{"id":330719,"date":"2025-12-04T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330719\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:58:08","slug":"source-former-angels-manager-washington-joins-giants-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330719\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Former Angels manager Washington joins Giants staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alden GonzalezDec 4, 2025, 02:28 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n

Former Los Angeles Angels<\/a> manager Ron Washington is finalizing a deal to join the San Francisco Giants<\/a>‘ coaching staff, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday.<\/p>\n

They are still working through the particulars of his role, but Washington, also a longtime third-base coach, is expected to at least work with the team’s infielders.<\/p>\n

Washington was hired to manage the Angels leading up to the 2024 season but spent a good chunk of 2025 away from the team after undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery<\/a> and was told he would not return at season’s end<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The 73-year-old Washington, who stated near the end of the season that he was in good health and expressed a desire to continue managing, now will join the staff of rookie manager and longtime Tennessee Volunteers coach Tony Vitello.<\/p>\n

Washington, who also managed the Texas Rangers<\/a> to back-to-back World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011, has long been hailed as one of the best infield instructors in the game, drawing rave reviews from several All-Star-caliber players in his extended time with the Atlanta Braves<\/a> (2017-23) and then-Oakland Athletics<\/a> (1996-2006, 2015-16).<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, Washington will work primarily with a Gold Glove third baseman in Matt Chapman<\/a>, a star-caliber shortstop in Willy Adames<\/a> and Rafael Devers<\/a>, the slugging third baseman who is still working through his transition to first base.<\/p>\n

USA Today first reported on Washington joining the Giants’ coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alden GonzalezDec 4, 2025, 02:28 PM ET CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-330719","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\/330719","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=330719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}