They managed to win only one game in the postseason.

And then they took a beating this offseason.

Oh, they did sign Brian Fuentes to be the closer, a role he has shown over a four-year period he can handle but without the fanfare of others. And in the final days before camp opened they found a bonus by taking advantage of Bobby Abreu's inability to generate free-agent market interest, and added his quality offensive approach for $5 million plus incentives.

This is a team that was good enough to beat up on the weakest division in baseball, roll up 100 victories and then get hit with the reality that it wasn't good enough to go head-to-head with the big boys in October. Yet instead of trying to tweak the roster and improve, they add Fuentes and Abreu in an attempt to patch holes.

With questions remaining about the health of outfielder Vladimir Guerrero's surgically-repaired knee, the Angels still have to deal with questions about the impact of the free-agent loss of first baseman Mark Teixeira, record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez, outfielder Garret Anderson and right-handed starter Jon Garland. The strange part, considering owner Artie Moreno's track record of being willing to create budget space as needed, is that Teixeira is the only one of the four the Angels even made a serious effort to retain.

And it's not like they were focused on other big-name free agents. They waited for the market to bottom out before landing Abreu and took advantage of a quickly fading market for Fuentes to get him for two years and $16.5 million — far from the four-year, $40 million his agent initially indicated he would want, which wound up scaring away teams instead of creating a bidding frenzy.

But with spring training opening this weekend, the Angels aren't the only team that failed to take care of offseason business.