Due to a myriad of different factors that included untimely injuries and poor performance from their pitching staff, the Angels yet again found themselves as sellers once baseball’s July 30 trade deadline rolled around in 2021.
The club didn’t have many significant pieces to trade away at this time, but perhaps the biggest move that they did make was sending longtime Angel Andrew Heaney to the Yankees in exchange for a pair of minor-league pitchers. One of those arms, righty Elvis Peguero, was looked at as an interesting flyer due to his high-octane arsenal out of the bullpen, but starter Janson Junk was the one that was considered the real prize of that deal by pretty much everyone.