In case you haven’t noticed — and judging from the anger on LA Angels message boards all over, you definitely have — the Angels’ season has hit the skids. On pace to miss the playoffs for the eighth time in nine seasons, and with Mike Trout‘s 2020 free agency looming in the not-so-distant future as a deadline for legitimacy, the Angels spent a busy off-season loading up for this season.
Thus far, it hasn’t worked, and this is a pattern common to the Arte Moreno ownership era. The Angels have consistently tried to acquire big money names in an attempt to leap into contention and steal headlines from their big blue neighbors up the I-5.