{"id":684624,"date":"2026-03-27T03:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/684624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:26:16","slug":"shohei-ohtani-leads-mlb-jersey-sales-heading-into-opening-day-for-3rd-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/684624\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani leads MLB jersey sales heading into opening day for 3rd straight season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani led Major League Baseball&#8217;s jersey sales going into opening day for the third straight season and was joined by two Los Angeles Dodgers teammates in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was second, followed by New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh and Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, Major League Baseball said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was the last player other than Ohtani to top the list, leading at the 2023 All-Star break. Ohtani took over the lead by the end of the season and has finished first in three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona third baseman Nolan Arenado, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, Baltimore first baseman Pete Alonso, Boston outfielder Roman Anthony and Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong followed as Raleigh and Anthony ranked among the top 10 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>MLB\u2019s list tracked sales on Fanatics\u2019 sites, including MLBShop.com, since the end of last year&#8217;s World Series, when the Dodgers won their second straight title.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani led Major League Baseball&#8217;s jersey sales going into opening day for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":684625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[3090,5643,18570,2731,4711,6595,138914,2502,1884,1266,2749,2228,21716,3687,1277,25270,20407,4712,62,67,132,68,20410],"class_list":["post-684624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-arizona","tag-baltimore","tag-boston","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-jersey-sales","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-pete-alonso","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-roman-anthony","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116299012063321115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}