in the end, Shohei Ohtani will be paid 700 million US dollars by the Dodgers. It’s an obscene amount of money. It’s just going to be seen as less by the league’s accounting — and will allow the Dodgers to add even more around Ohtani as they try to win a championship.
Loveandafortyfive
Any other job that’s ever paid $8,000/hr?
Loose-Industry9151
lol NHL. Playing poor little brother to all major sports leagues.
notPatrickClaybon
I’m poor
MyNamesNotCal
They both make more per hour tha I make in a week.
airpaulg
This whole image could have been a single sentence: The most paid MLB player makes 6X more than the most paid NHL player.
Occams_ElectricRazor
Ohtani will make more while sleeping each night than the average American does each year.
KeithGribblesheimer
This is why Shohei Ohtani doesn’t play hockey.
TexasYankee212
That what the NHL’s failure to market the game does to salaries. The NHL owners purposely do NOT market star players – they are afraid they will demand more money. The do not fire those in NHL marketing people that are living in the 1990s.
Iliketomeow85
Compare vs highest lacrosse player or top pickleball player
Jefflehem
That MFs hourly needs to go *waaaaaayyyy* up, seeing ad how he only works about an hour every 5 days for just 4 months a year.
BoognishRisen
Ticket and concession prices are already too high. Baseball stadiums 2X the size of arenas. They can afford it. Stop posting garbage like this and giving them the idea they’re underpaid. It’s just going to make the sport even more unaffordable for regular people. We’ve already priced out the poor and bottom half of the middle class from enjoying the sport we love.
Higher paid players means higher ticket and cost of entry prices, which mean less people enjoy the sport we love. Period.
xtzferocity
No one in the NHL is worth that much because the NHL sucks at marketing their product
ImpossibleFuel6629
Surprised it’s only 5x as much.
BleedingTeal
One thing I see that’s wrong here is [MacKinnon is making $16.5m this year](https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/active/2024/salary?stats-season=2024), not $12.6m. Cap hit and salary are not the same thing. Nevertheless, the NHL is a joke in terms of salary compared to the other major sports in North America. In part because the top players in hockey simply don’t give a fuck and refuse to get involved in contract talks. And the reality is things won’t get better until they give a fuck and get involved.
Yunghungchef
Also American dollars so like a 950 million Canadian dollars
baconegg2
And he doesn’t even get hit !!
dsmithcc
Tbh both are crazy when you consider the state of things in this country, but Othanis contract is just insane on ever metric.
haghzvf
Why does everyone in the hockey community give such a shit about how much athletes in other sports make? What difference does this realistically make to the game? I acknowledge that hockey players make much less but even still these guys are making more money than any of us will ever see and the hockey community online acts like they’re charity cases.
Smokiiz
Every second this guy makes my daily coffee. That’s a lot of daily coffees.
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That’s fucked
$432,000 per game vs. $154,000
People tend to forget that the MLB season has 162 games in it.
What no salary caps does to a league
People tend to forget that mlb makes billions more than the nhl.
Edit:overestimated.
Both of these are outrageously high for someone to play a sport
How many games does an MLB team play?
How many fans are at each game?
One puts on a show literally every game. The other one throws a ball.
Ontani could be argued as an all star pitcher and all star hitter for the price of one. That doesn’t make the contract any better but hopefully he can get out of the doldrums of the angels
Ohtani is the most unique player in the history of the sport, where the sport has no salary cap.
The Dodgers will make that back with jersey sales in a few months.
MLB players are the most overpaid athletes in the world
Baseball sucks.
I don’t get how the MLB has this much money, I know literally no one that watches baseball
What they need is like 5million min wage for nfl and mlb
MLB has double the revenue of the NHL. So does the NBA.
At some point, it’ll be triple.
And yet I don’t watch a second of baseball
$8k per hour. Holy
I didn’t know baseball even generated enough revenue to pay that kind of money to a single player.
Don’t understand these threads. Like this is a normal MLB contract. There are a bunch of players with similar NHL contracts but literally no one has anything like Otani’s
Ohtani also only pitched 23 games this season…
and then you compare it to Ronaldo…, who is 4 times ohtani
Let me grab a kleenex….
[Passan](https://x.com/jeffpassan/status/1733617544471216149?s=46&t=sFQ1esZ2sOxJBCUP0CZX3g): Shohei Ohtani’s contract has significant deferrals that include most of his salary — an idea, a source said, that was Ohtani’s. In deferring the money, it reduces the cost of the competitive-balance-tax hit and will allow the Dodgers to build a better team around him.
I’m going to explain why Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers will not equal $700 million in terms of MLB accounting or the present-day value of the deal.
When money in a contract is deferred, the competitive-balance tax number — the luxury tax — is discounted. With a source saying a “majority” of Ohtani’s contract is deferred, the discount could be significant. Typically, a CBT number is the average annual value of a deal — in this case $70 million. But depending on the size and length of the deferrals, Ohtani’s CBT number is likelier to wind up in the $40-50 million-a-year range, an enormous benefit for the Dodgers.
The deferrals also affect the net present value of the deal. There’s a rule of thumb across all walks of life: Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow, inflation being what it is. When you defer money, you’re taking less. The Dodgers are operating in an environment in which the prime rate is 8.5%. And with money today being so pricey, it lowers the present-day value of the deal by a significant margin.
Regardless, in the end, Shohei Ohtani will be paid 700 million US dollars by the Dodgers. It’s an obscene amount of money. It’s just going to be seen as less by the league’s accounting — and will allow the Dodgers to add even more around Ohtani as they try to win a championship.
Any other job that’s ever paid $8,000/hr?
lol NHL. Playing poor little brother to all major sports leagues.
I’m poor
They both make more per hour tha I make in a week.
This whole image could have been a single sentence: The most paid MLB player makes 6X more than the most paid NHL player.
Ohtani will make more while sleeping each night than the average American does each year.
This is why Shohei Ohtani doesn’t play hockey.
That what the NHL’s failure to market the game does to salaries. The NHL owners purposely do NOT market star players – they are afraid they will demand more money. The do not fire those in NHL marketing people that are living in the 1990s.
Compare vs highest lacrosse player or top pickleball player
That MFs hourly needs to go *waaaaaayyyy* up, seeing ad how he only works about an hour every 5 days for just 4 months a year.
Ticket and concession prices are already too high. Baseball stadiums 2X the size of arenas. They can afford it. Stop posting garbage like this and giving them the idea they’re underpaid. It’s just going to make the sport even more unaffordable for regular people. We’ve already priced out the poor and bottom half of the middle class from enjoying the sport we love.
Higher paid players means higher ticket and cost of entry prices, which mean less people enjoy the sport we love. Period.
No one in the NHL is worth that much because the NHL sucks at marketing their product
Surprised it’s only 5x as much.
One thing I see that’s wrong here is [MacKinnon is making $16.5m this year](https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/active/2024/salary?stats-season=2024), not $12.6m. Cap hit and salary are not the same thing. Nevertheless, the NHL is a joke in terms of salary compared to the other major sports in North America. In part because the top players in hockey simply don’t give a fuck and refuse to get involved in contract talks. And the reality is things won’t get better until they give a fuck and get involved.
Also American dollars so like a 950 million Canadian dollars
And he doesn’t even get hit !!
Tbh both are crazy when you consider the state of things in this country, but Othanis contract is just insane on ever metric.
Why does everyone in the hockey community give such a shit about how much athletes in other sports make? What difference does this realistically make to the game? I acknowledge that hockey players make much less but even still these guys are making more money than any of us will ever see and the hockey community online acts like they’re charity cases.
Every second this guy makes my daily coffee. That’s a lot of daily coffees.