This past two off-seasons since Eppler has taken over, he has had the unenviable task of trying to retool the LA Angels roster while not being given much of a budget to work with. The reason for this is that the previous regime of Jerry DiPoto and Tony Reagins squande
e the 2011 season. Wells was owed close to 90 million dollars over the next four season of which he only spent two of those four seasons in Anaheim, neither of which were very good.
DiPoto then got into the act after taking over for Reagins in 2012 by signing C.