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| World Series titles (1) | 2002 | ||||
| AL Pennants (1) | 2002 | ||||
| AL West Division titles (9) | |||||
| Wild card berths (1) | 2002 | ||||
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| Principal owner(s) | Arte Moreno | ||||
| President | John Carpino | ||||
| General manager | Perry Minasian | ||||
| Manager | Ron Washington | ||||
| Website | mlb.com/angels | ||||
The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. Since 1966, the team has played its home games at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.
The franchise was founded in Los Angeles in 1961 by Gene Autry as one of MLB's first two expansion teams and the first to originate in California. Deriving its name from an earlier Los Angeles Angels franchise that played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL), the team was based in Los Angeles until moving to Anaheim in 1966. Due to the move, the franchise was known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996 and the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004. "Los Angeles" was added back to the name in 2005, but because of a lease agreement with Anaheim that required the city to also be in the name, the franchise was known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim until 2015. The current Los Angeles Angels name came into use the following season.
Throughout their first four decades of existence, the Angels were a middling franchise, but did win three division titles and notably hosted the careers of Hall of Fame players Nolan Ryan, Rod Carew, and Reggie Jackson. Under manager Mike Scioscia, they would eventually achieve their first Wild Card spot in 2002, and used this momentum to win the 2002 World Series, their only championship appearance to date. They, along with the Washington Nationals, are the two MLB franchises to win their sole appearance in the World Series. Over the next seven years under Scioscia's management, the Angels would then win five division titles, spearheaded by their lone Hall of Fame representative Vladimir Guerrero. They also saw an increase in fan attendance, consistently placing the franchise among the top draws in MLB. This notoriety has grown into international attention since 2012 with the signing of Albert Pujols and the emergence of superstars Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, who cumulatively have won five AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards with the team; despite this, they have not appeared in the postseason since 2014. They also currently hold the longest active playoff drought of any MLB team at 10 consecutive seasons without a playoff berth.
Through 2024, the Angels have a win–loss record of 5,021–5,115–3 (.495).[3]
- ^ Bollinger, Rhett (February 4, 2023). "Angels partnering with FBM on jersey patch". Angels.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
With Major League Baseball permitting clubs to wear sponsored patches on their jerseys for the first time in 2023, the Angels announced Saturday that they entered a three-year agreement with Foundation Building Materials as their official jersey patch partner. Foundation Building Materials (FBM) is a local company founded in neighboring Orange, Calif., in 2011 and has 280 locations across the United States and Canada, including in every Major League market. Their rectangular logo, which features a Cypress Tree and the FBM initials, shares the same red and blue official colors of the Angels and will be worn on the sleeve of the jersey.
- ^ "Angels Directory" (PDF). 2022 Los Angeles Angels Information Guide (PDF). MLB Advanced Media. May 19, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ^ "Los Angeles Angels Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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