Most baseball fans now know that Shohei Ohtani (29, LA Angels) is a great player. However, opinions are divided as to whether he is a player worthy of a contract worth 500 million dollars (approximately 615 billion won).
Fanside, an American media, said on the 31st (Korean time), “Ohtani is a strong candidate to become the first player in baseball history to receive $500 million, and major league executives are also wondering how much he will ultimately receive.”
Last year, Ohtani failed to win the MVP award for the second year in a row, being pushed by Aaron Judge (31, New York Yankees), who broke the American League home run record in one season. However, his record was so great that he was ranked 2nd in MVP. As a hitter, he achieved a batting average of 0.273, 34 homers and 95 RBIs, an OPS of 0.875, and an earned run average of 2.33 in 27 games, 15-9, and 219 strikeouts in 166 innings as a pitcher.
Fanside said about this, “Ohtani is a player I have never seen in baseball. He is like a mix of Matt Olsen (29, Atlanta) and Max Scherzer (39, New York Mets), and this makes him a representative baseball player. made with,” he praised. 메이저사이트
Olsen is a big first baseman who debuted in Oakland in 2016 and hit 176 career home runs. He also won the first baseman Gold Glove twice because of his excellent defense. Last year, he showed excellent offense with 162 games, 34 homers, 103 RBIs and an OPS of 0.802, even though it was his first season after moving to Atlanta.
Scherzer is a player who is evaluated to have won the Cy Young Award three times and virtually reserved the Hall of Fame. Ahead of the 2022 season, even at the age of 37, he won a large contract for 3 years and 130 million dollars (about 159.9 billion won) and recorded an average ERA of 2.29 with 11 wins and 5 losses in 23 games.
If that still doesn’t make sense, you can compare his record directly to other league players. Of the American League hitters last year, three hitters hit more home runs than Ohtani, two pitchers struck out more, one starter threw faster, and no hitter reached first base faster than Ohtani. Codify, one of the baseball statistics media, compared and analyzed Ohtani and expressed that “he is completely crazy.”
Not only major league executives but also past superstars such as Manny Ramirez continued to praise the amazing performance created by one person.
“I think Ohtani is worth $500 million,” Ramirez said in a recent interview. We will pay $250 million each,” he said, reinforcing the $500 million theory.