Lurch tries to predict Ohtani's future contract
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I know you saw this, but show a hit two more homeruns last night, and he's got 20. |
| 0:08.8 | He's got 50 RBI's, he's playing 66 games, he's got 20, he's going to hit 50 homers. |
| 0:13.9 | All right, and he's going to be a free agent. |
| 0:18.9 | They're talking about $500 million. |
| 0:22.0 | He might be worth more than that. |
| 0:23.7 | I mean, he can't just, and he's got prodigious power, he can pitch, he's getting better |
| 0:28.6 | as a hitter, and he's 20, is he 28, 27 or 28, but he's getting better as a hitter. |
| 0:36.9 | And if there's one, he might hit, you know, he's hitting 291 right now, I'm guessing he's |
| 0:41.1 | going to be, you know, pretty close to 300 at the end of the year. |
| 0:44.1 | He's going to hit 50 homers, he's going to drive him in well over 100 RBI's. |
| 0:47.6 | If there's one guy who's worth $500 million, and that's a crazy number in sports, especially |
| 0:53.6 | in baseball, it's Otani. |
| 0:57.6 | He might be worth more than that. |
| 0:59.6 | And I know that the guy in New York, the owner of the Met's Cohen, he just doesn't care |
| 1:04.2 | about money. |
| 1:05.2 | He'll just go out, that's one guy, I'm sure there's a couple others that'll be willing |
| 1:09.7 | to spend that much, but that's one guy that will spend 500 million on a player. |
| 1:13.2 | He wouldn't even blink. |
| 1:14.8 | He wouldn't, but, and sometimes I laugh at these numbers, he's not worth that much. |
| 1:20.8 | He might be worth at least that if not more as good as he is. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, and it's, it's less than a handful of teams. |
| 1:28.2 | It would be able to afford him that would have that cash out for maybe five, like the |
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