Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
After the results of his MRI came in, the prognosis for Shohei Ohtani returning to the mound for the Angels in 2020 appears dim.
When Shohei Ohtani left the mound on Sunday, and word leaked of the pitcher receiving an MRI on his surgically-repaired elbow, optimism was already running short on whether he would pitch again in 2020. Now that the results are in, that optimism has all but dried up.
The Los Angeles Angels announced on Monday that Ohtani has a grade 1-2 strain of the flexor-pronator mass in his pitching elbow.