Hernández: The Angels are betting they can keep Shohei Ohtani, but is Arte Moreno ready to pay?
that he should move to a perennial contender, both for his sake and baseball’s — but the Angels aren’t counting themselves out just yet.
While Ohtani hasn’t said he wants to play for the Angels beyond this year, he hasn’t said he doesn’t want to, either. The Angels have created for him an environment in which he can more or less do what he wants when he wants. His media obligations are limited to postgame scrums on nights he pitches. He calls his own pitches, even though results point to him being better off with his catchers making those decisions; he’s posted a 5.06 earned-run average during his past eight starts.late in his MVP season in 2021 about his desire to win being stronger than his affinity for the Angels or their fans.
There’s something admirable about a team defying the industry’s conventional wisdom that it’s smarter to trade a superstar early rather than to risk losing him for nothing at the end of his contract. The Washington
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