How Arte Moreno’s meddling, myopia and penny-pinching doomed the Angels for a decade

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Moreno let the rest of the organization rot. For several years in the 2010s, the team lacked an indoor weight room at Temple Diablo Stadium, so players pumped iron in the parking lot. As baseball operations departments around the sport sprawled, with teams pouring dollars into research and experimentation, Moreno skimped on analysts, scouts and performance scientists.

It’s unbelievable how badly the Angels were run under Moreno. Just truly shocking.