I want to hear about show hail, tiny.

Or a white trout with free arm. Hello and welcome to episode 2097 of Effectively Wild, a baseball

podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Meg rally of fan graphs. Hello Meg.

Hello? That's Jorge Otani. Man. He's just full of surprises, isn't he?

That man has never ceased to surprise us

since he has come to our attention.

Usually it's because of something that he does on the field.

Now it's because of the contracts, although there have been two different surprises, really.

One was 700 million.

That's a lot of money.

Right. Now, we find out finally the precise structure and it is weird. It is extremely strange.

So here's the deal as reported by a friend of the show Fabianardaya of the athletic

almost all of this thing is deferred. So we knew per previous reporting that most of it was deferred turns out that's an

understatement. So 68 million a year of the 70 million is deferred so he's just making a mere 2 million a year while he's like actually playing for the Dodgers here.

And then he basically gets an enormous lump sum after that.

So it's just all pushed to the end of his contract and then the deferred money,

680 million, will be paid out without interest from 2034 to 2043.

Man, this is wild.

He was the best player in baseball and so it made sense for him to be the best paid player in baseball and also he's just the most shocking

expectation toppling player in baseball and he has done it again via this contract so I guess there are a couple things to mull over here.

One, the implications for the Dodgers, which are maybe even more extreme than we had sussed out previously.

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