LA Angels: Anthony Rendon as ‘frustrated’ about his year as Halo fans are

Evan Desai

Anthony Rendon, LA Angels. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports

LA Angels fans aren’t enjoying Anthony Rendon‘s second straight disappointing season this year.

Rendon has hit .240/.329/.382 with six home runs and 34 RBI this season. All of those marks are career-lows, except his on-base percentage is tied for a career-low, and he had less RBI in a 2015 year where he missed over half the season, and the pandemic season. He’s so far played less games than he did in the pandemic season, as he’s now been on the IL three times this year.

Rendon expressed that he’s ‘frustrated’ about how that’s been going, now with him on the IL for that third time with his third left hamstring strain.

Anthony Rendon is understandably frustrated, as LA Angels fans are.

Anthony Rendon has now missed 23 games for the LA Angels this year.

In the offseason between 2019 and 2020, Rendon signed a 7-year deal worth $245 million. He’s making $28 million this season.

Mike Trout: $37 million
Anthony Rendon: $28 million
Justin Upton: $23 million
Albert Pujols: $30 million

$118 million not on the field for the Angels yesterday and the upcoming week at least.

That has to be some kind of record, right? Can you confirm @MLBRandomStats ?
— vinnie (@VinRBI) July 6, 2021

There’s no sugarcoating it; he’s been a massive disappointment ever since he joined the Halos.

It’s not just this year where he struggled. In 2020, he hit .286 with nine home runs and 31 RBI. “Tony Two Bags” only hit 11 doubles.

This year, he’s only hit 13. He had 44 in each of his last two years with the Washington Nationals. The two-time Silver Slugger also hit 41 in the season before that, and hit close to 40 two other times in his career.

He’s not the same player he once was, and it’s a fact. He hit over .300 in each of his last three years before he came to Anaheim.

I actually like that he’s expressed that he’s frustrated, though. It shows that he cares, and that he’s aware that he can’t underperform and get hurt all the time.

That’s how it’s been, and it needs to turn around as soon as his spikes come back on.

Evan Desai

Evan Desai has covered MLB with FanSided for 3 years, first as a contributor for FanSided's New York sports publication--Empire Writes Back--and now as the expert at Halo Hangout, the Angels publication for the network. He also runs Reign Of Troy, the USC FanSided publication, and has covered college sports since 2019--most notably USC and UCLA for the Pac-12 Network, University of Arizona and Grand Canyon University for Arizona PBS, and Arizona State University for Sports Illustrated's ASU publication. He has also run the Clippers FanSided publication in the past, Clipperholics, and has made two stops at NBC Sports.