Soler DFA'd. The Angels are done cleaning house.

Jorge Soler was designated for assignment Tuesday, the last name off a roster that looked meaningfully different two weeks ago. He hit three home runs in the 2021 World Series and took home MVP honors that October with Atlanta — one of the more memorable individual performances in recent postseason memory. In Anaheim, he posted 13 home runs and 41 RBI in 66 games, but his overall line cratered to a career-worst .664 OPS. The Angels had already moved on from everyone else. Soler was the final piece of the old roster to go.

Yesterday I noted the deadline had stripped the rotation bare — Soriano, Detmers, Zeferjahn, Adell, all gone in roughly 24 hours. The Soler DFA is a different kind of move: no return, no prospect, just a clearing of the ledger. At 38-50, seven back in the AL West, the Angels aren't shopping for upgrades. They're making room.

What's left is Trout, Ureña anchoring a gutted rotation, and a rookie reliever who has been almost unhittable over 16 appearances. That's a thin foundation, but it's the one the organization has chosen to build on. The sell-off is complete.