The Los Angeles Angels haven’t reached the playoffs since 2014. In the seven seasons since then, they’ve had either the league MVP and/or the league leader in bWAR four times, but the team still lost anyway. Their last winning record came in 2015, and they finished fourth place in the AL West division each of the past four summers.
One glaring reason for their struggles has been their consistent failure to build a pitching staff. They rarely appear to prioritize that area of the roster at all, instead dumping all their money into mega-contracts for superstar right-handed hitters and then building a discount rotation and bullpen fueled mostly by optimism.