The Los Angeles Angels had been very busy on the commerce deadline after they acquired gamers reminiscent of Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, C.J. Cron, and Randal Grichuk to bolster their roster.
Nonetheless, since shopping for on the deadline, the Halos haven’t gained a sport.
On Monday, they dropped their seventh consecutive sport and fell to 2 video games under the .500 mark.
The Angels are additionally 11.5 video games out of first place within the AL West and eight video games again within the Wild Card race.
The staff made the choice to carry onto Shohei Ohtani.
Nonetheless, Ken Rosenthal believes that this wasn’t even the start of the errors they made and traced the whole lot again to final yr’s commerce deadline, by way of Foul Territory on Twitter.
“The unique sin was protecting Ohtani eventually yr’s deadline.”
Extra from @Ken_Rosenthal on this week’s Honest Territory: https://t.co/JIjMISaf4r pic.twitter.com/l3OcnNhF28
— Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) August 8, 2023
Ultimately yr’s deadline, the Angels had been already nicely out of postseason rivalry and had an opportunity to commerce Ohtani whereas he nonetheless had a yr of management left on his contract.
Rosenthal likened the state of affairs to that of the Juan Soto commerce, when the Washington Nationals scored a haul in change for the slugger from the San Diego Padres.
At this level, Rosenthal believes that there was good cause for the Halos to maintain Ohtani, since they had been, and nonetheless are in rivalry.
Nonetheless, the Angels are slipping within the standings and slowly falling farther from rivalry.
Rosenthal mentioned he can be shocked if the Angels recovered from this, and identified that their determination to not commerce Ohtani is backfiring on them.
The Angels are on a slide and are slowly falling out of rivalry because the month of August progresses.
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