Angels News: Halos Come in Lowest Spot of Season in Final Power Rankings of 2023
The Angels continued their downward spiral for the past decade after another season without a winning record or playoff baseball in 2023.
Anaheim earned a lackluster ranking among the rest of the league as a result and now heads into an uncertain offseason with plenty of questions.
26. Los Angeles Angels (73-89)
A 10-3 stretch of games to close out July convinced the Los Angeles Angels to hold onto free-agent-to-be Shohei Ohtani at the trade deadline in favor of making an all-in push to contend. They won just 17 more games the rest of the year. With Ohtani headed out the door and the future of fellow superstar Mike Trout seemingly uncertain, the Angels could be headed for a major rebuilding effort this offseason that puts the idea of contending on hold for the foreseeable future.
Fans of the team excruciatingly suffered through another dismal Halos season but injuries made this year in particular one of the worst in recent memory.
Anthony Rendon alongside Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani all suffered season-ending injuries that ended their years prematurely and caused many fans similar pain due to their absences.
Now six years into the Ohtani-Trout era, the franchise hasn't given two of the best players in the sport even one playoff game together since the Japanese superstar signed with them in 2018.
Ohtani appears all but likely to leave in free agency this winter and Trout might be following him should he request a trade in what's been a miserable season at the Big A all around.
Promising rookies emerged late in the season but the team failed to achieve their true goals of being a playoff contender when everything fell apart by mid-August.
Arte Moreno now stares at potentially losing the best player of this generation and his offseason will have plenty of eyes on him after another dismal campaign.
