The MVP of 2021 Shonei Ohtani will be a free agent at the end of this season, so in 2024 we could see him with another uniform and one of the teams that seems to be on the lookout to offer him a contract is the New York Mets according to various sources.
The Queens team has been investing heavily in recent years to try to return to a World Series, which they have not played since 2015 when they lost it against the Kansas City Royals and the key to returning to competitiveness in the MLB could be with the Japanese.
However, it would not be easy for the Mets to go for the versatile player, since most MLB teams will probably go looking for Ohtani and the figures they project that they would give for the Japanese are millionaires.
MLB Network reports indicate that Ohtani could be the first player to have a contract of $500 million dollars, in fact they affirm that the pitcher and hitter could aspire to a contract of $550 million dollars for 11 seasons.
On the other hand, there are those who affirm that he should have two separate contracts, one as a pitcher and the other as a hitter, and taking into account the numbers of the Angels player for now, the contract figure would exceed $600 million dollars.
For now Ohtani is preparing to play his sixth season in the MLB with the Los Angeles Angels; but with teams like the Dodgers, Padres, Mets and Phillies following him closely as potential bidders to sign him at the end of the season.
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