Spotrac: Dodgers' Remaining Cash Owed for Shohei Ohtani, Every Multi-Year Contract

The Los Angeles Dodgers have built themselves a superteam thanks in part to some creative accounting that's seen the franchise kicking money down the road using deferred payments.

Right now, the Dodgers are flying high as the defending World Series champions, and they'll be competing for the Fall Classic for years to come.

There is a cost for that, of course, and Spotrac's Michael Ginnitti reported Wednesday that the team owes $1.836 billion in cash on every current Dodger multi-year contract.

• DH/SP Shohei Ohtani: $698M through 2043 ($680 million deferred 2034-2043)

• IF/OF Mookie Betts: $297M through 2044 ($115 million deferred 2033-2044)

• SP Yoshinobu Yamamoto: $270M through 2035 (no deferred money)

• SP Blake Snell: $182M through 2046 ($65.5 million deferred 2035-2046)

• SP Tyler Glasnow: $111.5M through 2028 (no deferred money)

• 1B Freddie Freeman: $102M through 2040 ($57 million deferred 2028-2040)

• C Will Smith: $101.45M through 2043 ($50 million deferred 2034-2043)

• IF/OF Tommy Edman: $74M through 2044 ($25 million deferred 2035-2044)

The Dodgers also owe free agent outfielder Teoscar Hernández a total of $8.5 million from 2030-2039. L.A. previously signed Hernández to a one-year, $23.5 million contract for the 2024 campaign.

All told, L.A. owes $1,006,500,000 in deferred money to seven players, per Ronald Blum of the Associated Press.

So there will be a hefty price to pay in the 2030s and 2040s when these players' careers are long gone.

In the meantime, though, the Dodgers have positioned themselves as a perennial World Series favorite, and there's no end in sight to that label with a host of stars, particularly three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani, leading the way.