{"id":91701,"date":"2025-12-12T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91701\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:27:17","slug":"minasian-suggest-mike-trout-could-play-center-occasionally-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91701\/","title":{"rendered":"Minasian Suggest Mike Trout Could Play Center Occasionally In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Los Angeles Angels fans want to hide under the bed when Perry Minasian speaks, and there\u2019s good reason for their urge to flee. The Angels GM has acquired a reputation for saying things that are borderline goofy, and he did that a couple of times at the winter GM meetings<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

The first occurred when he was asked about the Angels outfield after the Taylor Ward trade. The Halos have holes in left and center, and according to Vincent Page of Halo Hangout<\/a>, Minasian actually suggested that DH Mike Trout could return to his old haunts center.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m not ruling anything out,\u201d Minasian said to Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register as part of Page’s piece. \u201cIf him playing center field on a certain day makes sense for us to try to win that game, we\u2019re not going to be timid to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the only borderline nonsensical comment Minasian made, however. The Angels are talking about moving reliever Reid Detmers to the starting rotation, even though he\u2019s been a career reliever.<\/p>\n

Most teams would impose a fairly strict innings limit on that type of pitcher, or at least have an idea of where the upper limit might be. But this the Angels, of course, so they do things a little differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a huge believer in innings limits,\u201d Minasian said. \u201cWe use our experience. We use the people we have, our medical staff, and we go start to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The should terrify the fan base if that same philosophy is applied to new starter Grayson Rodriguez, who was acquired from the Baltimore Orioles in the Taylor Ward trade.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anyone who should be on an innings limit it\u2019s Rodriguez, who is trying to come back from an extensive injury history. The same is also true of Alek Manoah, who was signed during the winter meetings after being waived by the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Hopefully new manager Kurt Suzuki and pitching coach Mike Maddux can restore order after Minasian\u2019s comments, and this almost certainly isn\u2019t the only time they\u2019ll have to do this. At least the Angels have a direction going forward, though, and some new additions to get excited about.<\/p>\n

The Angels have a legitimate opportunity to escape from the AL West basement if Suzuki and Maddux can right the ship after last year\u2019s disaster, and unfortunately doing that involves cleaning up after the occasional mess made by the GM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Los Angeles Angels fans want to hide under the bed when Perry Minasian speaks, and there\u2019s good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[45532,163,165,164,50645,4614,36470,10900,2866,23438,5128,14501,48905,26193,17203,57],"class_list":["post-91701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alek-manoah","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angels-outfield","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-kurt-suzuki","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-maddux","tag-mike-trout","tag-perry-minasian","tag-reid-detmers","tag-taylor-ward","tag-the-angels","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91701","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=91701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}