{"id":17066,"date":"2025-10-22T02:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17066\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:45:10","slug":"maui-native-named-new-manager-of-los-angeles-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17066\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui native named new manager of Los Angeles Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LOS ANGELES (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Maui native is now among 30 Major League Baseball managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kurt Suzuki, who is originally from Wailuku, has been named the next manager of the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Although this is his first professional coaching job, the Baldwin High School graduate has extensive playing experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Suzuki played for 16 years in the MLB as a catcher and world champion with the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He even spent two seasons with the Angels before retiring in 2022, adding an element of homecoming to his baseball career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Suzuki has worked in the franchise\u2019s front office for the last three years since retiring from playing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Maui native is now among 30 Major League Baseball managers. Kurt Suzuki, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1426,14710,2135,7,2289,14708,48,52,51,10572,47,50,49,13035,2747,14706,2022,14709,14707],"class_list":["post-17066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angels","tag-baldwin","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-hawaii","tag-kurt","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-league","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-major","tag-manager","tag-maui","tag-native","tag-suzuki","tag-wailuku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066","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=17066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}