Angels news: Mike Scioscia shares stance on LA's direction after sale
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Fans of the Los Angeles Angels have to be excited for the franchise’s future after Arte Moreno, owner of the team for 23 years, finalized the sale of the team to Kroenke Sports & Entertainment — owner of proud champion franchises in the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, the English Premier League’s Arsenal, and the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche.
Moreno has certainly overstayed his welcome in the eyes of Angels fans, as the team made a habit of underperforming and overpaying over the hill veterans under his watch. But for former manager Mike Scioscia, who helmed the team to its only World Series title in franchise history back in 2002 (prior to Moreno’s purchase of the franchise), Moreno gets a worse rap than he should have.
“Arte Moreno was a great owner. Arte and Carol did a great job of giving us talent. Some years we did really well. Some years we didn’t meet the expectations,” Scioscia said, per Ernesto Madrigal-Rodriguez, lead play-by-play broadcaster for Cal State San Bernardino.
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Scioscia was the manager for the Angels from 2000 to 2018, and he spent 16 seasons working with the team’s former owner in Moreno. The Angels did remain competitive until the end of the 2000s, but the black eye in Moreno’s legacy as an owner is that he wasn’t able to maximize the years the team had with prime Mike Trout.
It did not help whatsoever that the Angels also had Shohei Ohtani for the first six seasons of his career, and yet they couldn’t even make it to the postseason.
That has become Moreno’s lasting legacy in Anaheim, and fans will never forget the huge contracts he gave to declining veterans in Albert Pujols, Anthony Rendon, and Josh Hamilton, just to name a few.
Nonetheless, Scioscia is looking forward to seeing where the Angels go with the Kroenkes in charge.
“For the sale of the team to go through to such a high sports figure. What he’s done with his other franchises, I think you have to be optimistic about where the Angels are gonna be,” Scioscia added.
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