Shohei Ohtani leads MLB players in jersey sales, six Dodgers crack top 20 list

Reigning National League MVP and World Series champion Shohei Ohtani has a stranglehold on MLB jersey sales over the past 18 months.

The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar’s Nike jersey has sold “more than any other in the U.S., Japan and worldwide” since 2023, according to a joint news release by MLB and the MLB Players Association.

Ohtani sits atop the 2025 season-opening list of most popular MLB player jerseys, which also features five of his Dodgers teammates in the top 20: Freddie Freeman (No. 2), Mookie Betts (No. 4), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (No. 10), Clayton Kershaw (No. 11) and Kiké Hernández (No. 16). Purchases were tracked since the 2024 World Series between the Dodgers and New York Yankees.

Two stars from the New York side of that matchup — Juan Soto (No. 3), now with the New York Mets, and Aaron Judge (No. 5) — rounded out the top five most popular jerseys to start the new season.

Yamamoto’s debut also marks the first time since Ichiro Suzuki and Yu Darvish in 2012 that two Japanese-born players have cracked the top 10 rankings in the same year. Four other newcomers into the top 20 spots include Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson, Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe and Kansas City Royals shortstop and 2024 AL MVP runner-up Bobby Witt Jr.

The full rankings are listed below:

1. Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
2. Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
3. Juan Soto, New York Mets
4. Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
5. Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
6. Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
7. Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
8. Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
9. Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
10. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Los Angeles Dodgers
11. Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
12. Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres
13. Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds
14. Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles
15. Paul Skenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
16. Kiké Hernández, Los Angeles Dodgers
17. Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
18. Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
19. Anthony Volpe, New York Yankees
20. Manny Machado, San Diego Padres

(Photo: Harry How / Getty Images)

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