The Angels are back where nobody in Anaheim wanted them to be: at the very bottom of MLB’s post-All-Star break power rankings.
Los Angeles entered the 2026 All-Star break tied for the worst record in baseball at 38-59, and the slide has only gotten uglier since. The club is 2-8 in July, and MLB.com’s latest rankings bumped the Angels from No. 29 to No. 30, pushing them into dead last after the break. Colorado, which had occupied the final spot before the pause, slid up and swapped places with them.
There’s plenty of uncertainty swirling around the organization, too. Kurt Suzuki appears unlikely to get a second season as manager in Anaheim, and that wouldn’t exactly qualify as a shock. The Angels also already fired their general manager and installed John Mozeliak as the interim GM, with a path open for him to keep the job permanently as he tries to steady the franchise in Southern California.
The schedule out of the break doesn’t offer much relief. The Angels are set to face the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals before a more encouraging series against the San Francisco Giants.
MLB.com summed up the situation this way: "The Angels may finally have a new direction under interim (??) general manager John Mozeliak.
This goal is to get this, at last, back on the right track. And for Mike Trout to finish out the season healthy,"
That the Angels are struggling is not exactly a surprise given how the offseason played out. They didn’t make major noise in free agency or on the trade market, with the biggest move being the Taylor Ward deal that brought back pitcher Grayson Rodriguez, unless you view the addition of Vaughn Grissom as the larger swing.
Even with the team sinking, there have been a couple of bright spots. Jose Soriano opened the season on a tear before running into trouble, and Mike Trout has looked like his old self again, giving Angels fans at least one reason to stay tuned.
Trout also addressed the trade chatter around him, saying, “The thing is, I have a no-trade clause. So, like, it can happen whenever.
Ultimately, it comes down to what me and my family want. So I just think it's so hilarious when guys keep asking me,"
For now, though, the bigger story is simple: the Angels are in the race to finish as baseball’s worst team, and that’s a race nobody wants to win.
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