Angels fans stage sell-the-team protests outside Angel Stadium

More than 100 Los Angeles Angels fans gathered at the main entrance to Angel Stadium on Saturday and turned their anger at owner Arte Moreno into a public demand: sell the team. The protests did not stop at the gates. Fans carried the message inside the ballpark, where chants of "Sell the Team" echoed around the stadium as the Angels prepared for a weekend series against the Texas Rangers.

The demonstrations were organized through fan-run social media accounts including Angels Boycott and Angels Central, and the weekend campaign was built to be visible. Fans were asked to wear black on Friday and to stay loud, while another scene the day before showed shirtless supporters in an otherwise empty upper deck, riding the viral "tarps off" trend that helped spread the protest beyond the stadium lots.

The anger was not rooted in one bad stretch. It reflected years of losing, payroll frustration and what many fans see as organizational drift. The Angels have not had a winning record since 2015 and have not reached the postseason since after the 2014 season, the longest active playoff drought in Major League Baseball. The club also set a franchise-record 99 losses in 2024, then finished 72-90 in 2025, and entered Sunday with an MLB-worst 19-34 record.

The protest has also taken shape against a backdrop of fading attendance and skepticism about ownership. Only 23,803 fans were at Angel Stadium for the Angels’ 14-6 loss to the Athletics on May 20, a number that underscored how thin the patience has become. Fans have also seized on Moreno’s repeated defense of cheap tickets as more important than winning, reading it as a sign that affordability has replaced competitiveness as the franchise’s priority.

The organizational unrest has extended to the dugout as well. Kurt Suzuki is already the Angels’ sixth manager since Mike Scioscia left after the 2018 season, a revolving door that has done little to stabilize the club around stars such as Mike Trout or around general manager Perry Minasian’s roster decisions. By Sunday, when the Rangers game was set for national streaming on Peacock, the protest movement had become bigger than one series.

What unfolded outside Angel Stadium looked less like a burst of fan frustration than a referendum on ownership itself. Organizers have said the movement is expected to last all season, a sign that in Anaheim, the question is no longer whether the Angels are in a bad stretch, but whether fan activism has become one of the few remaining levers left in modern pro sports.