About a year ago, Shohei Ohtani signed the biggest baseball contract in the history of whatever. It was a gigantic, 10-year contract with a total value of $700 million, demolishing the previous record held by Aaron Judge of $360 million.
Ohtani is of course a unicorn, an MVP hitter who also just happens to be a top-tier starting pitcher. He is the face of baseball, arguably the biggest superstar in the history of the game given his international appeal. So it was not quite a shock that his free agent contract was a unicorn, too. In the contract, Ohtani makes $2 million a year for the next decade—the same amount that Adam Frazier and Garrett Hampson made in 2024, mind you—before making a whopping $68 million a year for the decade following that.