Baseball two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and won’t pitch again in 2023, Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian told reporters late Wednesday.

Ohtani, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player and frontrunner for the award again this season, exited his start Wednesday during the second inning. Ohtani leads the major leagues with 44 home runs and a 1.069 OPS this season as a hitter, and is 10-5 with a 3.14 ERA and 167 strikeouts in 132 innings on the mound.

“It’s a tough day for him,” Minasian said, via Bally Sports West. “Tough day for all of us.”

Ohtani underwent Tommy John ligament replacement surgery for a similar injury in 2018, and did not pitch in 2019 and only briefly in 2020. He is reportedly seeking a second opinion before deciding on surgery this time around.

The 29-year-old Ohtani is the first player in more than a century to regularly pitch and hit simultaneously at the major-league level, and by far the most accomplished for a sustained period. He has 171 home runs and a .921 OPS in six seasons with the Angels as a hitter, and a 3.01 ERA and 608 strikeouts in 481.1 innings as a pitcher.

Complicating matters is that Ohtani is a free agent after this season. The Angels resisted opportunities to trade him at the Aug. 1 deadline, and he was expected to command upwards of $40 million per season on the open market this winter prior to the injury.

In other crushing news for the Angels, star outfielder Mike Trout is headed back to the injured list after playing in just one game following a seven-week layoff. Trout — a 3-time AL MVP himself — suffered a broken bone in his wrist in early July, and went 1-for-4 with a single in his return Tuesday before complaining about soreness.

Without Trout, the Angels have fallen out of the AL wild-card race after contending much of the season. They enter Thursday with a 61-67 record, 10.5 games out of the final wild-card playoff spot.