Amazing Ohtani can’t lift Angels from 7-year playoff drought
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani just completed arguably the most remarkable single season by any player in the past century of baseball. And not even his two-way brilliance was enough to lift the Los Angeles Angels from their now-customary spot in the bottom half of the American League. The Angels have six straight losing seasons and seven straight nonplayoff seasons. No team in the majors has a longer active losing streak. Only two teams have missed the playoffs in more consecutive seasons than the Halos, who have finished higher than third in the AL West just once since 2014.