Perspective: Shohei Ohtani, the Angels’ two-way star, has fellow players and managers in awe of his combination of talent and quiet grace. And he’s about to become a free agent.
At this All-Star Game, it’s hard to know whether the compliments are innocent expressions of admiration or sly attempts at tampering. When talking about Ohtani, even tempered appreciation sounds like hyperbole. He’s six seasons into the most prolonged two-way dominance baseball has ever seen. Over time, he has proved to be a stable Cy Young Award-caliber pitcher and a fearsome slugger still ascending at the plate.
And there’s a possibility that, soon, he can be yours. Well, with a couple of asterisks: The bidding war should include multiple offers of more money than any athlete has ever seen in a single contract, and he’s believed to have a strong West Coast bias. The hitting half of the player could demand a $350 million contract without any sheepishness. And the pitching half is a rotation-altering ace, typically the most coveted commodity in baseball.
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