{"id":395867,"date":"2023-02-01T06:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395867"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:08:47","slug":"ohtani-signs-with-boston-based-new-balance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ohtani-signs-with-boston-based-new-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani signs with Boston-based New Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time American League All-Star and 2021 AL Most Valuable Player Shohei Ohtani has signed <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">a multi-year endorsement deal <\/span>with Boston-based sports apparel company New Balance.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Los Angeles Angels star two-way player from Japan has become a face of Major League Baseball after performances on the mound and at the plate, including becoming the first person to start as pitcher and lead off in an All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani immediately made an impact when he joined the Angels in 2018, earning Rookie of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p>He played for Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">He&#39;s unlike anything you&#39;ve ever seen. And now he wears New Balance. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newbalance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@newbalance<\/a> family, Shohei Ohtani. <\/p>\n<p>\u5f7c\u306f\u4eca\u307e\u3067\u2f92\u305f\u3053\u3068\u3082\u306a\u3044\u3088\u3046\u306a\u5b58\u5728\u3002\u305d\u306e\u5f7c\u304c\u3044\u307e\u30cb\u30fc\u30d0\u30e9\u30f3\u30b9\u3092\u7740\u308b\u3002 \u3088\u3046\u3053\u305d\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30d0\u30e9\u30f3\u30b9\u30d5\u30a1\u30df\u30ea\u30fc\u3078 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeGotNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeGotNow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8pM19VZeGd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8pM19VZeGd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Balance (@newbalance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newbalance\/status\/1620548342341304322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time American League All-Star and 2021 AL Most Valuable Player Shohei Ohtani has signed a multi-year endorsement deal with Boston-based sports apparel company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395868,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17073,17254],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Japanese is the first person to start as pitcher and lead off in an All-Star Game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395867"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395867"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}