{"id":144711,"date":"2025-07-04T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=144711"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:26:28","slug":"bts-suga-is-betting-big-on-baseball-following-his-military-discharge-becoming-a-shareholder-of-the-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-suga-is-betting-big-on-baseball-following-his-military-discharge-becoming-a-shareholder-of-the-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 SUGA is betting big on baseball following his military discharge, becoming a shareholder of The Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the military to the stadium,<strong> SUGA of BTS<\/strong> is making money moves! On July 4, it was revealed that the K-pop star is part of a $70 million investment helping MLB team <strong>The Athletics<\/strong> move from Oakland to Las Vegas. And he\u2019s not doing it alone, as he\u2019s teaming up with Korean baseball icon Park Chan Ho and a few other high-profile business moguls to back the team\u2019s expensive new future.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btschartsdailyc\/status\/1941069950111580270\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[NEWS] Park Chan Ho and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SUGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SUGA<\/a> will become shareholders of the Athletics (formerly Oakland Athletics), a Major League Baseball ( MLB ) team famous for the movie &#39;Moneyball&#39;. <\/p>\n<p>They have decided to invest 70 million dollars (approximately 95.5 billion won) in the Athletics, which\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tWYv0ONaL6\">pic.twitter.com\/tWYv0ONaL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS Charts Daily (@btschartdaily7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btschartdaily7\/status\/1941069950111580270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Athletics have been based in Oakland since 1968, but a new 1.75 billion USD stadium is being built in Vegas, set to open by 2028. SUGA\u2019s investment (through Park\u2019s agency Team 61) will buy 2 to 3% of the team\u2019s new shares. And while the BTS rapper might not be the most skilled baseball player, he sure has a big business mindset! And while the idol has never been an out and proud baseball fan, he did admit in an interview that watching sports like basketball, soccer, and baseball is one of his hobbies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CYPHERS_DDAENG3\/status\/1941062077189423186\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc31: I loved watching sports ever since  I was little.<\/p>\n<p> \ud83d\udc31: I don\u2019t have something I could call \u2018hobby\u2019 I read books, and watch almost kind of sports. I love watching sports games, UFC, basketball, soccer, baseball, and so on.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SUGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SUGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%8A%88%EA%B0%80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uc288\uac00<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QCqlZX36sI\">pic.twitter.com\/QCqlZX36sI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2022\ud83d\udc9c\u0280\u1d0fs\u1d07\u2077\ud83e\udd43\ud83e\udd62\u14da\u1560\u15e2\u2022 (BUSY) (@CYPHERS_DDAENG3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CYPHERS_DDAENG3\/status\/1941062077189423186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While neither SUGA nor Park has spoken publicly about the deal, fans are buzzing. Could this lead to K-pop collabs at baseball games? Korean player recruitment? BTS night at the ballpark? Either way, SUGA\u2019s stepping up to the plate, and this time, it\u2019s not for a concert. Game on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the military to the stadium, SUGA of BTS is making money moves! On July 4, it was revealed that the K-pop star is part of a $70 million investment helping MLB team The Athletics move from Oakland to Las Vegas. And he\u2019s not doing it alone, as he\u2019s teaming up with Korean baseball icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":144712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,935],"class_list":{"0":"post-144711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-suga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}