Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million contract with the Dodgers isn’t just the biggest in sports history.
It’s bigger than the Gross National Income of 12 countries in 2020, according to World Population Review. Even Ohtani’s annual average of $70 million over 10 years is bigger than the GNI of Montserrat.
Yes, history was made Saturday when Ohtani’s free-agency pursuit went from shrouded in mystery to exploding into worldwide news when he picked the Dodgers over the Angels and Blue Jays.
Here are four lens through which you can try to digest Ohtani’s contract, which is rich enough allow him to buy the private island in the Bahamas used in filming “Pirates of the Caribbean” and have $550 million left over to bank:
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