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Aug 23, 2025; San Diego, California, USA; San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. (23) celebrates as he scores as Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith (16) looks on during the eighth inning at Petco Park. Mandatory Credit: Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Other Dodgers rivals haven\u2019t been as cute with Oi Ocha product placement.<\/p>\n
Tatis\u2019 Team Dominican Republic teammates, Juan Soto of the New York Mets and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Bluer Jays, have hidden the bottles as they took the dais.<\/p>\n
Both squads have had tension with the Dodgers in recent years.<\/p>\n
Shohei Ohtani is an Endorsement Machine<\/p>\n
Even if Tatis were somehow able to replace the face of baseball as Oi Ocha\u2019s global brand ambassador, the Japanese superstar would probably be OK.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s still got numerous other deals, such as Seiko, which recently released a special edition watch in his honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also deferred a massive amount of his $700 million contract, resulting in short-term underpayment that he\u2019s offsetting with endorsements.<\/p>\n So even if he misses out on an endorsement or two now, he\u2019s still got $680 million coming his way in roughly $68 million per year installments<\/a> beginning in 2034.<\/p>\n Why is Ohtani Taking Deferred Payments?<\/p>\n In short, he\u2019s trying to help the team be better.<\/p>\n After 2024, Ohtani said in an interview that the deferment plan had already paid off.<\/p>\n \u201cIt definitely was rewarding,\u201d Ohtani told\u00a0Bob Nightengale of USA Today<\/a>. \u201cYou know, Mark, Andrew, the owners, we all made a promise to each other that we would go out and create the best team to put out on the field. And we were able to win the World Series, so in that sense, we were able to keep our promise towards each other.\u201d<\/p>\n LA Baseball Report<\/p>\n Get the app for faster news<\/p>\n![\"App](\"https:\/\/dodgersnation.com\/path\/to\/app-icon.png\"){kind=icon}
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