It’s crazy to think that the Angels have had Mike Trout in the MLB for eight years and are just barely beginning to build the Angels brand around thim. It always seemed like the Angels weren’t building around Trout but instead stacking pieces randomly together with little rhyme and zero reason. That’s not actually true, they had plenty of reasoning behind the lacking moves they’ve made throughout the majority of Trouts career.
The Angels built the team around former manager Mike Scioscia and team owner Arte Moreno, with the logic mainly being what would keep Arte popular and what Scioscia wanted in the lineup.