Angels’ Ohtani to start Opening Day, won’t comment on pending free agency
Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani held his first media session of the 2023 MLB season Thursday morning on the workforce’s spring coaching facility in Tempe, Ariz.
Ohtani is scheduled to be a free agent on the finish of the season and was requested if he could be open to signing a contract extension with the Angels.
“This is my last year and I’m aware of that. As of now, I’m an Angel, and that’s what I want to focus on,” the 2022 AL runner-up for MVP mentioned via translator Ippei Mizuhara. “I haven’t really thought too far ahead.”
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While Ohtani wouldn’t share a lot about his future, he did say that the workforce is trying to win in 2023.
“I do firmly believe the Angels are on the same page as me,” he mentioned. “They want to win as much as I do. I can’t tell you what they are really thinking, but I like to believe that.”
The workforce hasn’t completed with a successful file in Ohtani’s 5 years stateside, regardless of the 28-year-old having received the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year, the 2021 AL MVP and making two all-star groups.
The Angels additionally confirmed on Thursday that Ohtani will begin his second-straight Opening Day once they tackle the Oakland Athletics on March 30.
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Before heading to Tokyo to affix Team Japan for the World Baseball Classic, the two-way star is scheduled to start out the Angels’ March 1 spring coaching recreation in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers.
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