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The sale of MLB’s Los Angeles Angels has been officially announced. Owner Arte Moreno, who bought the team from Disney for roughly $184 million, is now reportedly selling it for an estimated $4 billion-plus — the highest sale price in franchise history. Despite fielding Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout in recent years, the team has continued to struggle, and on 5ch, comments poured in hailing it as a “huge win for Moreno” as an investment, while plenty of replies also latched onto the twisted trivia that the team’s home city isn’t actually “Los Angeles” but the neighboring city of Anaheim.
Published 9/2 (Wed) 3:28 AM
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Owner Moreno set to sell the team
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Even though the stadium's gorgeous.
Go there in person and it's actually pretty run down — the stadium's falling apart.
What exactly are you trying to prove by naming a mall that maybe 1% of Japanese people have even heard of?
They've got a Lopia there too, huh (Lopia — a Japanese supermarket chain).
And 3 of that 1% just happen to be in this very thread.
It's prime real estate right next to Disneyland 💦 they're really after the stadium and the land around it 💦
Summary here:
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Adell and O'Hoppe are both gone now too.
And dead weight like Trout's contract sticks around till 2030.
He's a senior from Ohtani's old high school.
Though if it were really such a can't-miss cash cow, he wouldn't be selling — teams like that just don't go up for sale, the way NFL franchises never do.
They could've turned into the Dodgers but never did, because the front office's management was just bad at its job.
Then again, would any team besides the Angels have even let him do the two-way thing in the first place?
It was always Anaheim.
They just started calling themselves "LA."
Same deal as Tokyo Disneyland or Tokyo German Village — neither's actually in Tokyo.
With Ohtani-san still there it'd go for ¥400 billion 🙋♀0, so without him it's maybe 1/10 of that, around ¥40 billion — and without Ohtani-san's Japanese sponsor money behind it, the going rate might be more like ¥10 billion 😭
Being such an upscale residential area, maybe it's just not the kind of environment that pulls in crowds.
With his deferred payments, he's basically locked in as a future Dodgers owner already — so Dodgers pretty much equals Ohtani at this point.
Now selling for an MLB-record $4 billion (or possibly more), up from an estimated market value of $2.8 billion.
Total win for Moreno.
Yeah, total win right there.
Whatever else you say, he's walking away with a serious profit.
Once Ohtani left, the Japanese fans left right along with him though.
Angels GM: "The air conditioning is working just fine."
Next day → Angels post a job listing for an HVAC technician‼︎
It's technically part of the greater LA metro area, sure, but that spot is Anaheim.
Calling it "LA" is honestly a stretch.
Kind of like calling somewhere in Chiba part of "Tokyo," maybe?
Kind of like how people assume Koshien Stadium is in Osaka? (It's actually in Hyogo.)
"Tokyo Lotte Marines," "Tokyo Seibu Lions" — at least Japanese people are honest enough not to pull that kind of thing. (Both teams actually play in Chiba and Saitama, not Tokyo.)
Apparently he's the Arsenal owner.
Between him and the Chelsea and Liverpool owners, all these Premier League billionaire owners are muscling into MLB now.
Even with a massive city like San Francisco sitting right across the bay.
What are you talking about, the move to Las Vegas is already locked in — set to start in 2028.
They already left Oakland after last season.
So now literally every pro sports team has left Oakland. Really feels like the end of an era.
Arsenal has a single individual owner, but Chelsea and Liverpool were both bought by investment groups.
Oh, thanks, I'll update that.
Honestly, Arsenal being owned by just one guy is pretty impressive.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The Angels were bought from Disney by Arte Moreno for roughly $184 million back in 2003. Shohei Ohtani played for the team from 2018 to 2023, and Mike Trout remains on the roster today, yet the franchise has continued to struggle, going years without a division title. This sale price is said to be the highest in MLB history, and the thread’s attention centered on the deal’s success as an investment — “more than 20x return in 23 years” — while opinions split on why a team could command such a high price despite its poor on-field performance. Two points drove the debate: ① how much of that price reflects the brand value built up during Ohtani’s time there, and ② the dispute over the team’s name — officially the “Los Angeles Angels,” but the stadium actually sits in the neighboring city of Anaheim, a mismatch commenters compared to Japan’s “Tokyo Disneyland” or “Tokyo German Village,” neither of which is actually in Tokyo. One thing readers could easily get wrong: Ohtani now plays for the Dodgers and has no direct connection to the Angels’ sale, and the sale itself isn’t happening because of poor team performance the way it might for a struggling club like the Dodgers — it’s simply the owner personally cashing out his assets.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[MLB] Angels Ownership Sale Officially Announced — Team Kept Struggling Despite Trout and Ohtani in Recent Years… Owner Moreno Makes His Decision.”
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