ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Los Angeles Angels are far from finished with their effort to unlock Shohei Ohtani's enormous two-way potential.
Ohtani agreed to an $8.5 million, two-year contract with the Angels on Monday, avoiding arbitration. He will make $3 million in 2021 and $5.5 million in 2022, and both years are guaranteed.
Ohtani had asked for $3.3 million for the upcoming season, and the Angels had countered with $2.5 million. Instead of going to what would have been a difficult, complicated arbitration hearing because of Ohtani's two-way talents and the pandemic-shortened season, the sides reached a deal that extends up to his final year of arbitration eligibility in 2023. “Obviously it’s a unique case,” new Los Angeles general manager