Amidst Current Hot Streak, Los Angeles Angels Have Proven to Be AL’s Most Dangerous Team

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Since they’ve led the American League from the beginning of the season, it would be easy for most fans to call the Kansas City Royals the most dangerous team in the Junior Circuit. However, the Los Angeles Angels, who are baseball’s hottest team, deserve that title.

The team has won 15 of its last 17 games and has done so in dramatic fashion. Many of those wins have come in the late innings, with the first win of the second half coming via a Mike Trout walk-off home run.

Los Angeles’ lineup has been flat-out mashing lately, scoring 4.9 runs per game during their hot 17-game stretch. You’re not going to lose many games scoring almost five runs every time out.

With that being said, the Halos could use another starting pitcher, even with Hector Santiago having a breakout season, and Garrett Richards and Andrew Heaney looking like the one-two punch of the future. Another arm could make them even more dangerous.

Kansas City is clearly the other best team in the league, but they lack something the Angels have: star power. You don’t absolutely need star power to win, but it certainly helps. Los Angeles has that in Trout and to a lesser degree, Albert Pujols.

It took them a while, but the Angels are finally playing the way everyone knew they could after winning 98 games a season ago. They may not reach that win total in 2015, but that doesn’t matter to them as long as they’re in the playoffs.

After all, anything more than an ALDS exit will be an improvement from last year. With their recent run in mind, though, it’s a good bet that the Angels have their sights set much higher than that.

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