The A’s signed 18-year-old Japanese two-way player Shotaro Morii to a minor league contract, which included a $1,510,500 million bonus, on Wednesday. The bonus is the largest ever for a Japanese amateur outside of the Nippon Professional Baseball league, per MLB Pipeline.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,