Among the reasons why the Angels' playoff drought likely will reach 8 years: An inability to sign, acquire or draft and develop front-of-the-rotation starters, assemble deep bullpens and keep key players on the field. A look at the franchise's decisions:
in the spring of 2015 and was traded to the Rangers that April, the Angels eating $61 million of his contract.
The Angels paid a luxury tax only once under Moreno, in 2004, when they exceeded the threshold of $120.5 million by about $4 million, drawing a nominal fine of $927,000. To compete in 2023, they will have to push their payroll toward — or beyond —the $233-million threshold. “But every situation requires a winning intellect … and to have a hard-and-fast rule that you will never go beyond the luxury tax [threshold], to me, that does not fit winning,” Boras said. “I’m not saying you have to exceed barriers all the time, but you have to be prepared to [stretch payroll] to adapt to the market.”
“Guys were like, ‘Hey, we got a taste of it, we know what it takes,’ ” said Mota, who covered Scioscia-led teams that won the 2002 World Series and five division titles from 2004 to 2009. “They were like, ‘OK, let’s start another run.’ ” Left-hander C.J. Wilson, signed to a five-year, $77.5-million deal before 2012, had elbow surgery in August 2015 and didn’t pitch again. Hamilton suffered his relapse in the spring of 2015. Pujols put up good numbers in 2015 and 2016 before age and injuries caught up with him.
Among the starters signed from 2013 to 2021 were Joe Blanton , Tim Lincecum , Jesse Chavez , Matt Harvey , Trevor Cahill , Julio Teherán and José Quintana . Those seven pitchers combined to go 18-52 with a 6.48 ERA in 158 games for the Angels. The Angels did well to win an intense bidding war for Ohtani, who was limited by elbow surgery to two total starts on the mound in 2019 and 2020 before emerging as an ace in 2021.But when they failed to sign Cole before 2020, they seemed to repeat the Greinke-Hamilton mistake of a decade ago, signing Rendon — another deal led by Moreno — to a massive contract without adding a top-tier pitcher.
The Angels would not have had to pursue so many free-agent pitchers and high-priced position players if they had drafted, signed and developed a stable of effective arms and potent bats over the last decade. But they have not. Former scouting director Eddie Bane oversaw one of the best drafts in recent baseball history when he picked Randal Grichuk, Trout, Skaggs, Richards and Patrick Corbin in the first two rounds of 2009.
According to the minor league newsletter Down on the Farm, the Angels have generated the third-least amount of value, as measured by WAR, through the draft since 2010, ahead of only the Detroit Tigers and the Yankees. “We haven’t had a Julio Rodríguez or a Juan Soto or a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. come out of our system,” Tuerffs said.
“What I see is the same front-office and dugout instability that has been present throughout the Angels’ history, and there’s nowhere else to go back to except the owner,” said Ross Newhan, the Hall of Fame Times baseball writer who covered the Angels from 1961 until his 2004 retirement.
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