Mike Trout played his first full season in 2012, and little did he know that would be one of three winning seasons he would enjoy over the next 12 years, with just one playoff series - a loss to the Royals in 2014 - to show for it. The Angels are almost certainly not going to have a winning season this year, especially now that Trout is out for several months after knee surgery.
The Angels have put mediocre teams around Trout before, but this year the roster is just flat out awful. The team has been poor at drafting and developing talent, and they traded away what few prospects they had last summer in a vain attempt to make the post-season in Shohei Ohtani’s last season with the club.