{"id":763653,"date":"2026-06-27T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:02:38","slug":"perry-minasian-fired-as-angels-gm-after-6-mlb-seasons-amid-2026-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763653\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Minasian Fired as Angels GM After 6 MLB Seasons Amid 2026 Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Los Angeles Angels fired general manager Perry Minasian and brought in John Mozeliak as interim general manager, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mozeliak will also operate as a baseball operations consultant for Los Angeles, overseeing the club&#8217;s day-to-day operations amid the search for a new full-time general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Angels currently sit at the bottom of the American League West standings with a 34-48 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Club president Molly Jolly thanked Minasian for his tenure with the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Perry has been a valued leader who worked tirelessly over the last six years to strengthen our baseball operations department,&#8221; Jolly said in a\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/angels\/news\/angels-dismiss-general-manager-perry-minasian\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">team statement<\/a>. &#8220;I am grateful for his dedication, insight and many contributions to our organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Minasian was initially hired by Los Angeles in Nov. 2020, as the team posted a 392-500 record throughout his tenure with the organization. The Angels didn&#8217;t make a postseason appearance across that span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Los Angeles accumulated a franchise-record 99 losses in 2024, following it up with a 2025 campaign in which the team made a slight improvement by finishing at 72-90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Angels have taken another step back this year and chose to part ways with Minasian before he finished out the final season of his current contract, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">They&#8217;ll now turn to Mozeliak, who previously spent 30 years with the St. Louis Cardinals. This included a stint as the Cardinals&#8217; general manager from 2007 to 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels fired general manager Perry Minasian and brought in John Mozeliak as interim general manager,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-763653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}