For what seems like the past several years I keep hearing about

Mike Trout

Albert Pujols (who I get was old)

Shohei Ohtani

Anthony Rendon

YouTube keeps feeding me highlight after highlight of Shohei shutting people down from the mound

Shohei and Trout having back to back triples

Shohei leading in HRs

Trout doing Trout things

And then I look at the standings and Angels are never near the top.

What gives?