{"id":321890,"date":"2026-05-18T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321890\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:55:07","slug":"dodgers-sweep-of-angels-showcases-the-organizational-rot-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321890\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ sweep of Angels showcases the ‘organizational rot’ in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s probably for the best that nobody is filming a documentary of the 2026 Los Angeles Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As discussed on the latest episode of \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast,\u201d the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, now 29-18, visited Anaheim over the weekend and swept the Angels, who are now 16-31.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not close at any point,\u201d Jake Mintz said on the podcast.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers outscored the Angels 31-3 across the series, with a shutout in Game 1, a 5-RBI night from Shohei Ohtani<\/a> in Game 2 and Roki Sasaki<\/a>\u2019s best outing of the season in Game 3.<\/p>\n

Notably, as Mintz pointed out, the Angels beat the Dodgers all six times they played last year, but that will not be the case this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And this is nothing new, as the Angels have been a disappointing operation for years.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Play 2026 Soccer Pick ‘Em with FOX One and make your picks for the world’s biggest soccer tournament<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d Jordan Shusterman said.<\/p>\n

To Shusterman, the Angels\u2019 losses captured the discrepancies between the two teams. In Game 1, the Dodgers patched together a shutout using largely anonymous bullpen arms \u2014 and an organizational plan to help them succeed. Meanwhile, the Angels of late have signed players with more name recognition but haven\u2019t been able to help those players take steps forward. And at this point, there isn\u2019t much reason to believe that they ever would.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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?\u201d Shusterman said.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Quoting the movie \u201cMiracle,\u201d Mintz summarized it like this: \u201cYou don\u2019t have enough talent to win on talent alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is true about the Angels,\u201d he said. \u201cFrankly, it is true about most baseball teams. It\u2019s not just about how good your players are. It\u2019s about how you deploy them. It\u2019s about your planning, your strategy. It\u2019s about the players who aren\u2019t on your team yet and the organization\u2019s track record of filling those holes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given all of these problems and an organizational inability to fix them, the outlook for the Angels across the rest of the 2026 season is not good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Angels are not just bad \u2014 they are worse than they have ever been,\u201d Mintz said. \u201c \u2026 And it\u2019s a damn shame that this is the year that Mike Trout<\/a> has turned the clock back.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on the Angels and Major League Baseball, listen to \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast\u201d wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s probably for the best that nobody is filming a documentary of the 2026 Los Angeles Angels. As…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,426,13494,13495,2866,5128,134103,5884,422,17203],"class_list":["post-321890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dodgers","tag-jake-mintz","tag-jordan-shusterman","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-trout","tag-organizational-plan","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-the-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}