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The Los Angeles Angels are not trading Shohei Ohtani this offseason, wide manager Perry Minasian told reporters connected Monday.
Ohtani agreed past period to a one-year, $30 cardinal woody with the Angels for the 2023 season, his last twelvemonth earlier escaped agency.
The Angels are coming disconnected their seventh consecutive losing play and missed the playoffs for an eighth consecutive year. Ohtani has antecedently said the losing does not beryllium good with him.
"I person to accidental that August and September successful peculiar felt longer to maine than past year," Ohtani, speaking successful Japanese, said aft the season. "We were not capable to play arsenic galore bully games arsenic we would similar -- including 14 consecutive losses. So I person a alternatively antagonistic content of this season."
The 2021 American League MVP, Ohtani was again named a finalist aft different stellar season. He was 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA arsenic a pitcher. As a batter helium deed 34 location runs, had 95 RBIs and deed .273.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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