Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are two of the American League's most productive players, yet the Los Angeles Angels are 12 games below .500.

The playoff field has been expanded but they also sit eight games back of the sixth and final postseason berth. Barring a major turnaround, the Angels will miss the playoffs for the 12th time in the past 13 seasons.

"There's definitely a formula to win around them -- and it's a deeper team," Perry Minasian said. "You can do that in a lot of different ways. The draft's part of it, but free agency is part of that, trades is part of that. I definitely see a road map to putting a competitive team on the field with those guys. They're great players; they've really performed well. I think they deserve all the accolades they get daily; I'm looking forward to watching both of them in the All-Star Game.

"I think they're two of the best players in baseball, and we're lucky to have them."