Sign Now, Pay Later

It appears Shohei Ohtani’s ten-year, $700 million contract is more of a twenty-year deal. For the first ten years, Ohtani will be paid $2 million a season, then $68 million a season for the next ten years. This gives the Dodgers some payroll flexibility in pursuing other free agents, or so they say. I wonder what kind of deal Jerry Reinsdorf would’ve signed off on? My guess is a hundred years at $700 million, or 700 hundred years.