{"id":176159,"date":"2026-02-13T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176159\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:11:07","slug":"fired-angels-manager-back-doing-on-field-drills-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176159\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Angels Manager Back Doing On-Field Drills In San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Washington might be the ultimate baseball lifer. The former Los Angeles Angels manager is <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/angels\/news\/early-bullpen-workouts-cast-an-ominous-tone-on-opening-day-staff-makeup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:back on the field;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">back on the field<\/a> with the San Francisco Giants in an instructional role, conducting the same in fielding drills he\u2019s either done or coached for most of his adult life.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is 74, and according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7038420\/2026\/02\/11\/ron-washington-giants-angels-quadruple-bypass\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a>, he shows some of the physical ravages of time and illnesss. He had quadruple bypass surgery last summer, and he has an assistant to help him run those infield drills now. He\u2019s dropped from 172 pounds down to 152 after his surgery, and the once-wiry, 5\u201911\u201d Washington is proud to show the definition that\u2019s returned to his biceps.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>What he\u2019s not proud of, though, is how he was treated by the Angels and another club he approached to try and land a job. Angels GM Perry MInasian told Washington he lost his job in Anaheim because of the club\u2019s performance, but he still doesn\u2019t believe that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t lose that job because of the record we had,\u201d Washington said. \u201cI lost that job because of my condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I wouldn\u2019t have had an operation, I still think Perry would have kept me over there. I understand what he did. But the Giants came in and didn\u2019t second-guess. They came in and believed in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Reds did the same thing to Washington, according to Rosenthal\u2019s interview. Reds manager Terry FRancona called Washington after the season ended, and both baseball lifers were excited about having Washington join Francona\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got afraid of me,\u201d Washington said, referring to the Reds\u2019 front office. \u201cThey got afraid of my condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reds GM Nick Krall denies this, and his time with Washington goes back to 2002, when Krall was an intern with the A\u2019s. But it was the Giants who finally extended a baseball lifeline to Washington, and it was Giants bench coach Jayce Tingler, who worked with the Texas Rangers when Washington was the team\u2019s manager, who extended the invite because of Washington\u2019s knowledge of tendencies, traits and characteristics, both on the field and off.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Perry Minasian has a younger bother, Zack, who happens to be the Giants GM, and while Minasian may not have been able to hire Washington, he told his brother has no doubt about the baseball part of what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be great. He\u2019ll be awesome,\u201d Perry told Zack. \u201cJust make sure he\u2019s healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Washington might be the ultimate baseball lifer. The former Los Angeles Angels manager is back on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,83875,9004,48902,2866,13809,4820,5224],"class_list":["post-176159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angels-gm-perry-minasian","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-ken-rosenthal","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-ron-washington","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176159","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=176159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}