{"id":438220,"date":"2023-06-21T04:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T08:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438220"},"modified":"2023-06-21T04:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T08:42:13","slug":"shohei-ohtani-to-stay-at-angels","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/shohei-ohtani-to-stay-at-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani to stay at Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani is likely to stay at his current club Los Angeles Angels, if they successfully proceed to the playoff rounds, said head-coach Perry Minasian on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani is set to become a free agent in the summer, but the Minasian fully believes the superstar is here to stay as he aims to end Angels&#8217; eight-year playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty self-explanatory with where we\u2019re at (in the standings),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Ohtani is the starlet in Los Angeles squad and is the heart and soul of their success, leading the major league in homers, RBIs, slugging percentage and batting average.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT&#39;S SHO-TIME \u23f0<\/p>\n<p>Shohei Ohtani is the American League Player of the Week! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qv6BOzw4Q6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qv6BOzw4Q6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Angels\/status\/1671256611623682049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ohtani is hitting .300 with a 1.016 OPS, 24 homers and 58 RBIs. On the mound, the 2021 AL MVP and 2022 runner-up is 6-2 with a 3.29 ERA, and his 105 strikeouts are the fifth-most in the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani is likely to stay at his current club Los Angeles Angels, if they successfully proceed to the playoff rounds, said head-coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438221,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17073,17254],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18552,18481],"acf":{"announce":"The superstar is not going anywhere as the Los Angeles team targets the playoffs","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438220"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438220"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}