It\u2019s not usual to have a World Series full of baseball superstars, but I think most fans would agree that this year\u2019s competition has one who outshines the competition: Shohei Ohtani. Any doubters have been silenced by the LA Dodgers\u2019 final National League Championship Series game last weekend, when he put on what was likely the greatest single-game performance in the history of Major League Baseball, pitching six shutout innings and hitting three mammoth home runs.<\/p>\n
For those who aren\u2019t wowed by baseball stats, Ohtani\u2019s star quality is also evident in his economic impact. His contract with the Dodgers pays him $700 million over 10 years. That\u2019s a big number. Yet the team made back that entire outlay in less than two seasons<\/a> via increased ticket and merchandise sales and marketing deals in Japan and around the world. In other words, even at $700 million, Ohtani is almost certainly underpaid compared to the revenue he generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not usual to have a World Series full of baseball superstars, but I think most fans would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[254,64,63,4034,21166,8782,9281,941,486,100646,591,22383,8247,85,26847],"class_list":["post-240150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-chemistry","tag-harvard-university","tag-immigration","tag-japan","tag-massachusetts","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-mlb","tag-nobel-prize","tag-software","tag-sports","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}