It’s most likely for the finest that no one is filming a documentary of the 2026 Los Angeles Angels.
As mentioned on the newest episode of “Baseball Bar-B-Cast,” the Los Angeles Dodgers, now 29-18, visited Anaheim over the weekend and swept the Angels, who are actually 16-31.
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“This was not close at any point,” Jake Mintz stated on the podcast.
The Dodgers outscored the Angels 31-3 throughout the collection, with a shutout in Game 1, a 5-RBI evening from Shohei Ohtani in Game 2 and Roki Sasaki’s finest outing of the season in Game 3.
Notably, as Mintz identified, the Angels beat the Dodgers all six occasions they performed final 12 months, however that won’t be the case this season.
“I think it is a reminder that the Angels are definitively worse than they have been, and it tells me more about them than it does about the Dodgers,” he stated.
And that is nothing new, as the Angels have been a disappointing operation for years.
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“I think when you have organization rot and a losing culture, a lack of depth, a lack of expectations and a lack of cohesion in terms of a plan, a vision, a proof of concept that they can win baseball games, these results are going to pile up,” Jordan Shusterman stated.
To Shusterman, the Angels’ losses captured the discrepancies between the two groups. In Game 1, the Dodgers patched collectively a shutout utilizing largely nameless bullpen arms — and an organizational plan to assist them succeed. Meanwhile, the Angels of late have signed gamers with extra title recognition however haven’t been in a position to assist these gamers take steps ahead. And at this level, there isn’t a lot purpose to imagine that they ever would.
“When you are this bad at so much else below the minor leagues, below the major-league level and just how all of it functions on the field and you put up this much losing over the past decade, why would any of us believe that this is going to work?” Shusterman stated.
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Quoting the film “Miracle,” Mintz summarized it like this: “You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone.”
“That is true about the Angels,” he stated. “Frankly, it is true about most baseball teams. It’s not just about how good your players are. It’s about how you deploy them. It’s about your planning, your strategy. It’s about the players who aren’t on your team yet and the organization’s track record of filling those holes.”
Given all of these issues and an organizational lack of ability to repair them, the outlook for the Angels throughout the relaxation of the 2026 season just isn’t good.
“The Angels are not just bad — they are worse than they have ever been,” Mintz stated. “ … And it’s a damn shame that this is the year that Mike Trout has turned the clock back.”
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