ANAHEIM — As the Angels limp to the end of the season, the positive spin will undoubtedly be to point to their improvement over last year.

The Angels, who were 72-88 heading into the penultimate game of the season on Saturday night, are guaranteed to win at least nine more games than when they were 63-99 in 2024.

That is misleading, though.

“If we said we’re nine or 10 games better, we shouldn’t use that as the benchmark, because wins and losses that we’re judging right now aren’t the ultimate decider of that,” interim manager Ray Montgomery said.

While the record is obviously the ultimate metric that determines whether you make the playoffs or not, for all the teams that don’t make the playoffs, there are other ways to evaluate how good a team is and how much better it needs to be.

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