The Angels are trying to thread a needle with the pitching they've signed this winter (Syndergaard, Loup, Lorenzen, Iglesias) -- they are trying to augment their staff for 2022, 2023 while also trying to maintain payroll flexibility for looming Shohei Ohtani mega-deal talks.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) December 1, 2021