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Has Ohtani given any indication that he wants to leave the Angels?

There are rumors, but he’d never say anything publicly.

We’d have to show considerable improvement by the end of next season to interest Ohtani, but I doubt we’d be willing to financially go where that would require us to go.  How do you value a guy who pitches like a #1 starter and hits like a middle of the order guy?  Do you price out each half separately and add them together?  In a way it’s like you have insurance against the disaster of signing a #1 starter and having them blow their arm out, because you still have the hitter half.  And he’s a damn good OF too, if it ever came to that.