Ron Washington, the first-year manager of the Angels, is unfailingly positive. He was hired in part to inject relentless rah-rah into a franchise that hasn't reached the playoffs since 2014. Yet moments after news broke that Mike Trout would need surgery to repair a torn meniscus four days after Anthony Rendon revealed he has a "high-grade partial tear" in his left hamstring four months after Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers rather than return to the Angels Washington's enthusiasm was... Read this story
