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    Angels' Shohei Ohtani is ready for the 2022 season: 'Aim higher and higher'

    by Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2022 6 minutes
    The Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani follows through on a swing during a spring training game against the Colorado Rockies at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on March 29, 2022, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

    TEMPE, Ariz. — It took only a few days with his new club for Angels pitcher Noah Syndergaard to grasp the eminence of Shohei Ohtani, the two-way phenom who was a unanimous choice for American League most valuable player last season.

    "Man, the aura around him … " Syndergaard said during the first week of spring training. "You can definitely tell that there's a greatness to his presence."

    Syndergaard saw the highlights from 2021 and marveled at Ohtani's freakish ability to throw a baseball 100 mph and hit one 450 feet. He was in awe of the numbers Ohtani posted in what was arguably the greatest all-around season in baseball history.

    And this spring, after signing a one-year, $21 million deal with the Angels in November, Syndergaard got a look under the hood at the engine that drives Ohtani, a work ethic that has become almost legendary and is fueling what seems like an impossible dream for 2022:

    That Ohtani can be even better.

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