Shohei Ohtani News: Insider Gives Angels '5 Percent Chance' to Extend Two-Way Superstar
Angels two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani is going to be an unrestricted free agent in about 10 months from now. He's going to command a contract upwards of $500 million, and will have tons of suitors after his two-way services.
MLB insider Jon Heyman has been very active in reporting on Ohtani this offseason, and has made the outlook for the Angels bringing him back look very bleak.
In a recent report, he said that a rival gave the Angels a '5 percent' chance of keeping Ohtani in Anaheim past 2023.
"The chances the Angels keep two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani — which is what matters to Orange County baseball now — very likely dropped from not too great to even less great," Heyman wrote. "One rival flat-out says: "The chance of him being an Angel on Opening Day 2024 is about 5 percent.""
He wrote this after Arte Moreno's decision to keep the team, which he thinks made matters much worse for the Angels potentially bringing Ohtani back. He thinks the Angels are all but out of the race for Ohtani, and expects the Los Angeles Dodgers to be the favorite to land him.
However, he's also mentioned the New York Mets as a realistic landing spot, and we can't count out the San Diego Padres, either. It's going to be a fun 10 months of rumors surrounding Ohtani — but probably not for Angels fans.
