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Dylan Hernandez: Will Arte Moreno prove to Shohei Ohtani he's fully invested in winning?

LOS ANGELES — The Angels can't have another year like any of the previous seven, not with a major crossroads approaching. Shohei Ohtani will be eligible for free agency after two more seasons. Ohtani is as close to reaching the open market as Mike Trout was when the Angels locked him up to a six-year, $144.5-million deal in 2014 and a 12-year, $426.5-million extension in 2019. Complicating the ...
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.

LOS ANGELES — The Angels can't have another year like any of the previous seven, not with a major crossroads approaching.

Shohei Ohtani will be eligible for free agency after two more seasons.

Ohtani is as close to reaching the open market as Mike Trout was when the Angels locked him up to a six-year, $144.5-million deal in 2014 and a 12-year, $426.5-million extension in 2019.

Complicating the effort to sign baseball's greatest attraction to a long-term contract is that

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