What to know about Shohei Ohtani's extreme $700 million Dodgers deal, MLB deferred contracts Ohtani and the Dodgers aren’t blazing a new trail – rather destroying the scale of deferred contracts that baseball is accustomed to.- Gabe Lacques USA TODAY

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