Closing Time: How much does Huston Street have left?

It’s hard to believe the Angels were baseball’s best team back in 2014. No one topped their 98 wins that season, and the future looked bright with Mike Trout at the head of the line.

Trout is still in The OC, of course, signed to a team-friendly contract that runs through 2020. But the rest of the Angels roster is a mess, a collection of problems that’s led to a 32-47 crash landing this year. Your sun-baked Angels are currently buried under 30 feet of snow, 19 games back in the AL West. This team isn’t going anywhere.

The blame is shared between offense (18th in runs) and pitching (23rd in runs), with some bad luck thrown into the mix. And at some point you work your way to the back of the bullpen, where closer Huston Street might be on his last legs.

Street’s game has been well known for several seasons now. He’s a solid but unspectacular closer, and someone who needs some maintenance along the way. He hasn’t hit the 70-inning mark since 2008. He’s bounced around the majors, closing for the A’s, Rockies, Padres and Angels. He was a stopper at the University of Texas, too.

Street has already had a disabled-list stint this year, missing time with an oblique injury. With that, he’s been limited to 15.1 erratic innings. He was knocked around for four hits and three runs in a get-work appearance Wednesday, pushing his ERA up to 5.28. He’s also carrying a 1.89 WHIP, with 10 walks against nine strikeouts. His fastball velocity, never a Street selling point, has cratered to a personal low of 87.9 mph.

A stable closing situation is somewhat of a luxury for contending clubs. The Angels have so much red ink on the current roster, it could be a while before the Street situation draws heavy attention. The most frustrating angle of Street struggling comes in the theoretical trade market; the club might want to make Street available in the July trading season, but his current numbers don’t drive the market.

You’re entitled to make excuses for Street if you prefer. His ugly resume this year is obviously based off a small sample of work. He’s allowing an unlucky .346 BABIP. Perhaps he’ll get back in form in a few appearances, more removed from the DL stint. Mike Scioscia is a veteran-coddling manager, unlikely to do anything rash with his vested closer.

On the flip side, Street does turn 33 in August, and eventually the circus leaves town for everybody. He’s been working with under-90 gas since 2012. Anytime a pitcher has more walks than strikeouts, I don’t want to go anywhere near him. But that could merely be descriptive of Street battling mechanical problems; it doesn’t have to be predictive of where the story is going.

Nonetheless, in some leagues it pays to be proactive when a closer is struggling, and with that, I want to talk about Cam Bedrosian. The 24-year-old righty has been the team’s best reliever, posting a 1.29 ERA and 1.11 WHIP over 28 innings. He’s struck out 29 men, walked just eight. There’s a pedigree and a legacy to consider; Bedrosian was a first-round pick in 2010, and his father, Steve, was a notable closer in the 1980s (he even won the 1987 NY Cy Young Award, although that speaks to how crazy and uninformed the voters used to be).

Bedrosian might be the No. 3 option in this bullpen when Joe Smith (hamstring) returns, but there’s something to be said for chasing skills and performance — and letting the roles fall where they may. I’ve added a few Baby Bedrock shares in pools where you need to be ahead of the closing curve. If he merely gives me quality innings, I’ll take it; and if Street comes into another injury, continues to slump or is dealt, maybe a handshake role is on the way.

Bedrosian is owned in just one percent of Yahoo leagues. This card is available to most of you.

• The Yankees are another team that might not be headed anywhere, though they are on the periphery of contention. New York’s best night of the season probably came Wednesday, putting together a stirring six-run rally to topple the Rangers. I’m not down on Texas closer Sam Dyson, it was just one night where he didn’t have his stuff. Brian McCann clubbed a couple of homers in the victory, while the consistently-underrated Didi Gregorius won the game with a two-run shot of his own.

Gregorius is now hitting .290 on the year, on pace for 15 homers, 74 RBIs and eight steals. He’s currently outearning Addison Russell, Ketel Marte and Troy Tulowitzki, don’t you know? You can still add Gregorius in 82 percent of Yahoo leagues.

• You can’t add Aaron Sanchez, not in any living, breathing, competitive league, but he earned a bullet for the eight innings he threw at Coors Field (6 H, 1 R, 0 HR, 2 BB, 3 K). He’s now a 3.08 ERA man for the year, with a 1.23 WHIP. Just under three strikeouts for every walk, and his ground-ball rate is an eyelash under 60 percent. Heady stuff on the eve of his 24th birthday (you have one shopping day left).

The Blue Jays will probably move Sanchez to the bullpen at some point this summer, an angle to keep his innings in line, but this is a dynamic arm I want on my team, no matter the role. He’s a glittering target in keeper league, too, the rocky division he has to deal with notwithstanding.

• For a pitcher like Junior Guerra, simply making it to the major leagues is a monumental achievement. He spent 10 years in a variety of professional outfits before a pedestrian cup of coffee with the White Sox last year. The Brewers signed him before this season, ostensibly as an organizational pitcher. A 31-year-old without a pedigree, nothing to see here.

Guerra didn’t do anything notable in his four Triple-A starts, but injuries and circumstance pushed him into the Milwaukee rotation anyway. And out of nowhere, he’s been a steady hand. Guerra stopped the Dodgers on Wednesday, his best turn yet — eight scoreless innings (2 H, 2 BB, 7 K). The ERA moved down to 3.25, the WHIP 1.07.

Guerra isn’t just moxie on the mound — he cranks the heater up to 93 mph. FIP doesn’t completely endorse his current ERA, but 3.69 isn’t a red flag, either. A strikeout rate of 7.8 is passable in today’s game. He’s walking just 2.7 batters per nine.

The assignments won’t be easy next week, with Washington and St. Louis on the way. But Guerra deserves a look in more than 17 percent of Yahoo leagues.