Ron Washington, the first-year manager of the Angels, is unfailingly positive. He was hired in part to inject relentless rah-rah into a franchise that hasn’t reached the playoffs since 2014.
Yet moments after news broke that Mike Trout would need surgery to repair a torn meniscus ... four days after Anthony Rendon revealed he has a “high-grade partial tear” in his left hamstring ... four months after Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers rather than return to the Angels ... Washington’s enthusiasm was muted.
“We’re going to miss Mike,” he said.