{"id":263221,"date":"2025-10-31T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263221\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:52:09","slug":"mike-maddux-leaving-texas-rangers-for-los-angeles-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263221\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Maddux leaving Texas Rangers for Los Angeles Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 31, 2025, 11:59 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> pitching coach Mike Maddux is leaving the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Maddux, 64, helped guide the Rangers to a World Series title in 2023 and to a league-leading 3.41 ERA in 2025. But he chose to leave after the Rangers replaced fired manager Bruce Bochy with Skip Schumaker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Texas Rangers are forever grateful to Mike for his contributions here,&#8221; said Chris Young, the team&#8217;s president of baseball operations. &#8220;Mike has played a major role for some of the best teams in Rangers history, including the franchise&#8217;s first World Series title in 2023. We wish him the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maddux was in his second stint as the club&#8217;s pitching coach. He served under Ron Washington and Jeff Banister from 2009 through 2015 before leaving to take a similar role with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to join Bochy in 2023 and work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31174\/nathan-eovaldi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32796\/jacob-degrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob deGrom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> are reportedly signing Maddux as their new pitching coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 31, 2025, 11:59 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; Texas Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux is leaving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-263221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}