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Dan Hajducky
A number of Authors
The jersey two-way star Shohei Ohtani wore throughout Japan’s 13-0 win over Chinese language Taipei within the World Baseball Basic on March 6 bought for $1,500,010 by way of MLB Auctions on Sunday night time — probably the most ever paid for an Ohtani jersey at public sale.
In that recreation, performed on the Tokyo Dome, Ohtani hit a grand slam and had 5 RBIs.
He hit .462 with a 1.842 OPS on the WBC total. Japan, the 2023 champion, fell to eventual winner Venezuela within the quarterfinals.
Over the seven-day public sale, Ohtani’s No. 16 jersey racked up an astounding 298 bids. It was a sizeable enhance from the 2023 MLB Auctions sale whereby Ohtani’s jersey from a pool play WBC recreation towards Australia bought for $126,100.
The current public sale urge for food for Ohtani is ravenous. Within the final three months, two playing cards that includes game-worn Ohtani jersey patches and on-card signatures have eclipsed $2 million at public sale: The 2025 Topps Chrome MVP Award Gold MLB Logoman Ohtani card, which bought for $3 million simply earlier than Christmas, and the 2025 Topps Chrome twin MVP gold Logoman that includes Ohtani and Aaron Judge, which bought for $2.16 million on March 20.
Ohtani’s fiftieth dwelling run ball in 2024 — which established the primary 50-50 season in MLB historical past — bought for $4.39 million to Taiwanese funding agency UC Capital in October 2024, a file paid for a baseball. That cash has remained in escrow as litigation over the ball’s possession continues, with a jury trial within the eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida court docket at present slated for July 20.
