{"id":85011,"date":"2025-12-07T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85011\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:52:22","slug":"ron-washington-takes-job-as-giants-infield-coach-after-missing-most-of-2025-with-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Washington takes job as Giants infield coach after missing most of 2025 with medical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not even a quadruple bypass heart surgery will stop Ron Washington from coaching the game of baseball.<\/p>\n

Washington, 73, will be joining the Giants\u2019 coaching staff as an infield coach, he confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are working out the logistics. I have agreed to join the Giants,\u201d Washington told The Associated Press in a text message<\/a>. \u201cI get a chance to continue to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington was at the helm of the Angels last season before leaving abruptly in June<\/a> to undergo the surgery, with bench coach Ray Montgomery taking over as the interim manager for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington talks in the dugout before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, May 6, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Despite the surgery, Washington insisted that the Angels\u2019 decision to fire him<\/a> in September was based on the team\u2019s play rather than his health.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, when you\u2019re a competitor, and you\u2019re in charge, none of that stuff comes into play,\u201d Washington told The Athletic in September<\/a>. \u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got to make chicken salad out of chicken s\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Angels finished in last place in the American League West with a 72-90 record.<\/p>\n

Under Washington\u2019s tenure, however, Los Angeles was sitting at a respectable 36-38 when he left the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I had the team going in the right direction \u2014 I really did,\u201d Washington said. \u201cAnd it was just too bad that my health came into play. There\u2019s nothing that I can do about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my team. I think the team took on my personality. We were definitely showing that. In this business, this is the kind of stuff that happens to you. When everything goes not the way people wanted, you take the blame for it. And I\u2019m OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington walks back to the dugout after arguing a call. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Washington also mentioned that he did not speak with owner Arte Moreno before being fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to accept that,\u201d Washington added. \u201cI can\u2019t go back to argue with them to try and tell them different when they\u2019ve made a decision. \u2026 We were starting to perform better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not even a quadruple bypass heart surgery will stop Ron Washington from coaching the game of baseball. Washington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1426,2843,47,2866,13809,47977,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-85011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-angels","12":"tag-interim-manager","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-ron-washington","16":"tag-the-giants","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011","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=85011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}