LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: Trout is back!

Alden Gonzalez writes a great piece on the Angels and Arte; he covered all the bases of the team in the last 12 years. How many of us through the years have said the same things and thought we were keeping it too just ourselves. It’s out there now, Arte has collected stars like baseball cards, robbed the team of recourses in some areas to covers the cost of his wild ideas and really has not cared one iota about the Angels as a whole and has driven the bus with no destination plotted.

Gonzalez glosses over upper management a tad, but the real problem has been Arte himself, we’ve been saying this for years. 5 General managers that never had been in that position prior to the Angels, 5 Managers, 4 of whom sucked (Sosh will always be #1 in the hearts of many) and payrolls that have been some of the highest in the game.

Also telling is the huge amount of time that Mike Trout has missed because of injuries, “scheduled” days off, and just not wanting to play. (BTW, until I heard Nevin say scheduled days off, now every team uses the term. The Rays used the term for France recently trying to avoid his sex scandals.). My fondest memories of trouty will always be the greatness achieved from 2012-2016. In retrospect Trout sure has missed a lot of baseball with Ohtani and him playing with each other.

How to fix the broken franchise? Build a solid core in the front office, terminating all the dead weight in the positions above the GM, and I do mean all. Perry Minasian seems to have his head on straight, with a vision and knowledge of how to build. Time to bring on the very best people into play at managing the different departments while being accountable.

Arte needs to get a suite and watch games being played and just stay away. Trout needs to change whatever routines he has to ones that work at keeping him in playing shape. Maybe time has come for a change in gloves such as a First Baseman’s glove.

Shyt or get of the pot backfired with keeping Ohtani and trading some kids for some short-term help. (Maybe Lynn would have been a better choice) But something had to be done and someone (Arte) made the call to go for it. More than half here thought they made the right choice.

By the virtue of the power of ownership, Arte wants to stay, so be it, but I wish the team would sell and rebuild, because what has been the normal for 14 years has not been working and won’t work down the road either. It will take time to rebuild with the big contracts to work around, but rebuilding the Front Office is a great start.