Dodgers’ reported reaction to Shohei Ohtani’s request to defer $680 million: ‘Holy f***’

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1. Friedman and Balelo, who still had other teams interested, agreed to talk again the next morning in more detail. After he hung up, Friedman dialed Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten.

   “Holy f—,” Friedman said.

   “Is that a ‘Holy f—’ good or a ‘Holy f—’ bad?” Kasten asked.

   “Good. Very good.”

2. Lol, most of it hearts were half broken the day before this, haha. I was so sad that the whole plane thing went down. What a twist it was to find out it wasn’t shohei and then have shohei sign the next day. Honestly, the plane thing was probably the reason he signed the very best day. He doesn’t want to do that to people. He just wants to play baseball and win.

3. I think he could have gotten more (in terms of present day value) if he really wanted. But it’s pretty clear money is more a byproduct than the goal for him.

4. Ohtani had to knew Yamamoto plans ahead of time hence the deferrals right?

5. ‘ Holy f*** ‘ – every dodger fan

6. I always hate when articles bring up the “tax savings” he’ll get by not being in California while also ignoring the fact that any income above $264K is taxed at 45% in Japan.

   https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/setting_up/section3/page7.html

7. Can’t believe he was out there trying to ruin baseball smh my head