The Los Angeles Angels is a mixture of youth and veterans. Many of the veterans they had in 2016 had overpriced contracts which made it tough for Eppler to make any kind of moves to vastly improve the team without giving up some of their young talent.
The Angels have a few players from their farm system who have worked out nicely C.J. Cron, Kole Calhoun, Garrett Richards, Matt Shoemaker, and Tyler Skaggs (he came up with the Angels, was traded and now is back) and of course Mike Trout.