{"id":241406,"date":"2026-03-28T23:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:33:47","slug":"los-angeles-angels-notable-players-anaheim-history-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241406\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels | Notable Players, Anaheim, History, & Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Angels, American professional baseball<\/a> team based in Anaheim<\/a>, California<\/a>, that plays in the American League<\/a> (AL). The Angels won a World Series<\/a> title in 2002, their first appearance in the \u201cFall Classic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Angels began play in 1961 as one of two expansion teams (with the Washington Senators) awarded by Major League Baseball<\/a> that season\u2014baseball\u2019s first additions to either of the two major leagues in 60 years. The Angels were originally based in Los Angeles<\/a> and were owned by \u201cSinging Cowboy\u201d Gene Autry<\/a>. The team was renamed the California Angels in 1965. In 1966, after five seasons in Los Angeles\u2014which included a winning year in just their second season of play\u2014they relocated to nearby Anaheim.<\/p>\n

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Before the 1972 season, the Angels traded six-time All-Star shortstop Jim Fregosi for future Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan<\/a>, who went on to throw four of his record seven career no-hitters in an Angels uniform and contributed to the team\u2019s first playoff berth<\/a> in 1979 (on a team managed by Fregosi). The Angels made the playoffs again in 1982 and 1986, but the team failed to advance to the World Series each season after losing series leads of two games to none and three games to one, respectively. The Angels endured another notable collapse in 1995, squandering a record 111\/2-game divisional lead over the Seattle Mariners<\/a> with six weeks left in the season.<\/p>\n

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In 2002 the team, then known as the Anaheim Angels, won their first playoff series as they advanced to the World Series: led by sluggers Garret Anderson, Tim Salmon, and Troy Glaus, the Angels won a dramatic seven-game series over the San Francisco Giants<\/a> that featured four contests that were decided by one run. With the addition of perennial<\/a> All-Star Vladimir Guerrero<\/a> in 2004, along with the continued development of young pitchers such as Francisco Rodriguez, the Angels became a yearly playoff contender\u2014winning division titles in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009\u2014and one of baseball\u2019s best teams through the end of the first decade of the 21st century, but they did not match the postseason success of the 2002 Angels squad in those seasons. In 2005 the team changed its name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.<\/p>\n

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The Angels made one of the biggest free-agent additions in baseball history prior to the 2012 season when they signed three-time Most Valuable Player Albert Pujols<\/a> to a 10-year contract. Pujols was joined by early-season call-up Mike Trout<\/a>, who went on to produce one of the greatest rookie<\/a> campaigns in baseball history. Despite the added offensive firepower, the Angels failed to qualify for the postseason in 2012. That loaded Angels team broke through in 2014, winning a major-league-best 98 games during the regular season, but the team was surprisingly swept by the Kansas City Royals<\/a> in its AL Division Series. In 2015 the Angels missed out on a second consecutive postseason by one game and fell off to a fourth-place finish the following year. During this time the team also dropped \u201cof Anaheim\u201d from its name. After the 2016 season the Angels entered into an extended period of losing seasons.<\/p>\n

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A source of hope for Angels fans came in 2018 when the team signed the highly coveted<\/a> Japanese player Shohei Ohtani<\/a>. In his first season Ohtani was named AL<\/a> Rookie of the Year, and he quickly proved to be a generational superstar, earning unanimous AL Most Valuable Player honors twice (2021 and 2023) as a member of the Angels. However, despite the presence of Trout and Ohtani, team success continued to elude the Angels. Ohtani left the team in free agency in 2023, and Trout\u2019s production declined amid persistent injuries.<\/p>\n

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