The key piece of Ohtani's contract is $680 million is deferred over the 10 years following his deal with the Dodgers and he will make just $2 million per year over the next 10 years. With no interest being paid on the money owed, the deferrals lower the value of the contract to just shy of $440 million due to inflation, and it decreases the competitive balance tax hit to just north of $46 million.
But perhaps the most interesting part of his deal is Ohtani tied his contract to Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter and president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. Ohtani has the ability to opt out of his contract if either of them are no longer with the Dodgers, according to Beth Harris and Ronald Blum of The Associated Press:
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