"The Angels have produced, acquired, and retained a scandalously low number of useful pitchers during that period, although their similar struggles with position players haven't helped much either."
"The last true impact starting pitcher their system produced was either John Lackey or Chuck Finley, whose last year as an Angel was 1999."
"When the team found 17-year-old Jose Soriano in 2016, there was no great reason for optimism, less because of anything Soriano did well or poorly than because of which organization would be paying him to do it."
"Soriano was lit up for two homers and three runs in five innings by the ultramodest Chicago White Sox, tripling his ERA from 0.24 to 0.84."
The Los Angeles Angels have been criticized for failing to capitalize on having the best players in baseball, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Their inability to develop and acquire effective pitchers has been a major issue. The team has resorted to signing mid-tier free agents and recently focused their entire 2021 draft class on pitchers, indicating a desperate need for improvement. Jose Soriano, a promising pitcher, has also struggled, exemplifying the team's ongoing challenges in nurturing talent on the mound.
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