There is an old saying in business that you need to have money to make money. Thanks to the highly unusual structure of their contract with Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers are about to have — and potentially make — a whole lot more than they already do.
In the week since Ohtani inked his heavily-deferred 10-year, $700 million pact with the Dodgers, the unprecedented deal has been viewed around Major League Baseball in a number of ways.
As a record-breaking contract with the biggest guarantee in sports history. As the selfless act of a superstar player hellbent on winning.