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For most teams, even bad ones, I can find an upside case. I can’t for the Angels. Ohtani is up the 5 freeway, Trout is 33, Rendon is semi-retired. They haven’t had a .500 season since 2015. There are a lot of players in their twenties, just none for whom you can foresee breakouts. Both Baseball America and Keith Law rank the Angels’ farm system as the worst in the game.
There’s no past, no present, and no future in Anaheim. They need a complete and total reset from the top of the franchise down.
