{"id":16519,"date":"2025-10-21T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16519\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:13:08","slug":"los-angeles-angels-to-name-kurt-suzuki-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/16519\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels to name Kurt Suzuki manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/226\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> 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 team officially confirmed Kurt Suzuki as its new manager on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The New York Post\u2019s Jon Heyman was first to report an imminent hire earlier in the day.<\/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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/223\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/220\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/220\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/216\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/216\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> and Oakland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/229\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/229\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a>.<\/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":16520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6013,14441],"class_list":["post-16519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-apple-news","tag-los-angeles-angels-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-227"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}