AL MVP frontrunner left start Wednesday after 2nd inning
Aug. 24, 2023, 8:20 a.m.
Ohtani, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player and frontrunner for the award again this season, exited his start Wednesday during the second inning. Ohtani leads the major leagues with 44 home runs and a 1.069 OPS this season as a hitter, and is 10-5 with a 3.14 ERA and 167 strikeouts in 132 innings on the mound.Ohtani underwent Tommy John ligament replacement surgery for a similar injury in 2018, and did not pitch in 2019 and only briefly in 2020.
Complicating matters is that Ohtani is a free agent after this season. The Angels resisted opportunities to trade him at the Aug. 1 deadline, and he was expected to command upwards of $40 million per season on the open market this winter prior to the injury. Without Trout, the Angels have fallen out of the AL wild-card race after contending much of the season. They enter Thursday with a 61-67 record, 10.5 games out of the final wild-card playoff spot.
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