{"id":229896,"date":"2025-10-21T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229896\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:05:08","slug":"angels-have-decided-to-hire-former-catcher-kurt-suzuki-as-their-next-manager-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229896\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels have decided to hire former catcher Kurt Suzuki as their next manager, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 42-year-old Suzuki would replace Ron Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angels-ron-washington-4f81d78c915d372264e3104ac9ac143e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who wasn\u2019t brought back to the Angels\u2019 dugout<\/a> after two losing seasons. Washington missed the second half of the current season after undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Angels pivoted to Suzuki and fellow special assistant Torii Hunter as their top candidates after talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angels-albert-pujols-manager-7b495e60b2c905a004953f771e961bfe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former slugger Albert Pujols<\/a> broke down in recent days. Pujols, who has a personal services contract with the Angels, was the early front-runner for the job as a longtime favorite of owner Arte Moreno.<\/p>\n<p>Pujols and Suzuki both have no major league coaching experience.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki would be the Angels\u2019 fifth full-time manager in the past eight seasons since Mike Scioscia was let go.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels have the majors\u2019 longest active streaks of futility, with 10 straight losing seasons and 11 consecutive non-playoff seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Although Minasian has assembled a modestly exciting young core led by shortstop Zach Neto and outfielder Jo Adell to join three-time MVP Mike Trout, the team has shown few signs of emerging from its decade of profound struggle under Moreno\u2019s stewardship. The Angels went 72-90 last season, finishing last in the AL West and 13th in the American League.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki, who is from Hawaii, is a fourth-generation Japanese-American. He would join Don Wakamatsu and Dave Roberts among the list of former and current MLB managers with Asian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki would take over the Angels\u2019 dugout during another chapter of negative publicity for the franchise, which is currently involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angels-skaggs-overdose-trial-trout-baseball-010fa75b11a528c3641fa24accda304b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a highly public trial over a wrongful death lawsuit<\/a> filed by the family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died of a drug overdose in 2019. Trout is expected to testify in the trial Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 42-year-old Suzuki would replace Ron Washington, who wasn\u2019t brought back to the Angels\u2019 dugout after two losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-229896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229896","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=229896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}