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Being baseball's highest-paid player: Ohtani is latest in long line of record setters - The Athletic
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Meet Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history: the Los Angeles Dodgers' newest recruit got his start in Nippon Professional Baseball like teammate Shohei Ohtani – and loves to fish
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Shohei Ohtani becomes world's highest-paid athlete after signing lucrative contract with Dodgers - CBSSports.com
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