{"id":229804,"date":"2025-10-21T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229804\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:15:07","slug":"los-angeles-angels-to-name-kurt-suzuki-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229804\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels to name Kurt Suzuki manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Los Angeles Angels are turning to a name from their past to take the reins, but it\u2019s not Albert Pujols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The New York Post\u2019s Jon Heyman reports the team is set to name Kurt Suzuki its new manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A catcher, the 42-year-old Suzuki spent the final two seasons of his 16-year big league career with the Halos in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Wailuku, HI native has been with the organization as a special advisor since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally taken with a second-round pick of the 2004 MLB Amateur Draft out of Cal State-Fullerton, Suzuki went on to appear in 1,635 games with the Angels, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Suzuki was an All-Star with the Twins in 2014 and was a member of the Nationals team that won the 2019 World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Suzuki succeeds Ron Washington, who spent two seasons in the Angels dugout, but missed most of last season after undergoing a quadruple bypass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Angels currently hold the league\u2019s longest playoff drought, having last made the postseason in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels are turning to a name from their past to take the reins, but it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,109553,462,82],"class_list":["post-229804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-angels-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-227","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}