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Working for Angels owner Arte Moreno is a challenge. The infrastructure in place in the organization—spring training facility, analytics, player development, scouting—needs modernizing. That said, GM Perry Minasian’s tenure was so disastrous the Angels could not let him stay behind the wheel of another draft and trade deadline cycle. It’s rare to see a baseball operations point person fired midseason, but this could not have been a surprise given his track record.
