Trout Phishing
Garrett Richards can’t catch a break. After missing the last three months of the 2014 season with a torn patellar tendon, he’ll now miss the remainder of 2016 for Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow. As important as he was to the Angels rotation and playoff hopes, you could be forgiven for being surprised at the national reaction. FanGraphs, then SBNation, then ESPN all ran stories within hours of the injury tweet-nouncement, declaring this Angels team dead-in-the-water. Not just for this year, mind you, but for the years to come.