Major League Baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani is joining FTX as its newest brand ambassador, the company announced Tuesday.
Ohtani’s compensation for the deal will be paid entirely in cryptocurrency and FTX equity, according to a report from CNN.
The deal with the Los Angeles Angels’ ace and MVP frontrunner is just the latest of the exchange’s many sports-related sponsorships inked in the last year.
FTX signed former MLB slugger David Ortiz as a multi-year ambassador in October, along with a deal that put the exchange’s logo on the patches of MLB umpires in July.
Ohtani joins the likes of Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Tom Brady and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry as ambassadors to the exchange. CNN was first to report the news.
FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told CoinDesk in October that the exchange will also be airing a commercial during the Super Bowl in February.
