{"id":566869,"date":"2026-03-27T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:26:07","slug":"shohei-ohtani-leads-mlb-jersey-sales-heading-into-opening-day-for-3rd-straight-season-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566869\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani leads MLB jersey sales heading into opening day for 3rd straight season :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani led Major League Baseball&#8217;s jersey sales going into opening day for the third straight season and was joined by two Los Angeles Dodgers teammates in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was second, followed by New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh and Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, Major League Baseball said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was the last player other than Ohtani to top the list, leading at the 2023 All-Star break. Ohtani took over the lead by the end of the season and has finished first in three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona third baseman Nolan Arenado, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, Baltimore first baseman Pete Alonso, Boston outfielder Roman Anthony and Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong followed as Raleigh and Anthony ranked among the top 10 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>MLB\u2019s list tracked sales on Fanatics\u2019 sites, including MLBShop.com, since the end of last year&#8217;s World Series, when the Dodgers won their second straight title.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani led Major League Baseball&#8217;s jersey sales going into opening day for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[200514,229080,3979,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-566869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ap-business","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566869","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=566869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}