Shohei Ohtani's Tokyo Series Jersey Sells for $2.06 Million

The road-gray Dodgers jersey carries the first Gold MLB Logoman ever worn in an official game, plus his kanji signature.

Shohei Ohtani's road-gray Dodgers jersey from the night he finally played a big-league game at home in Japan has sold for $2,055,700.

That's a public-auction record for a baseball jersey worn this century, KTLA reported Monday, citing The Realest, the memorabilia platform that ran the sale. The figure includes the buyer's premium, according to the lot's own page. The mark it passed was the $1.792 million paid for Aaron Judge's 2016 big-league debut jersey.

The Realest's pitch leaned on a patch. The gold Logoman was new in 2025, reserved for players who'd won one of the big awards the season before, and Ohtani earned his as the 2024 National League MVP. His, the listing says, was the first one worn in a game that counted, because Tokyo is where that season started.

The timing stings a little. Bidding was set to close Saturday night, Sports Illustrated reported in a story carried by Yahoo Sports. Two days earlier, the Milwaukee Brewers had finished sweeping the Dodgers out of the National League Championship Series, ending their run at a third straight World Series title, KYMA reported. Ohtani homered in the finale anyway.

The jersey comes from a happier opener. Ohtani wore it on March 18, 2025, when the Dodgers played the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome to start that season, and he got his first hit of the year in it. No MLB game has ever drawn more viewers in Japan, the listing says: more than 25 million watched.

Ohtani's handwriting is on it too, in kanji and English, noting the date, the game and the MVP season. The listing describes it as authenticated by MLB and photo-matched.

Ohtani had already set a record for his own jerseys once this year: the one he wore at the World Baseball Classic went for $1.5 million in March, KTLA reported. And the Judge mark had a twist of its own. His debut jersey was headed to Sotheby's in July with an estimate of $3 million to $5 million, MLB.com reported.

His later gold patches went another way. They were pulled off his uniforms and built into one-of-one Topps cards, the listing says, and one of those, a dual-autograph card, brought $11 million. The first one never left. It's still sewn on, right above OHTANI and the 17.

Source: ktla.com, retrieved October 19, 2026. Other sources: therealest.com, sports.yahoo.com, kyma.com, mlb.com.