With the deepest free agent class in years, the time is ripe for Arte Moreno to finally cross the luxury tax threshold for the first time in more than a decade.
It feels like so long ago that Arte Moreno bought the Angels and immediately endeared himself to the fanbase by making his first order of business lowering beer prices. In his first offseason he ponied up and signed Vladimir Guerrero, Bartolo Colon, Kelvim Escobar and Jose Guillen. Soon after, he imported teenage Cuban star Kendry Morales, then drafted the Boras-advised Jered Weaver, who fell to the team due to signability concerns.