{"id":376779,"date":"2026-06-27T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:20:08","slug":"angels-fire-general-manager-perry-minasian-appoint-interim-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376779\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels fire general manager Perry Minasian, appoint interim GM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Angels<\/a> have fired general manager Perry Minasian<\/a> midway through their sixth consecutive disappointing season under his leadership.<\/p>\n

The last-place Angels appointed former Cardinals GM John Mozeliak to be their interim general manager and baseball operations consultant on Friday. Mozeliak will oversee day-to-day baseball operations while assisting the search for the next GM, team president Molly Jolly said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerry has been a valued leader who worked tirelessly over the last six years to strengthen our baseball operations department,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cI am grateful for his dedication, insight and many contributions to our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minasian took over the Angels\u2019 front office in November 2020, but the long-struggling franchise has made no discernible progress during his tenure under mercurial owner Arte Moreno<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Angels\u2019 streaks of 10 straight losing seasons and 11 straight non-playoff seasons are both the longest in the majors, and its farm system is still considered to be among the majors\u2019 worst, just as it was when Minasian arrived.<\/p>\n

The biggest transaction of his tenure occurred when Shohei Ohtani left the Angels<\/a> after six seasons for the Dodgers<\/a> in late 2023, the Angels failing to trade Ohtani for prospects before Ohtani became a free agent.<\/p>\n

Minasian\u2019s flurry of moves before and after the 2023 trade deadline seemed chaotic. The Angels kept Ohtani \u2014 a decision Moreno had a big hand in \u2014 and dealt away several prospects in an attempt to push for the playoffs.<\/p>\n

But the Angels went 8-19 that August and fell so far out of contention that they placed several players on waivers in order to bring their payroll under the luxury tax threshold.<\/p>\n

After holding the majors\u2019 worst record<\/a> for much of the current season, the Angels are tied for last in the AL standings at 34-48 heading into their game against the Athletics on Friday night at Angel Stadium. Los Angeles lost a franchise-record 99 games in 2024, its first season after losing two-time AL MVP Ohtani.<\/p>\n

The Angels never won more than 77 games or finished higher than third in the AL West during Minasian\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

Minasian clashed with respected manager Joe Maddon early in his tenure, eventually leading to Maddon\u2019s firing amid an epic losing streak in the 2022 season. After Phil Nevin and Ron Washington also failed to hold the managerial job for more than two seasons, Minasian hired first-time manager Kurt Suzuki from his own front-office staff last fall, giving him a one-year deal with the acknowledgment that their fates were tied.<\/p>\n

Ray Montgomery served as interim manager in 2025.<\/p>\n

A reduction in payroll forced Minasian to supplement this year\u2019s team with low-cost players \u2014 several returning from major injuries \u2014 such as pitchers Alek Manoah, Jordan Romano, Drew Pomeranz, Kirby Yates and Brent Suter, outfielder Josh Lowe and infielders Yoan Moncada and Adam Frazier.<\/p>\n

Most of the moves didn\u2019t pan out, as Romano and Pomeranz were released, and Manoah, Lowe and Moncada have been busts.<\/p>\n

The largest free-agent deal signed by Minasian was a three-year, $63 million contract for left-hander Yusei Kikuchi before 2025. Kikuchi was an All-Star last season but has been sidelined since late April because of a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

Minasian also signed reliever Robert Stephenson to a three-year, $33 million deal before 2024, but the right-hander is out for this season because of another elbow injury.<\/p>\n

Jolly and Mozeliak are scheduled to speak at a news conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Minasian is a former Rangers clubhouse attendant who rose to positions in the front offices of the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays as a protege of Alex Anthopoulos.<\/p>\n

Minasian had never interviewed for a GM job before he was chosen to replace Billy Eppler by Moreno, who has repeatedly hired GMs with little to no prior experience in the job during his two decades of ownership.<\/p>\n

Mozeliak left the Cardinals last fall after three decades with St. Louis, including the past 18 in charge of baseball operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels have fired general manager Perry Minasian midway through their sixth consecutive disappointing season under his leadership.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14541,1426,152549,9747,2424,18798,423,152551,8426,152552,152550,48,52,51,47,50,49,13035,152548,278,75965],"class_list":["post-376779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angel","tag-angels","tag-baseball-operation-consultant","tag-decade","tag-friday","tag-front-office","tag-game","tag-general-manager-perry-minasian","tag-insight","tag-interim-gm","tag-john-mozeliak","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-major","tag-minasian","tag-season","tag-tenure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376779","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=376779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}