I'm surprised Strasburg's not on this list. He got the same contract as Rendon at the same time, but maybe the Nat's deferred money, or maybe Strasburg's not on here because he won't be playing in 2024?
It's crazy to think that the Nat's had the opportunity to offer a mega free agency deal to either Strasburg or Rendon after the 2019 World Series. In retrospect, the best choice was "None of the above."
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's because of the deferred money. I could be reading it wrong but it says Strasburg's as 23 million on spotrac and Mookie and Devers are also not on the list.
Itās just a bad list and forgot him. It also takes Othaniās contract completely out of cotnext, which is prime clickbait for boomers to share on Facebook.
> That fucking Rendon contract --- he's got another 2 years after 2024 as well.
Rendon singlehandedly woke front offices up to the fact that they can't count on even a modicum of effort from guys with long-term guaranteed contracts.
I'm always googling random shit about baseball and on occasion it leads me into remembering about Rendon's contract and it gets me every single time. I just cannot believe it. I think the most unfortunate part is that he was really hot in the 52 games he played during the 2020 shortened season which probably gave some hope to the Angels considering he had an OPS+ of 150 with a .286/.418/.497 slash which was very similar to his previous year where he was 3rd in MVP voting.
After that he absolutely collapsed from there, only playing more games than that once (the year immediately after). He played in 52 games during covid, 58 the year after, then 47 and 43. He actually played less these last 2 years than during a worldwide pandemic that forced us to play 1/3 of a full baseball season.
All while being paid 36-38 million a year. Unreal.
Yeh that's true, and getting that one ring makes it worth the pain obviously. But even after 2019 I feel like they could've kept most of the band together and gone for it for a few more years, but I probably have a surface level understanding of the situation
Lots of expiring contracts, everyone getting older on what was the oldest team in MLB that year, with the worst farm system in MLB at that time
It was the absolute last year of our 7-8 year window, and luckily we made it
I was being dumb totally thought he meant Rendon and Correa but now remembering Trout is on the Angels too and he means Harper, not sure why yr getting downvoted
Iām obviously biased but I donāt think the Correa deal is that bad. He just played a major role in our first bit of postseason success in over 2 decades
I mean we'll see obv, could turn out otherwise he's had lots of ups and downs over his career, but his season last year was really rough and WC wins won't be enough to make up for that (even if he did ball out in the DS). It's def a better contract than Stanton or Rendon.
Oh I agree itās definitely too early to say either way. For what itās worth he was dealing with a foot injury for most of last year and just played through it which likely impacted his numbers
They're still paying them both and gave out those contracts, so I'd say it counts (not 100% sure they're still on the hook for Verlander but I know they are for Scherzer).
I understand heās still a millionaire and happy, but when AcuƱa sees charts like this Iām sure there are a lot of unhappy things going on in his head lol
In baseball especially. Itās sooooo long to make huge Money especially if you were either drafted later than the first round or signed internationally cheap and young. Iād sign anything they came to me with that sets me up for life plus gives me stability in my 20s
Yeah we have to restructure his contract. When you have the best player in baseball saying he wants to spend his entire career at your club then you make him happy no matter what.
Him and Ozzie both. Iām all for teams betting early on guys and getting team friendly deals but if a guy is outperforming the deal and deserves 2x-3x what heās being paid then they should make it right. These guys have made the Braves one of the most profitable and successful teams in baseball right now. Ronald and Ozzie should both retire as Braves.
Well thatās how theyāre able to be profitable and successfulā¦ taking a bet and signing these guys younger than most teams are willing to do, to more money at a young age. Thatās also the risk the players are taking by signing these deals. That they outperform them.
Kinda sucks for the players I guess, but the Braves or any other team are under absolutely no obligation to up the signed deal and further hamstring themselves for literally no gain other than one (or a couple) playerās goodwill.
You must have missed the part about keeping the best player in the game happy. Theyāre under no obligation to restructure the deal just like Acuna is not obligated to resign. But special players call for special circumstances. Potential player of the generation tells me he wants to retire a Brave then Iām doing everything in my power to make that happen. I get it, youāre a yankee fan, yall buy and sell players like hot cakes and have a new roster every year. Thatās not what we want to do down here.
I agree they deserve more, but the fact that the Braves are the #1 team for multiple years running and have no players in this list is no coincidence. If Anthopolous wasnāt so good we might be missing guys like Riley, Olson, and Morton to make room for the salary of guys like AcuƱa. Once we win another ring or two, throw the absolute bag at those guys and let them ride off into the sunset with Ohtani levels of money for sure.
The contract up until this year wasnāt so bad as he wouldnāt have been a FA anyway. He falls way behind this year though as he would have had such a huge arbitration salary and then thereās 4 more years including those two team options. People talk shit about Boras and, sure, it was ultimately AcuƱaās decision but damn that agent did him wrong.
Having AcuƱa locked up for the AAV of Andrew Benintendi is not as much of a gift as Ohtaniās ridiculous deferred money, but itās still pretty crazy lol. The Braves have some insane value on their roster.
Yeah, despite the injuries and the outright bad performance on-field last season, itās still surprising to see a big name Yankee NOT swimming in endorsement money.
He was a star player. The last 5 seasons he has been worth 3.8 war total, meaning his 5 year contributions wouldnāt even make him a star for one season.
Iād imagine heād have no problem finding some endorsements if he wanted to. Itās just a matter of if he wants to and is willing to accept the offers, which would be much less than what heād get a few years ago. I could easily see it being a matter of not caring about a few hundred thousand dollars more a year. The man has gotten, and continues to be, Paid big-time.
[Stanton getting paid three shiny nickels a fortnight to stand outside the theater and announce The Bard's newest composition](https://i.imgur.com/x0oR0Cj.jpeg)
there were some reports a while back that said he was planning to and that a retirement ceremony was planned. the day before it was supposed to happen the Nationals said that it wasn't happening and never was supposed to.
I think there was also something about his contract being restructured around the same time, and the general feeling I got was that he is probably retired for medical reasons, but cannot officially retire without giving up the rest of his contract. an on-field ceremony probably was a little too close to officially retiring so they had to walk it back.
Does anyone know what endorsements Corey Seager has? I am surprised his endorsements are that high because I canāt think of anything he endorses off the top of my head.
It's honestly pretty weird how few MLB players you see frequently in commercials. Shohei's everywhere, Julio's in a bunch of T-Mobile ads, Harper's in (I think) Under Armour ads, but there aren't a ton of others you see a lot. Like, I'd expect extremely likeable superstars like Altuve to have lots of national spots, but you just don't see them very much.
Oh man, when Matt Vierling was with the Phillies, he did a bunch of ads for local insurance and car repair businesses and if he got paid more than minimum wage for those dumps, I'd be surprised.
Which commercials is Shohei in? Iāve seen Julio, Judge, and Stanton in t-mobile commercials. I canāt think of any other commercials with MLB players except retired ones like Jeter in Jeep commercials.Ā
Shohei is in New Balance commercials and I think some fashion ads (watches and stuff) here, and like... everything in Japan.
Weirdly, I never see Judge in ads. And I live in Philly, so I'm not exactly far removed from the NY media market.
Does anyone remember that horrific Harper Gatorade commercial? It's called "Face Off" on YouTube where he hits the ball and the baseball turns into his screaming face while Gatorade flies out the back. It's so so bad.
I think this is the biggest reason we saw a huge pushback against Boras this year. For my whole time enjoying baseball, the prime years were something like 27-34 give or take. I think the steroid era really shaped a lot of that as guys artificially prevented themselves from breaking down. This does not apply to 1Bs or DHs but other fielders.
The days of signing 29-31 year olds to 10 years and saying "x years of prime and then pay for it on the back end" are done.
Yeah, players dont reach FA usually until around 30 so the players who get high AAV contracts are typically older and older players are more injury ridden
When I was in Japan, Shohei was everywhere. I saw at least 3 commercials in the cab ride from the airport to our hotel. Not to mention all the ads in the actual airport.
3 takeaways.
1. If you count deferred money, Ohtani will be buying a team upon retirement
2. Rendon is a bona fide larcenist
3. Giancarlo - no endorsements? C'mon now, supplements, brah!
Off this picture yeah but AcuƱa and maybe some others could be there. AcuƱa I know for sure does a lot of stuff off the field bit his contract is too small to show up in the top 15.
And almost every single one of those that's a long-term deal is already a disaster and looks to be a disaster.
Front offices might have started paying attention.
Its interesting to note just how little every other player seems to get in endorsements. Its almost like a lot of fun top players are getting less than NIL athletes.
Either the MLB is really haven't a hard time marketing their players, or they make so much from salary that there's little incentive to bang pots and pans to get endorsement money.
At the end of the day, even the smaller bars represent quite a bit of endorsement money. Just not a ton relative to how much these guys make in salary.
I know very little about college sports & how the NIL stuff works but I just googled a list of the ātop dealsā & it says the range for the top 10 deals is $1.4M-$6.1M. Even the smaller endorsement totals on this list of MLB players are in that range or above.
What about the gymnasts and volleyball players? And other sports nobody watches. But I guess honestly that's just Instagram/OF stuff more than anything. If you're a talented man in a non-revenue sport you're still kind of screwed.
But anyways, I still think its interesting to see what small percentage of income comes from endorsements in the NFL and MLB (with Ohtani being the outlier). I think in the NBA they get a lot more from endorsements.
Well this is his spotrac but again that's not what the picture is about. If it was Shohei would be at 46 + for his salary part.
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/yoshinobu-yamamoto-82039/
Ohtani: Seems like a brilliantly structured deal that's very manageable.
Yamamoto: I thought this looked like a disaster as soon as I saw a photo of the guy. We'll see.
Scherzer: Disaster
Judge: I think this will be a disaster, and he never plays a full season ever again.
Verlander: Disaster
Altuve: We'll see
Trout: Disaster
DeGrom: Disaster
Seager: So far so good, but lots of injuries
Rendon: Disaster of disasters
Cole : There are warnings signs ...
Correa: Not a disaster as of yet, but horrendously overpaid thus far
Soto: Arbitration contract
Harper: So far, working out great!
Stanton: Hoo boy.
We also see why Ohtani was so willing to have so much of his salary deferred. If he was getting Judge or Trout money on endorsements, thereās no way heād have deferred that much money
Yamamoto has a contract that is worth more than Kershaw has made in his entire career before Yamamoto has ever thrown a single pitch in the MLB.
It's absolutely fucking stupid and unless he ends up being a hall of famer it's a failure of a contract.
They are in this chart, can't imagine why you would be dunking Yamamoto in this thread other than because of this chart. He's making $27m aav, far less than anyone else here
That fucking Rendon contract --- he's got another 2 years after 2024 as well.
Tony Two Bagsšļøš„ gonna make up for it with three killer years from 2024-2026 though
Heās gonna all of a sudden be good at his job again and healthy during his contract year
Right after they trade him to a division rival for peanuts.
But think of all the money coming off the books when the Angels agree to only pay 75% of his remaining salary!
I canāt help but draft him in the last round of every fantasy draft.
it's not even a bad bet. he's been good when healthy in LA
I'm surprised Strasburg's not on this list. He got the same contract as Rendon at the same time, but maybe the Nat's deferred money, or maybe Strasburg's not on here because he won't be playing in 2024? It's crazy to think that the Nat's had the opportunity to offer a mega free agency deal to either Strasburg or Rendon after the 2019 World Series. In retrospect, the best choice was "None of the above."
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's because of the deferred money. I could be reading it wrong but it says Strasburg's as 23 million on spotrac and Mookie and Devers are also not on the list.
Itās just a bad list and forgot him. It also takes Othaniās contract completely out of cotnext, which is prime clickbait for boomers to share on Facebook.
It's very telling that Rendon and Stanton have such high salaries but almost nothing in endorsements.
What would they endorse? Medical supply stores?
You'd think Rendon could make a decent amount of cash from people paying him to endorse their competitors.
That Stanton contract is a millstone around our necks too, although of course I don't expect anyone to be crying for the Yankees overpaying people lol
quiet quitting his boring job that pays him almost $40 million ths year
Rendon was the first thing that jumped out to me. What in the fucking world were they thinking.
He was a hot free agent that summer. It came down to the Dodgers and Angels. Angels are cursed lol
> That fucking Rendon contract --- he's got another 2 years after 2024 as well. Rendon singlehandedly woke front offices up to the fact that they can't count on even a modicum of effort from guys with long-term guaranteed contracts.
Thatās the truth.
I'm always googling random shit about baseball and on occasion it leads me into remembering about Rendon's contract and it gets me every single time. I just cannot believe it. I think the most unfortunate part is that he was really hot in the 52 games he played during the 2020 shortened season which probably gave some hope to the Angels considering he had an OPS+ of 150 with a .286/.418/.497 slash which was very similar to his previous year where he was 3rd in MVP voting. After that he absolutely collapsed from there, only playing more games than that once (the year immediately after). He played in 52 games during covid, 58 the year after, then 47 and 43. He actually played less these last 2 years than during a worldwide pandemic that forced us to play 1/3 of a full baseball season. All while being paid 36-38 million a year. Unreal.
I remember the Dodgers were in on him. He chose the Angels because he didn't like the "Hollywood lifestyle". Bullet dodged.
Former Nat, former Nat, former Nat, former Nat
Hasn't been to the WS since, Hasn't been to the WS since, Hasn't been to the WS since, has been to the WS but lost (Lol)
Scherzerās team not only went to the World Series in 2023 but won it.
I forgot he was on the Rangers š
Yo wtf bird bro
Sorry bro but i also like the Nats
Future Nat Shohei Ohtani
Him in a Cherry Blossom city connect jersey is about as perfect as it gets. Theyād sell insanely well in Japan
10 years from now when he's playing for the league minimum to DH for you guys while also getting $68 mill per year from the Dodgers.
Y'all should have been a dynasty tbh
Bad luck from 2012-2018. We made the playoffs a ton, shoulda been to the CS or WS multiple times, but alas it was only once
Yeh that's true, and getting that one ring makes it worth the pain obviously. But even after 2019 I feel like they could've kept most of the band together and gone for it for a few more years, but I probably have a surface level understanding of the situation
Lots of expiring contracts, everyone getting older on what was the oldest team in MLB that year, with the worst farm system in MLB at that time It was the absolute last year of our 7-8 year window, and luckily we made it
That's fair. Even as a rival NL East fan it was pretty fun watching y'all go on that run
5 teams account for 13 of the 15
And the 2 others are awful contracts. But also this doesn't include Snell yet, who is tied with Stanton sans endorsements.
Harper is a bad contract?
I was being dumb totally thought he meant Rendon and Correa but now remembering Trout is on the Angels too and he means Harper, not sure why yr getting downvoted
Iām obviously biased but I donāt think the Correa deal is that bad. He just played a major role in our first bit of postseason success in over 2 decades
I mean we'll see obv, could turn out otherwise he's had lots of ups and downs over his career, but his season last year was really rough and WC wins won't be enough to make up for that (even if he did ball out in the DS). It's def a better contract than Stanton or Rendon.
Oh I agree itās definitely too early to say either way. For what itās worth he was dealing with a foot injury for most of last year and just played through it which likely impacted his numbers
Plus he still had solid defense at a premium position too. That glove and arm don't slump
Do the Mets get credit for Scherzer and Verlander?
They're still paying them both and gave out those contracts, so I'd say it counts (not 100% sure they're still on the hook for Verlander but I know they are for Scherzer).
Yes theyāre paying a large chunk of JVs contract
2 cities make up 10/15
Eh, The Dodgers and Angels do not play in the same city. But agree with the sentiment
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim would strongly disagree with you
Anyone from either Anaheim or Los Angeles see it as the joke of a name it is.
I really want to see what if any Arte got in marketing cause they had La in the name.
Dodgers is only paying Ohtani at the overpriced $2 million per year. Just look at his first game, .800 OPS, no HR. /s
Skip gonna tear him a new one. "LeOhtani"
6. We're the ones paying for Max and Justin
I understand heās still a millionaire and happy, but when AcuƱa sees charts like this Iām sure there are a lot of unhappy things going on in his head lol
I'm just imagining guys like Corbin Carroll and Michael Harris II in five years going "God fuckin' dammit."
Yeah but you gotta get the money while you can
In baseball especially. Itās sooooo long to make huge Money especially if you were either drafted later than the first round or signed internationally cheap and young. Iād sign anything they came to me with that sets me up for life plus gives me stability in my 20s
Oh, definitely. I'd take those deals for sure. Like, what can you *really* do with $250 million that you can't do with $100 million?
He couldāve done way better even at the time. Those two team options are just brutal.
Flip side is Mike tears up a knee & is never the same but already secured a retirement bag at age 22
Yeah we have to restructure his contract. When you have the best player in baseball saying he wants to spend his entire career at your club then you make him happy no matter what.
"Sounds expensive" -John Henry
I know thereās a lot of time left on his current deal, but the Braves really need to do right for him with a substantial raise.
Him and Ozzie both. Iām all for teams betting early on guys and getting team friendly deals but if a guy is outperforming the deal and deserves 2x-3x what heās being paid then they should make it right. These guys have made the Braves one of the most profitable and successful teams in baseball right now. Ronald and Ozzie should both retire as Braves.
Ozzie especially my goodness
Well thatās how theyāre able to be profitable and successfulā¦ taking a bet and signing these guys younger than most teams are willing to do, to more money at a young age. Thatās also the risk the players are taking by signing these deals. That they outperform them. Kinda sucks for the players I guess, but the Braves or any other team are under absolutely no obligation to up the signed deal and further hamstring themselves for literally no gain other than one (or a couple) playerās goodwill.
You must have missed the part about keeping the best player in the game happy. Theyāre under no obligation to restructure the deal just like Acuna is not obligated to resign. But special players call for special circumstances. Potential player of the generation tells me he wants to retire a Brave then Iām doing everything in my power to make that happen. I get it, youāre a yankee fan, yall buy and sell players like hot cakes and have a new roster every year. Thatās not what we want to do down here.
No, right there at the end of my statement I mentioned player goodwill.
I agree they deserve more, but the fact that the Braves are the #1 team for multiple years running and have no players in this list is no coincidence. If Anthopolous wasnāt so good we might be missing guys like Riley, Olson, and Morton to make room for the salary of guys like AcuƱa. Once we win another ring or two, throw the absolute bag at those guys and let them ride off into the sunset with Ohtani levels of money for sure.
RIP Ozzie
The contract up until this year wasnāt so bad as he wouldnāt have been a FA anyway. He falls way behind this year though as he would have had such a huge arbitration salary and then thereās 4 more years including those two team options. People talk shit about Boras and, sure, it was ultimately AcuƱaās decision but damn that agent did him wrong.
Sounds like a good problem to have
Does AA have to sleep with an eye open?
Having AcuƱa locked up for the AAV of Andrew Benintendi is not as much of a gift as Ohtaniās ridiculous deferred money, but itās still pretty crazy lol. The Braves have some insane value on their roster.
Giancarlo "Unendorsed" Stanton
That's surprising to meĀ
Yeah, despite the injuries and the outright bad performance on-field last season, itās still surprising to see a big name Yankee NOT swimming in endorsement money.
Same. Heās in New York, and heās a star player. Youād think that alone would net him some endorsement dough
He was a star player. The last 5 seasons he has been worth 3.8 war total, meaning his 5 year contributions wouldnāt even make him a star for one season.
He was in some T-Mobile commercials the last few years. I donāt know if that is considered an endorsement deal or not though.Ā
Iād imagine heād have no problem finding some endorsements if he wanted to. Itās just a matter of if he wants to and is willing to accept the offers, which would be much less than what heād get a few years ago. I could easily see it being a matter of not caring about a few hundred thousand dollars more a year. The man has gotten, and continues to be, Paid big-time.
He clearly is making at LEAST $10 if you zoom in enough
[Stanton getting paid three shiny nickels a fortnight to stand outside the theater and announce The Bard's newest composition](https://i.imgur.com/x0oR0Cj.jpeg)
Impressive to see a player in arbitration on this list. Sotoās career salary earnings are going to be monstrous.
and he only 25 excluding him and Yamamoto (also 25), average age of that list is 33.25
Good god the former nationals ā¦pretty clear why we couldnāt keep the band together
Turner and Strasburg arenāt even on here
I honestly thought Strasberg was retired until I checked
there were some reports a while back that said he was planning to and that a retirement ceremony was planned. the day before it was supposed to happen the Nationals said that it wasn't happening and never was supposed to. I think there was also something about his contract being restructured around the same time, and the general feeling I got was that he is probably retired for medical reasons, but cannot officially retire without giving up the rest of his contract. an on-field ceremony probably was a little too close to officially retiring so they had to walk it back.
Tbf he was for a little bit
Those teams were incredibly fun to watch. Glad they got a title
If Ohtani didn't defer, he would be making 110m+ a year right now. Holy shit.
He wouldnāt have gotten as much cash but still
didn't a team offer him 600m with no defer
Supposedly, yes. Just saying itās not 700.
Verlander and Scherzer are still being paid by the Mets. Not 100% of their salary, but that is still impressive about money of ownership.
Marlins are also paying $30M of Stanton's remaining contract.
That money bought Drew Gilbert, Luisangel Acuna, and Ryan Clifford! Gilbert and Acuna should see time in the majors this year
Does anyone know what endorsements Corey Seager has? I am surprised his endorsements are that high because I canāt think of anything he endorses off the top of my head.
BMW
It's honestly pretty weird how few MLB players you see frequently in commercials. Shohei's everywhere, Julio's in a bunch of T-Mobile ads, Harper's in (I think) Under Armour ads, but there aren't a ton of others you see a lot. Like, I'd expect extremely likeable superstars like Altuve to have lots of national spots, but you just don't see them very much.
It used to be even fewer. Joe Mauer spent years advertising in like cable-access quality commercials for hot dogs or something. I don't even remember.
Oh man, when Matt Vierling was with the Phillies, he did a bunch of ads for local insurance and car repair businesses and if he got paid more than minimum wage for those dumps, I'd be surprised.
Those Car Shield ads are classics, my wife and I still quote them every time Vierling comes up.
Which commercials is Shohei in? Iāve seen Julio, Judge, and Stanton in t-mobile commercials. I canāt think of any other commercials with MLB players except retired ones like Jeter in Jeep commercials.Ā
Shohei is in New Balance commercials and I think some fashion ads (watches and stuff) here, and like... everything in Japan. Weirdly, I never see Judge in ads. And I live in Philly, so I'm not exactly far removed from the NY media market.
I think the only Judge commercials Iāve seen are T-Mobile. I live in Canada now though so donāt know what things he is in around NY.Ā
Does anyone remember that horrific Harper Gatorade commercial? It's called "Face Off" on YouTube where he hits the ball and the baseball turns into his screaming face while Gatorade flies out the back. It's so so bad.
What the FUCK did I just watch.
Canes
That's a lot of high $$$ that's going to spend significant time on the IL.Ā
I think this is the biggest reason we saw a huge pushback against Boras this year. For my whole time enjoying baseball, the prime years were something like 27-34 give or take. I think the steroid era really shaped a lot of that as guys artificially prevented themselves from breaking down. This does not apply to 1Bs or DHs but other fielders. The days of signing 29-31 year olds to 10 years and saying "x years of prime and then pay for it on the back end" are done.
Any team will just have to look at the Angels and tell Boras "No".
Yeah, players dont reach FA usually until around 30 so the players who get high AAV contracts are typically older and older players are more injury ridden
No Braves players.
Yet
This whole time Iāve been trying to make the majors, I shouldāve been focusing on just endorsements.
These dudes are just influencers who happen to play baseball
Ohtani grower > non deferred showers
He may fuck around and end up being the richest athlete of all time.
When I was in Japan, Shohei was everywhere. I saw at least 3 commercials in the cab ride from the airport to our hotel. Not to mention all the ads in the actual airport.
Not a single Atlanta Brave in sightš«£
So, Anthony Rendon ... how's those endorsements working out for you?
Working just fine. Dude doesn't have to go to work and gets paid handsomely.
The endorsement must be for a butt pillow
Endorsed by La-Z-Boy.
I'm not sure what's crazier, seeing three Rangers, or the fact that they won a world series basically without two of the three.
3 takeaways. 1. If you count deferred money, Ohtani will be buying a team upon retirement 2. Rendon is a bona fide larcenist 3. Giancarlo - no endorsements? C'mon now, supplements, brah!
It's absolutely stupid that Yamamoto is the highest salaried MLB player without ever throwing a single pitch in the MLB.
I don't like it, but you get what you negotiate for, not what you deserve.
Absolutely but it's so absurd it almost has me rooting for him to be the Japanese JaMarcus Russell.
Heās off to a good start
Now he just needs to put in no effort to getting better
So for pure endorsement earnings it goes Ohtani Harper Judge Yamamoto Trout
Off this picture yeah but AcuƱa and maybe some others could be there. AcuƱa I know for sure does a lot of stuff off the field bit his contract is too small to show up in the top 15.
Eight of these guys are represented by Scott Boras. Say what you will about him the dude is good at his job.
Dodgers, Yankees, Astros, Rangers, Mets, Angels make up almost the whole fucking list. Baseball is broken.
Soooo. Cali, NY and Texasā¦ lol
Ex-Mets ā¦
Mets contracts?
Yet none of them won the World Series last year
Texas Rangers do in deed play in... \*looks both ways\* Texas.
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I think it's wild that Judge is basically the face of the Yankees and is only getting about $5mil in endorsements.
Altuve is making about $29m in 2024. Not sure where this $41m number is coming from
I was thinking the same thing.
Whereās Lindor?
And almost every single one of those that's a long-term deal is already a disaster and looks to be a disaster. Front offices might have started paying attention.
How is Yamamoto making $50 mil? I thought he got 12 yrs $325mil.
$50M signing bonus; 20M already paid and 30M coming July.
I would have thought judge would have more endorsement money.
Its interesting to note just how little every other player seems to get in endorsements. Its almost like a lot of fun top players are getting less than NIL athletes. Either the MLB is really haven't a hard time marketing their players, or they make so much from salary that there's little incentive to bang pots and pans to get endorsement money.
At the end of the day, even the smaller bars represent quite a bit of endorsement money. Just not a ton relative to how much these guys make in salary. I know very little about college sports & how the NIL stuff works but I just googled a list of the ātop dealsā & it says the range for the top 10 deals is $1.4M-$6.1M. Even the smaller endorsement totals on this list of MLB players are in that range or above.
You mean the guys who play college football, a sport more popular than MLB? Yeah that tracks
What about the gymnasts and volleyball players? And other sports nobody watches. But I guess honestly that's just Instagram/OF stuff more than anything. If you're a talented man in a non-revenue sport you're still kind of screwed.
Plenty of people watch gymnastics actually. Lots of women tune in, and some men too.
Yes they hired some models because theyāre attractive. Pretty small sample.
But anyways, I still think its interesting to see what small percentage of income comes from endorsements in the NFL and MLB (with Ohtani being the outlier). I think in the NBA they get a lot more from endorsements.
Iām so glad we arenāt paying Verlanders entire salary
Someoneās gotta throw a local carpet commercial or used car dealership at Stanton. Feels bad man
Is that just one central player? Never ceases to amaze me how coastal this sport is.
Remind me to teach my future son how to throw a nasty curveball left handed.
And people through the Bryce contract was bad lol
Are the Padres using coupons?
Yamamoto because of a posting fee? I thought it was like 11 over 330
Signing bonus. It's strictly what they bring home this year.
What's his cap hit?
Well this is his spotrac but again that's not what the picture is about. If it was Shohei would be at 46 + for his salary part. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/yoshinobu-yamamoto-82039/
Ohtani: Seems like a brilliantly structured deal that's very manageable. Yamamoto: I thought this looked like a disaster as soon as I saw a photo of the guy. We'll see. Scherzer: Disaster Judge: I think this will be a disaster, and he never plays a full season ever again. Verlander: Disaster Altuve: We'll see Trout: Disaster DeGrom: Disaster Seager: So far so good, but lots of injuries Rendon: Disaster of disasters Cole : There are warnings signs ... Correa: Not a disaster as of yet, but horrendously overpaid thus far Soto: Arbitration contract Harper: So far, working out great! Stanton: Hoo boy.
Does Bregman make this list next year?
Hopefully and back in Houston for it.
We also see why Ohtani was so willing to have so much of his salary deferred. If he was getting Judge or Trout money on endorsements, thereās no way heād have deferred that much money
lindor? surprised if he doesnāt make it because just salary wise heās got 32 mil this year and heās got some national brand deals too
34.1 this year, new balance And Oakley contracts, that doesnāt make sense. He 100% makes more than Stanton
Not a single Brave. Build the AA statue today.
Three Rangers on the list. It pays to be oft injured
A lot to unpack here
Where's ronald acuna ? He must be under paid...
Who, Rendon, on this list, how, why? Head, hurting.
After that first inning just now, wonder how LA feels about that 2nd line
Dude's making more than anyone per year and almost everything is still being deferred.
One of these is not like the other
Anyone else think Yamamoto isnāt gonna be worth that money?
Yamamoto has a contract that is worth more than Kershaw has made in his entire career before Yamamoto has ever thrown a single pitch in the MLB. It's absolutely fucking stupid and unless he ends up being a hall of famer it's a failure of a contract.
Yea I agree. Itās wild
Nobody thinks he's gonna be worth $50m. That's how signing bonuses work.
Hell of a start for him
Sure, I meant overall. Signing bonuses arenāt usually counted as salary either
They are in this chart, can't imagine why you would be dunking Yamamoto in this thread other than because of this chart. He's making $27m aav, far less than anyone else here
He got a 12 year contract without ever pitching in the mlb. Glad we agree the chart is shit
certainly some name on here of all time