It turned out that Shohei Ohtani of the Major League Baseball Angels was distributing the prize money won in the home run competition of the All-Star game to the team staff.
Otani was the first Japanese player to participate in the All-Star Game Home Run competition held on the 12th of this month, and although he lost to Soto of the Nationals in the first round, he was excited by the heated battle that was involved in the re-extension.
The winning prize of the home run competition was about 110 million yen in Japanese yen, but Otani also won a prize of 150,000 dollars and about 16.5 million yen in Japanese yen, and according to the team officials, this prize is used by trainers and It means that it was distributed to the staff of the team such as public relations.
The American media reports that Otani distributed the prize money to about 30 staff members with gratitude.