Arte Moreno will go down as one of the worst owners in the history of professional sports. No other owner has been this bad:
• Tyler Skaggs: An Angels employee, supplied drugs to Skaggs and other players, ultimately contributing to Skaggs’ death. The Angels fought the wrongful-death lawsuit for years before settling during jury deliberations, after jurors had found the team negligent.
• Sticky stuff: Angels clubhouse employee was providing pitchers with a sticky substance.
• Angel Stadium deal: The FBI investigation into Anaheim’s mayor exposed that he had secretly provided Angels representatives with confidential negotiating information and expected a $1 million campaign contribution connected to the stadium deal.
• Players’ basic needs: Failed to provide major-league players with basic resources they needed, from Pujols’ treadmill to reportedly not fixing the AC for Kikuchi so he could work out properly before starts.
• Minor-league housing: Angels minor leaguers faced awful housing conditions, with reports of overcrowding, multiple players sharing rooms and players even sleeping on training tables.
• Trout + Ohtani: He had Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani at the same time and still couldn’t build a contender around them an unprecedented opportunity wasted, while the team repeatedly stayed below the luxury-tax threshold instead of going all-in.
• Stadium conditions: Angel Stadium has faced years of maintenance and sanitation problems, including a 2026 rodent infestation that temporarily shut down a concession area.
• Behind on technology: The Angels were reportedly 10–15 years behind other organizations in player-development technology and analytics until they began making major investments more recently.
• Wouldn’t trade Ohtani: Moreno admitted he knew they weren’t resigning Ohtani but refused to trade him.
• “FANS DON’T CARE ABOUT WINNING”
The MLB could have stepped in for many of these instances the fact that he stayed around this long is shameful..
#RepTheHalo #Angels #OutWithArte