{"id":555028,"date":"2026-03-23T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:35:11","slug":"shohei-ohtani-wbc-jersey-goes-for-record-1-5m-at-auction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555028\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani WBC jersey goes for record $1.5M at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan HajduckyMar 23, 2026, 11:28 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities.<\/p>\n

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The jersey two-way star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> wore during Japan’s 13-0 win over Chinese Taipei in the World Baseball Classic on March 6 sold for $1,500,010 via MLB Auctions on Sunday night — the most ever paid for an Ohtani jersey at auction.<\/p>\n

In that game, played at the Tokyo Dome, Ohtani hit a grand slam and had five RBIs.<\/p>\n

Overall in the WBC, he hit .462 with a 1.842 OPS. Japan, the 2023 champion, fell to eventual winner Venezuela in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

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Over the seven-day auction, Ohtani’s No. 16 jersey racked up an astounding 298 bids. It was a sizable increase from the 2023 MLB Auctions sale when Ohtani’s jersey from a pool play WBC game against Australia sold for $126,100.<\/p>\n

The recent auction appetite for Ohtani is ravenous. In the past three months, two cards featuring game-worn Ohtani jersey patches and on-card signatures have eclipsed $2 million at auction: The 2025 Topps Chrome MVP Award Gold MLB Logoman Ohtani card, which sold for $3 million just before Christmas, and the 2025 Topps Chrome dual MVP gold Logoman featuring Ohtani and Aaron Judge<\/a>, which sold for $2.16 million on March 20.<\/p>\n

Ohtani’s 50th home run ball in 2024 — which established the first 50-50 season in MLB history — sold for $4.39 million to Taiwanese investment firm UC Capital in October 2024, a record paid for a baseball. That money has remained in escrow as litigation over the ball’s ownership continues, with a jury trial in the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida court currently slated for July 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan HajduckyMar 23, 2026, 11:28 AM CloseDan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-555028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}