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Should the Angel’s Shohei Ohtani be paid like a top line MLB starting pitcher like Matt Scherzer, an every day power hitting position player like Mike Trout, or both?
Scherzer is the highest paid pitcher currently earning $43 million a season. (that’s $4,777,778 per win; 9) so far this season for the Mets.
Trout is earning $35 million this season with 35 home runs, including a current streak of home runs in 7 straight games. (Note: Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long share the major league record of eight games in a row with a home run.
I know, who is Dale Long?
Richard Dale Long was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees and Washington Senators between 1951 and 1963. Listed as 6 feet 4 inches tall and 205 pounds, he batted and threw left-handed. Long‘s career was marked by two milestones. In 1956, he set an MLB record by hitting a home run in eight consecutive games.
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I say Ohtani earns both salaries.
$78 million a year as long as he does both. (JPY 11,125,993,190)
uドルで私に支払う (pay me in U.S. dollars)
He currently earns a mere $5.5 million with the Angels, the same Angels who signed Josh Hamilton to a 5 year, $125 million deal to play only two mediocre years in Anaheim. They even paid him $26.41 million to play for the Rangers in 2017 just to get rid of him.
Pay up Angels or the Yankees or Dodgers will when they get a chance.
Rick Clarke's Diary of a Mad Baseball Coach 