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Shohei Ohtani is joining the Los Angeles Dodgers in free agency.
What did it cost? Everything $700 million.
It needs to be said again: 70% of a billion dollars, for one player, over the course of a decade. To say the deal shatters the MLB record for largest contract and largest average annual value is to understate the effect this deal could have.