Angels Manager Ron Washington Alludes to Having Positive Information on Shohei Ohtani's Free Agency

His quote has taken the MLB world by storm.

The MLB winter meetings are underway, and as always, all eyes are on two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. The highly-touted free agent is yet to make his decision, and the MLB world is anxiously waiting to see where he'll go.

Angels new manager Ron Washington was asked about the Ohtani sweepstakes on Monday, and had about as interesting a response as anyone could have imagined.

"I don't have much to say about that yet because I don't want to let anything out of the bag."

New Angels manager Ron Washington on Shohei Ohtani:

“I don’t have much to say about that yet because I don’t want to let anything out of the bag” 👀

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— Ben Verlander (@BenVerlander) December 4, 2023

There's a lot to break down here, so let's start at the top.

Washington is saying he doesn't have much to say "yet," making it sound like he'll have things to say soon but isn't able to right now for whatever reason.

Then, he says he doesn't "want to let anything out of the bag," making it sound even more like he has some important information regarding Ohtani's free agency, likely pertaining to the Angels.

Washington wanting to be careful about what he says does make it sound like he thinks the Angels are a legit contender to bring Ohtani back, and for all we know, they've maybe had very good conversations this offseason.

Everyone has seemed to count the Angels out of the Ohtani sweepstakes, but Washington has brought everyone back in with this comment.

Obviously, we have to take all this information with a grain of salt, but the words used by Washington on Monday are very, very interesting to say the least.