Los Angeles Angels (English: Los Angeles Angels), is one of the baseball teams affiliated with American League . The home court is located in Annahan, Orange County, California (which belongs to ", the Los Angeles area " and is also the location of Disneyland). Among the American League partitions, it belongs to the American League West Side.
Team History
Prelude: The American League enters City of Angels
The American League has discussed many times before the Angels were established. For example, in 1940 AD, the owner of the St. Louis Browns once asked whether the operators of other teams in the American League could move the team to Los Angeles, but was rejected in the end. St. Louis Browns did not give up. The next year they proposed the same plan again, hoping to move their home court to Los Angeles in 1942. They even set a schedule with Los Angeles as the home court, and this time they also received the consent of various American League teams.
- However, there were unexpected situations. In 1941, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor , which caused all professional sports on the West Coast of the United States to be suspended. In 1953, after the war, the AFC originally planned to move the St. Louis Browns to Los Angeles during the 1954 season. This time, the Browns' boss sold the team. The Browns were moved to Baltimore and renamed it Orioles. Then, the Los Angeles City Government talked with the then Washington Senators about moving plans, and it was also rumored that Philadelphia athletes moved to Kansas City in 1955, in fact, they were just a relay station for them to move to Los Angeles City .
- The ending of being dragged again and again is that the National Alliance is the first to be adopted. The Brooklyn Dodgers from New York became the first major league team to enter Los Angeles. Dodgers boss Walter O'Malley bought the Los Angeles Angels, who was then affiliated with the Pacific Coast League, from Chicago Bears boss Phil Wrigley in 1957. Under the agreement at the time, Omali had the right to operate a major league team in the Los Angeles area. The next year, he moved the Dodgers from the East Coast to Los Angeles in accordance with this rule.
In the environment at that time, the American League might have given up the market in Los Angeles. But in order to prevent the Continental League, which is being planned, from becoming a competitor, the two leagues decided to expand the number of teams in the two leagues in 1960 and add a new team to the United Nations League. Although the agreement between the two leagues was to add new teams in cities without any major leagues, the agreement was quickly broken, and the National League placed their newly established tenth team in New York, called New York Mets . The American League is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and they quickly decided to put the expanded team in Los Angeles and officially joined the American League since 1961.
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The founder of the team
A movie star who became famous all over the United States as a Cowboy, and also a legendary figure named Gene Autry, a country music singer and TV broadcasting group owner, also participated in the major league expansion conference held in St. Louis in 1960. The purpose of this trip is to mark the game broadcast rights of the Los Angeles expanded team. Originally, the partner of major league Hall of Fame players Hank Greenberg and Bill Veeck seemed to be the most promising to become the boss of the new team, but O'Malley did not want to compete with Vick in the Los Angeles market and was afraid to see his oligarchy in the Southern California area being broken, so he rejected the combination of Glenberg and Vick.
The other two groups of competitors were insurance operators from Chicago and later the owner of the Oakland athletes , but they all failed. Finally, the American League lobbyed Otrei to join the bid. In fact, Otrei originally had a small number of shares in the Hollywood Stars, which was part of the Pacific Coast League. This team used to be the arch-rival of the Old Los Angeles Angels. Ottori finally agreed to the invitation from the American League and bought the newly formed team.
The origin of the team name
Odue named it for the new team after the angel. In fact, this name has been used by local baseball teams in Los Angeles since 1892, and was the Los Angeles Angels, which belonged to the California League (California League).
and the Angels in English translated into Spanish becomes Los Angeles, so it is natural to use angels as the team name. The Los Angeles professional baseball team that also uses Angels also has the Los Angeles Angels, which has been based in Los Angeles since 1903. This team belongs to the Pacific Coast League and has maintained excellent results for a long time. Although O'Malley moved the Pacific Coast League Angels to , Washington state, Spokane, to make the Dodgers dominate, he still has the Angels naming rights. So Autrip bought the name for $300,000.
Sixties: At the beginning of the American League
Displaced
Most of the time, the Angels are teams that are fighting hard under powerful enemies, both on the court and on the market. However, they still have their own masterpieces. For example, in the first season of 1961, the Angels became the expansion team with the highest winning rate in history with 70 wins and 91 losses, with a winning rate of 40% and 5% and no one can break it yet. And they won nine more games than the Washington Senators (now the Texas Rangers) that were founded during the same period, and nine more games than the veteran Kansas City Athlete team.
- The first American Angels were a veritable miscellaneous army. Their most popular star was Steve Bilko, the big first baseman who has been the Angels to watch cricket stars since the PCL era. Another star player who is popular among fans is a pocket-sized midfielder, Albie Pearson, a midfielder born and raised in El Monte. The Angels' first season in South Los Angeles ended in a bad situation.
- In 1962, after the Angels and Oumari reached an agreement, they moved their home court to Dodger Stadium, commonly known as Chavis Valley Stadium. The Angels of that year were surprisingly strong contenders for most regular seasons in the United States League championships, and on July 4 they were once ranked first in the United States. Unfortunately, by the end of the season, they only won the third place, and they were behind the , which won the 27th-degree title. On May 5, 1962, Bo Belinsky, a well-known pitcher in the Dodgers Stadium against the Orioles, scored his first no-hit game in the history of the team, leading the team to win five to zero. (Although Belinsky grew up in the Judaism family, he later became a rebaptized Christian and consultant, and became his registered trademark with his often career advice to lost people)
- 964, the Angel once again won the fifth place in the division, but the starter Dean Chance won the first AFC Young Award in the history of the team. At the same time, the Angels' call for a new home court is getting higher and higher. Public opinion believes that if the Angels always rely on others, they will never develop their own fan base. In addition, O'Malley intends to increase the price of the rental and other support by about 50%, even if Angels had a slightly more audience than half of the Dodgers at the time.
Rooting and thriving
In order to get out of the dilemma of living under others, Ottuyre looked for a suitable place to build the home court of the angel. His initial choice was the vacant land provided by the municipal government of Long Beach. However, the condition of Long Beach City was that the angel must be renamed as the angel. Ottuyre could not accept this condition and declared a breakthrough.
- Later he reached a consensus on cooperation with Anaheim, a satellite city in Orange County, so the new Angel home stadium, called Anaham Stadium (which was later often nicknamed Big-A by Southern California residents), began construction. The Angels moved to their new stadium in 1966. On October 2, 1965, the Angels officially made a major decision. Before moving to the new home court, they changed the front of the team from Los Angeles to the entire California , so the official name of the team became the California Angels. In major league history, Angels are the second team after the Minnesota Twins to base a whole state. However, California had three major league teams at that time, but only Angels were in the American League. (Although the Athletics moved from Kansas to Oakland in 1968, the Angels did not change the name of the base until 1996.)
- 967 was the Angels' second season in Anaham, which was the year the Angels joined the competition for the American League Championship Pennant, with rivals including the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Minnesota Twins, and the Boston Red Sox, which is the most champion. This time, the Angels were in a state of weakness until late August, but they still played a competent mischievous gangster at the end of the season. They defeated the Detroit Tigers away in the last game, and helped the Red Sox as the 21-year-old American League championship.
- 970 season, Angels won the third place in the Western Conference of the United Nations, while Alex Johnson won the title of the United Nations Strike King, which is also the only Strike King in the history of the Angels. Other Angels players worth mentioning during this period include pitcher Ken McBride, shortstop Jim Fregosi, outfielders Albie Pearson and Leon Wagner, and catcher Buck Rodgers. Later, Fogsey and Rogers both served as the chief coach of the angels.
70s: Nolan Ryan's rise and his first playoffs
Express Ryan
In the entire 1970s, Angel fans often endured the unsatisfactory team record, but they also enjoyed the joy of victory brought to them by the great speedball king Nolan Ryan , four no hits, and a truck of pitchers' strikeout record, such as the 383 strikeout in a single season in 1973, which no one can break so far. Ryan was traded by the Angels using Fogsey to the Mets. At that time, Ryan was just a relay pitcher in the Mets who were crowned in 1969.
Ryan's amazing ball speed won him the nickname " Express Ryan " (Ryan Express), which originated from the 1965 movie " Escape " starring Frank Sinatra. At that time, Ryan and another pitcher on the team, Frank Tanana, were amazingly powerful, so the fans quipped: "Tanana, Ryan and Two Days of Cryin" (Tangana and Ryan, the opponent cried for two consecutive days). This sentence is actually adapted from the rumor that fans praised Warren Span and Johnny Sain for two strong shots from the Boston Braves in 1940: "Spahn, Sain and Two Days of Rain" (Spahn and Sain made the opponent's heart rain for two consecutive days).
Ironically, the Angels' 1970s ended with making Ryan become a free agent.This decision came from Buzzie Bavasi, the general manager of the team at that time. Bavasi believed that Ryan's 16 wins and 14 losses in the 1979 season could actually be replaced by two 8 wins and 7 losses. Ryan's score during his tenure as Angel General Manager was 26 wins and 27 losses.
debuted for the playoffs
- angle In 1979, after 18 years of joining the army, he finally won the throne of the American League West District under the leadership of the New York Mets' former shortstop Fogsey, leading the team, and entered the first playoffs in team history. The Angels' strong attack on Don Baylor in the team that year became the first designated strike (DH) in the history of the American League to win the most valuable player MVP.
- other players in this team who are successful in protecting are mostly fielders, including Bert Campaneris, Rod Carew, Dan Ford, and Bobby Grich. However, the Angels unfortunately lost to the Baltimore Orioles led by Earl Weaver in the five-game three-winning AFC championship game. The victory in that game was the third game of the series. The Angels scored two points in the second half of the ninth inning and reversed the Orioles 4:3.
80s: Ten years of defeat
Guests
979 was the last time the Angels were in the "old" Big-A season. After the season of that year, the Los Angeles Rams agreed to move to Anahan and expand their home seats to as many as 65,000. To welcome this guest, Angel Stadium was completely renovated and the stands were added to three floors. However, throughout the 1980s, the Angels suffered from excessive home capacity, just like many other teams that use multi-functional home courts.
One game is a long way to
Angels almost made it to the World Championship in the 1982 playoffs. This year, the Angels played in the lineup. Reggie Jackson, the superstar who had been with the New York Yankees and the Oakland Athletics team, and most of the team that won the championship in the American League in 1979 was still in the team.
After winning the American League West Division championship, Angel won two victories in the AM League championship series with the Eastern Conference champion Milwaki Brewers, but then lost three consecutive games and lost the first American League championship in team history. Steve Bisheff's Tales from the Angels Dugout wrote: "No team has ever been able to reverse the 0-2 disadvantage in a five-game three-win game. Of course, no team has ever had such embarrassment like the Angels." (A team with home advantage at that time first played two away games before going home to play the remaining three games. This way of game arrangement was not changed to what it is now after the 1984 season. In the next few years, things like the Angels or even worse than the Angels continued to happen to other teams.)
One goal away
In 1986, the Angels made a comeback and entered the American League Championship Series. Baylor left the Angels in this season, but there were two new forces in the Angels: Wally Joyner, who won the second place in the 1986 season, and pitcher Chuck Finley. The American League West Champion team is still led by veteran coach Gene Mauch, just like in 1982.
- angle met Boston Redsox in the UEFA Champions League. In the seven-game four-win series, Angels won the lead 3-1 draw, and also led the way in the fifth game, 5:2 into the second half of the ninth game. They were soon eliminated. The Angels only got one more out and entered the World Championship as they wished. In this game, Mike Witt, who once threw a complete game, was knocked out just one two-point home run. Gary Lucas, who took over, made the first shot against Red Gedman, was a touch ball, forcing the Angels to send the terminator Donny Moore to the rescue. At this time, the ratio of the place had been chased by the Red Sox to 5:4.
- Moore missed two chances to end the game. With two good and two bad balls out, Red Sox hitter Dave Henderson knocked a two-point home run, and the score turned 6:5. Although the Angels equalized the second half of the nine games, after extending to the eleventh game, they still lost 6:7 and lost all the following two games, losing tickets to the 1986 World Championship.
Aftermath ripples
This game made Angel fans vent their dissatisfaction on Moore, and the saddest thing is Moore himself. This ball made it difficult for Moore to sleep every night before he later chose to raise his gun to commit suicide. He said he could not get rid of that miserable moment at all.
This is the most famous tragedy in the history of the Angels. Various rumors about the curse of the Angels spread wildly. There was also a murder case where the highly praised newcomer Lyman Bostock was shot and killed while visiting a friend in Indiana in 1978. After 1986, the Angels had 16 years to make it to the playoffs. During this period, the athletes easily dominated the American League West Division under the leadership of Jose Kenseko and "the world's No. 1 Bad" Ricky Handerson in 1989, and won the World Championship under the shadow of the San Francisco earthquake.
90s: Old wine in new bottles
1995 crash
Most of the time in the 1990s, angels were around below 50% of the winning rate. , who founded the Angels with one hand, was already a twilight man at this time, and most of the team's decisions came from Jackie Autry, his wife, who was twenty years younger than Otto, and a small part came from Disney, which held a small amount of stocks.
In 1995, Angels suffered the biggest and most embarrassing collapse in team history. was ahead of August, but at this time the Angels lost their soul figure, shortstop Gary DiSarcina, and was finally caught up by the Seattle Mariners in the same district, and tied with the Mariners on the last day of the season, with an extra game to decide who the American League West Champion. , led by head coach Lou Pinella and star pitcher Randy Johnson, defeated the Angels 9-1 in the extra game and won their first division title.
The curse of the cowboy?
Angels have long lost in critical moments of championship competition, such as the 1982 and 1986 AFC Champions League, the 1995 AFC West Division AFC, and the tragedy of Postuck in 1978 and Moore's suicide later, which makes people feel that the angel seems to be "cursed".
Although it seems that those bad things do not really start with a single reason, and it is impossible to see that the "God of Baseball" has extended a mysterious hand to anyone, there are still many people who vividly circulate this curse and the image of the angel boss Ottoy. However, this rumor did not last long. Firstly, the public image that Otre has long established has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Moreover, after the Otre family sold the team, the Angels finally won the playoffs.
However, in some places, there is another version of the curse of the Angels. Before the Angels won the first World Series championship in 2002, some people believed that the reason why the Angels were unable to succeed was because their home court, Big-A, was deliberately chosen to be built on the Indian cemetery (a claim that even local historians in Annahan could not confirm or deny).
"It's so annoying. Every time it's spring training, people start to say something that has nothing. One day we stand on the lawn of the field, and then listen to people lively talking about the cursed things about the stadium, because under the stadium is the Indian cemetery. I think we should find a great wizard who can exorcism or a Christian priest to suppress evil. I mean, I don't want to stand on the cemetery of the Indians!" --Ban Webber, former angel pitcher, published in 2002.
Disney effect
Although Wald Disney Company did not officially control the Angels' operating rights before 1999, it can occasionally make some actions that have an impact on the team. After Ottoy passed away in 1998, their influence has increased day by day. In fact, Disney dominated the Angels after 1996, when they hired Tony Tavares as the team's president. Although Tavarez finally resigned, he appointed Bill Stoneman to take over the general manager of the team during his tenure. Under Stoneman's planning, the Angel won the trophy of the first world championship in team history.
Of course, Disney is one of the important catalysts for economic development and population growth in Orange County, especially in 1955 they opened the first Disneyland in Anaham.
Walter Disney accepted Ottori's invitation to join the Angels' board of directors in 1960 until his death in 1966. Wald Disney is also one of the drivers behind the Angels’ migration to Orange County. Disney-owned film company also produced a film set in the Angels in 1994: Angels in the Outfield.
The stadium became smaller
- After the big crash in 1995, the National Football League Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis and became the St. Louis Rams, and the reason why the Rams left Anaham was that the stadium was getting worse and worse. The management of the Angels also believes that the stadium has been disrepair, suggesting that the team may leave Southern California because of this.
- In 1997, the Angels and the Annahan Municipal Government negotiated the renovation of Angels Stadium, and concluded that Angels must reduce the number of audience seats and redefined it as a baseball-only venue, and the Angels must give up the right to naming the stadium in exchange for official support. The name of the new stadium must contain the characteristics of Anahan, so Anahan Stadium was renamed "Anahan's Edison International Stadium", which is abbreviated as "Edison Stadium" most of the time, and sports anchors usually call this renovated stadium "Big-Ed". However, some anchors, especially Pete Arbogast from KMPC in California, are still used to referring to old names.
Team name has become shorter
Another agreement related to stadium renovation is that the team name must include Anahan. At that time, Disney's management was starting to renovate the old Disneyland. Disney hoped to position the Anahan market as a complete entertainment city, just like they were at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Therefore, the territorial name of the Angels has been changed again, and this time it became Anaheim Angels. However, some fans opposed changing their territory to Anahan. The reason they held was that Anahan was underrepresented, but these protests ended in failure.
In fact, during the thirty-one years when the Angels took the entire California as their base, they never directly wrote California-related words on their home uniforms. Only in a few seasons, the team's logo has a map of California. Since the California Angels had no way to achieve the goal of eating the entire California market, the top leaders of the Angels changed their course and changed their marketing target to Orange County, creating the Angels team as Orange County team. Therefore, the name change case in 1997 is equivalent to directly denying the marketing strategy formulated in 1966.
The uniform of the Angels also changed in 1997. The words A-N-G-E-L-S that fans were familiar with were replaced by the pattern designed by Disney Studios, leaving only the A-shaped character at the beginning and two enlarged angel wings on the striped uniform. The uniform became a cosmic laughing stock, and ESPN's Chris Berman said it was like only beer-bellied slow softball league players would wear.Many angel fans even described this uniform as ridiculous as "the shell of a corn snail".
New Century: New Bottle New Wine
World Championship
Main Entry: 2002 World Championship, 2002 Major League Baseball American League Championship Series and 2002 Major League Baseball American League Division Series
- Time came to 2002, the Angels took off the inexplicable striped uniform and replaced it with a new uniform similar to before, but this time the uniform turned into red as the main axis and matched with some navy blue. It is obvious that the Angels' away uniform is embroidered with Anaham, which is the first time the Angels declared their territory on their uniforms in 1965.
- Before the 2002 season, most commentators believed that the Angels would finish in the American League West, which had only four teams. At this time, the Angels' head coach had already replaced Mike Soxia, who was once the Dodgers' star catcher, and Soxia actually led the Angels to win the wild card qualification for the AFC playoffs with a record of 99 wins after the opening of the season with 6 wins and 14 losses. In the AFC Division Series, the Angels beat the New York Yankees 3-1, and then defeated the Minnesota Twins 4-1 to win the first American League championship trophy in team history.
- 002 World Championship, the Angels met the San Francisco Giants , which was dominated by super cannon Berry Bonds. This series has also become the most fierce world competition in history. The Giants won 4:3 in Game 1 of the World Series, but the Angels then won two or three games 11:10 and 10:4. The Giants both made excellent shots in the fourth and fifth games, winning 4:3 and 16:4 respectively. The key to the entire series is Game 6. Many people think this may be the most amazing game in the history of the World Series. The Angels fell behind 0:5 and had only eight outs left to hand over the throne. Under the extreme disadvantage, they scored three points in seven or eight innings and won 6:5. This is also the largest playoff reversal in the history of the Angels. In the end, the Angels used their lives to win 4:1 in the seventh game, and worked hard to win the first World Championship championship in 42 years.
Angel third baseman Troy Glaus won the MVP of the World Series with excellent long-range firepower. At the time, the rookie rescue pitcher Francesco Rodriquez won five wins throughout the playoffs, tying the record, and he had never won any major league game before. Angels Another young starter John Recky became the first rookie to win Game 7 in ninety-three years.
Reversal of Monkey
Main entry: Reversal of Monkey
Angels created an unofficial mascot during the 2001 season: Reversal of Monkey (Rally Monkey). The origin of it all was the little joke the staff at Angel Stadium played when they were playing a game that was 3-6 behind to the Giants. They took advantage of the gap when they changed pitchers and played a clip from the movie "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" on the big screen on the court. A monkey jumped up and down on the screen, and the staff typed a line of subtitles: Rally Monkey. The Angels finally won that game, which also opened up a legend of crazy reversal, especially the 6th game of the 2002 World Series.
New boss
On May 15, 2003, Disney, with poor financial conditions, sold the Angels' operating rights to an advertising giant from Phoenix City . The transaction made Angels the first American professional team controlled by Hispanic bosses, and also represents a signal that Disney Company has begun to retreat from the field of professional sports. Disney Company sold the operating rights of its other professional team, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, two years later.
Stadium was renamed again
Angels' home court was renamed again in 2003 after seven years of operation as Anaham Edison International Stadium. The new name is Anagan Angel Stadium , usually referred to as Angel Stadium for short. But likewise, its earliest name, Anaham Stadium, is still used by many locals in many places. According to the current Angels' senior management, the name of the stadium will not change in a short period of time. However, in recent years, the Annahan Municipal Government has often deliberately ignored the words of Annahan and felt a little uncomfortable.
The team has also changed its name again
Main article: Anaham Municipal Government v. Angels Group
On January 3, 2005, Angels Baseball Co., Ltd. (L. P.), which holds the management rights of the Angels, announced that the team's name will be renamed from Anaheim Angels to Los Angeles Angels. According to the 2005 Angels media guide, it was mentioned:
"The Angels were founded as their territory, and this move helped to make the world understand that the Angels are the representative team of the American League in the Greater Los Angeles area."
This move by the Angels business class angered the Annahan Municipal Government, who did not accept the Angels' explanation and filed a lawsuit for breach of contract. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Dodgers do not agree with the Angels' approach, mainly because they are afraid that the Angels will return to the market for fans in Los Angeles. On February 9, 2006, the court ruled that the Angels would win and could continue to use the new team name.
Angels, who escaped from the lawsuit, have since attacked the Los Angeles market with great fanfare. They have placed about 500 advertisements in Los Angeles with the logo of the Angels and the words "City of ANGELS". The Dodgers are not to be outdone, and they also use a lot of kanban counters, emphasizing that the Dodgers are the orthodox representatives of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles), and they also promoted this slogan in a particularly vocal way at the start of the 2005 season.
After the Dodgers officially confirmed that the Angels' territory had been officially changed to Los Angeles, they continued to use the Annahan Angels to call their neighbors during the highway war. The abbreviation for the Angels on the Dodger Stadium scoreboard is still the ANA that represents ANA, not the LAA that represents Los Angeles. Other major league teams have become good at it and are looking at Angels as representative teams in Los Angeles.
The Angels' approach to changing their territories has caused some Orange County fans to feel very frustrated. These fans think that Orange County and Los Angeles County are different places and there is no direct relationship between the two. It is generally believed that there are many fundamental differences between Orange County and Los Angeles County, including economic (Orange County concentrates emerging high-tech industries, while Los Angeles County includes financial services, industry, transportation and logistics industries, and leisure and entertainment industries), social (Orange County is generally home to white and Asian middle-class families, while Los Angeles County has a relatively diverse and complex population composition), and even politically (Orange County has always been a Republican vote, while Los Angeles County is the base camp of the Democratic Party). So some fans once suggested that Moreno, the angel boss from Arizona, should not be allowed to get into this muddy water. During the renaming storm, some Angels' propaganda boards were destroyed by fans who opposed the renaming.
Since the end of the offensive and defensive battle in the court, the organized protests among fans have gradually subsided.
Later, after negotiation, the name of the team login in the major league was changed to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, which lasted until 2016. The official of the major leagues also officially simplified the Angels' team name to the current Los Angeles Angels, and no longer used Anaheim.
Achievements in recent years
004 season, Vladimir Guerrero, who was hired by Angels from the free agent market, won the fourth American League West Division championship in team history with him and was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the American League of America of the year. The Angels performed a very amazing reversal before the end of the season, and defeated the Auckland Athletics team, who had been ahead of the season for half a season, and was defeated in the penultimate game of the regular season and won the title. Then the Angels were swept 3-0 by Boston Red Sox in the playoffs this year. The Red Sox also exuded the resentment of failing to win the World Championship for 86 years and was crowned the king in a terrifying wave.
005 season, the Angels were the first team in the American League to win the division championship, and there were five games left before the end of the season. In the first round of the playoffs, the Angels beat the New York Yankees 3-2, but unfortunately they lost 1-4 to the strong world champion team in the AFC Championship Series, Chicago White Sox. This year, the Angels' ace pitcher Bartolo Colón won the American League Cy Young Award with a record of 21 wins and 8 losses. This is the second player in team history to win this honor, forty-one years since Chance won the last time he won the award.
006 Angels failed to continue their dominance in the American League West Side and ended their defending journey from 2004. Although the ending was frustrating, the Angels still made three of the best consecutive seasons in team history. Angels boss Moreno also swore that the Angels' lineup will undergo major changes after confirming that he missed the playoffs. It is generally believed that the Angels' possible trade targets include Carlos Lee, Miguel Tejada, Aramis Ramírez, and even recognized as one of the best players in the contemporary era, the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has become possible trading targets. (Page archive backup, saved in the Internet Archives) Although the Angels failed to make the fall classic in October in 2006, they also achieved many personal achievements.
Angel Terminator "K-Rod" Rodriquez set a team record with 47 rescues, and he became the youngest pitcher in history to achieve 100 rescues. Angels' ace relay pitcher Scot Shields leads the American League with 31 relay points and also ranks second in the AFC with 87.2 innings. Fast-legged Sean Figgins ranked second in the American League with 52 steals. Super rookie Jered Weaver tied Whitey Ford's record of winning streak for the first time in the American League with nine consecutive wins.
2009
009 Angels did not perform well at the beginning of the season, and were once the last in the division. Later, after a good record, they finally successfully won the American League West Division championship. The opponent that Angels will encounter in the first round of the playoffs is the Red Sox, which they have encountered for three consecutive years. The Angels were eliminated by the Red Sox in the first two years, but this year is completely different. In the first match, Angels starter was played by John Recky and Jon Lester of the Red Sox. Recky lost 0 points in 7 innings and finally won 5-0.
, and the starting pitcher in the second game faced Jerry Wiver against Jarsh Beckett who performed well in the playoffs, but Beckett's situation in the past two years has not been ideal, and he has no ability to suppress his opponents in the past. In the end, the Angels successfully won 4:1 and took 2 wins and 0 losses to Fenway Stadium to compete in the third game. With no way to retreat, the Red Sox started at home with Clay Bookholz, and no Matsusaka Daisuke started. Originally, the Red Sox led 6:4 after the end of the 8th innings, while the finisher Jonathan Paiberbon, who had not yet lost points in the playoffs, made the 9th inning, but unexpectedly, after being eliminated from 2, the Angels hit a hit one after another, and finally scored 3 points in a row to reverse the situation, successfully eliminating the Red Sox 3:0. This is also the first time that the Angels eliminated the Red Sox in the playoffs and successfully flew into the AP League Championship.
The opponent that the Angels will encounter in the FA Championship is the first seed of the New York Yankees. In the past, Angels successfully eliminated the Yankees in the playoffs. It is generally believed that the Angels have the chance to fly into the World Championship, but in the first game, the Angels made several key mistakes, plus C.C. Sabasia's excellent pitching (lost 1 point in 8 games), and finally lost the 1st game. The second game is very important for the Angels, hoping to tie the 1:1 draw and return to their home game.
second game double scored at the end of 9 innings and tied a 0:0 draw. After that, the Angels scored 1 point from Yankees rescue pitcher Alfredo Arthurves in the playoffs, and sent the terminator Brian Ferentes in the next half of the innings, but faced the first hitter Alice Rodriquez and was hit to tie the score, and the rescue failed. In the end, the team made a goodbye mistake and lost the second game. In the three games back to his home court, the Angels won 2 wins and 1 defeat, and were able to continue to bring the game to New York to continue the 6th game of the 6th game, but the starting pitcher Joe Sanders performed poorly and finally lost the game 2:5, allowing the Yankees to win the AFC championship, which was also the first time they were eliminated by the Yankees in the playoffs. The biggest problem with Angels in the AFC Champions League is that they make too many mistakes and all cause damage, so they cannot enter the World Championship.
2014: The division champion
entered the 2014 Angels, swept three times in the opening match against the Seattle Mariners, creating the worst home opening series in the past five years.
- On April 22, first baseman Albert Pujos scored the 500th Bang in his career and became the second in the team history. Due to injuries caused by the same-district opponent Texas Rangers at the beginning of the season, the Angels have been firmly occupying the second place in the Western Conference since May, and after defeating the Boston Red Sox 4:2 away on August 18, they squeezed down the Oakland athletes in the Western Conference rankings.
- On August 31, the Angel defeated the athlete 8:1 at home and swept the series with all four games, widening the difference between the athletes to 5 games.
- On September 17, the Angels, who have been confirmed to enter the playoffs, finished the Mariners 5:0 at home, and relied on the Rangers to defeat the athletes, regaining the division championship that had lost 5 years.
- However, in ALDS, due to its sluggish core line-up, it was swept out by Kansas City Royals, who had not entered the playoffs for 29 years.
2018: The Wizards arrived and actively strengthened
After the end of the 2017 season, Shohei Otani challenged the major league through the entry system, which triggered various powerful teams to grab people. However, the second-knife Wizard first deleted the US East option and finally confirmed the arrival of the Angel on December 9. In addition to Otani, Angels signed Justin Upton (5-year $106 million) and Redman Shortstop Zack Cozart (3-year contract $38 million), and used two farm rookies (Troy Montgomery and Wilkel Hernandez) as bargaining chips to win Tiger star second baseman Ian Kinsler, adding the last puzzle of the starting lineup. After the season started, with the help of Shohei Otani, the angel seemed to have transformed into a six-winged seraphic angel, once left the defending Astros behind. However, after Shohei Otani was hit by the first home run in the first round of the Red Sox, the Angel began to fall to the mortal world, and then found that his elbow had a tricky injury, which made the Angel's battle situation worse. Even the wild card gradually drifted away. He could only send Martín Maldonado, who was in the contract year, and Ian Kinsler, who had just signed in, to the Astronauts and Red Soxes to exchange rookies in the mid-season.
Although Shohei Otani returned as a hitter first, he successfully returned as a pitcher in September, and was still unable to change the fate of the angel being eliminated. After defeating the Athlete in the final match of the routine, Mike Scioscia officially announced that she would no longer serve as Angels head coach in the 2019 season, confirming that she had ended her 19-year job with Angels.
2019
Angels team just officially announced that it will hire former Tigers head coach Brad Ausmus as the head coach next year. In the end, it would be fine if the pitchers lineup was not complete. In addition, Skegus first and then two days later, he was found dead in a hotel room in Nanhu, Texas, at the age of 27. Later, after performing an autopsy on Skeggs, he found that he died suddenly due to overdose of drugs. In addition, Shohei Otani performed left knee surgery and "trout" Mike Trout's right foot was reimbursed for the whole quarter. He was confirmed to miss the playoffs for five consecutive years. The Angels team officially announced that he would fire head coach Brad Ausmus.
2020
On October 17, 2019, Joe Maiden confirmed to return to Angel with a 3-year 12 million contract. Although the Astronauts lost 4-5 to the Rangers in the playoffs today, the Angels could extend the front line as long as they win, but the pitchers could not withstand Dodge's fierce attack and eventually lost 5-9. The Angels' defeat not only ruined the slim playoff hopes, but also missed the playoffs for six consecutive years. The star Mike Trout has not even enjoyed the taste of winning the playoffs in his 10-year career in the major league.
2021
On September 28, 2020, Angels decided to fire general manager Billy Eppler (Billy Eppler). On November 17, 2020, the Angels hired the Warriors assistant general manager Perry Minasian to replace the fired general manager Billy Eppler (Billy). Eppler)
Concise version team information
Founded year : 961 (American League expansion)
used team name :
- Los Angeles Angels Team (1961 to September 1, 1965)
- California Angels (2, 1965 to November 18, 1996)
- Anagan Angels (1996 to January 2, 2004)
- Los Angels Anagan Angels (1996 to January 2, 2004)
- Los Angeles Anagan Angels (2005 to 2015)
Main city : Orange County Anahant
Home game : Anahant Angel Stadium
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- Annahan Stadium (1966-1997)
- Edison Stadium (1997-December 9, 2003)
Used home stadium :
- Chavez Valley/Docket Stadium (Chavez) Ravine/Dodgers Stadium)
- Legley Field
Uniform color : Red, dark red, navy blue, silver
Ball owner : Yati Moreno (Arte Moreno)
11 11 12 1: Bill Stoneman (Bill Stoneman)
Head coach : Vacant
Venice : Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers
Playoffs : (9 times). 1979, 1982, 1986, 2002, 2004-2005, 2007-2009
1 Division Champion : (8 times). 1979, 1982, 1986, 2004-2005, 2007-2009, 2014
11 Wild card qualification : (1 time). 2002
league champion : (1 time). 2002
1 World Championship champion : (1 time).2002
Regional broadcasting unit : Fox Sports Network West Coast Station (FSN West), FSN Prime Ticket, KCOP (MyNetworkTV), KTTV (FOX), AM 830 KLAA
Spring Training Base : Arizona Tianpu Devil Stadium.
Baseball Hall of Fame Players
Angels' Hall of Fame Players
Vladimir Greno
Below are the Hall of Fame Players who have been with Angels in their careers
- Rod Karu (1979-1985) Minnesota Twins
- Reggie Jackson (1982-1986) New York Yankees
- Eddie Murray (1997) Baltimore Orioles
- Frank Robinson (1973-1974) Baltimore Orioles
- Nolan Ryan* (1972-1979) Texas Rangers
- Don Sutton (1985-1987) Los Angeles Dodge
- Hoyt Wilhelm (1969) New York Giant
- Dave Winfield (1990-1991) San Diego Priest
* My career in Angels is longer than other teams
Retirement jersey back
9 Rod Karu coach 1992-99 |
pitcher 1972-79
1992.06.16
2 Jackie Robinson
Retirement commemoration of each team
1995.08.02
50 Jimmie Reese
Coach 1972-94
1997.04.15
Affiliated minor league teams
- AAA:Salt Lake Bees, affiliated to the Pacific Coast League (Pacific Coast) League)
- AA:Arkansas Travelers, affiliated to the Texas League (Texas League)
- A:Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino, affiliated to the California League (California) League)
- A: Artellinaceae Rapids Kernels, affiliated to the Midwest League (Midwest League)
- Rookies : European Owlz, affiliated to the Pioneer League (Pioneer League)
- Rookies : Arizona Angels, affiliated to the Arizona League (Arizona League)
- Rookies : Dominican Angels, affiliated to the Dominican Summer League (DSL-Angels)
