While the Angels’ trade deadline has worked out in terms of the players they acquired, it is clear that Perry Minasian and the front office did not nearly do enough to give this team a fighting chance at the postseason. Nevertheless, Halo fans can still laugh at the disaster trades that their rivals made around the deadline.
Angels fans laughing at these AL West trade deadline disasters
The biggest one here is the Seattle Mariners trading for Eugenio Suárez. Suárez was arguably the best hitter in baseball during the first half of the season, one of the few Diamondbacks who was playing well enough for teams to consider bidding on them at the deadline.