{"id":810459,"date":"2026-08-11T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810459\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:22:09","slug":"angels-fire-mike-maddux-darryl-scott-dom-chiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810459\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Fire Mike Maddux, Darryl Scott, Dom Chiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Angels are cleaning house on the pitching end of their coaching staff. ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan reports<\/a> that the Halos have fired pitching coach Mike Maddux, assistant pitching coach Darryl Scott and bullpen coach Dom Chiti. The team announced the three dismissals shortly after the initial report. Double-A pitching coach Tim Leveque and assistant pitching coordinator Michael Wuertz<\/a> will step into the roles of interim pitching coach and interim bullpen coach, respectively, according to the team. Interim GM John Mozeliak offered the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter spending time discussing with [manager Kurt Suzuki<\/a>] where we are as a coaching staff and where we want to go in the future, we felt it was best to make a change. With seven weeks remaining, we plan to use this time to evaluate what additional steps are needed to elevate our entire pitching program and best position us for success moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the Angels have made some strides as a staff this year, the overall results haven\u2019t been great. Reid Detmers<\/a> and Jos\u00e9 Soriano<\/a> have enjoyed strong seasons under this group, and since-traded relievers like Chase Silseth<\/a> and Ryan Zeferjahn<\/a> have had breakout performances. Even with those high notes, however, the Angels have MLB\u2019s seventh-worst ERA (4.53) and the game\u2019s worst walk rate (11.1%). Some of that is simply due to the personnel with which they were given to work. Even the best coaches in the world can\u2019t coax strong performances when presented with lackluster talent, and Anaheim\u2019s pitching staff (particularly the bullpen) leaned far too heavily on a thin farm system and journeymen veterans who are nearing the end of their MLB careers.<\/p>\n

Maddux joined the Angels on a one-year deal following the 2025 season. He\u2019d been with the division-rival Rangers, who granted the Angels permission to speak to Maddux even as Texas simultaneously made an effort to retain him \u2014 either in his existing pitching coach role or a new role within the organization. Clearly, they weren\u2019t able to reach a deal and Maddux headed west to Anaheim.<\/p>\n

The Angels were the fifth stop of Maddux\u2019s illustrious coaching career. He\u2019s previously served as a pitching coach for the Brewers, Rangers (twice), Nationals and Cardinals. He logged at least five total seasons with Milwaukee, Texas and St. Louis and stayed two years in D.C.<\/p>\n

Maddux, who\u2019ll turn 65 later this month, enjoyed a 15-year career in the majors and pitched for nine different teams. He logged a 4.05 ERA in 861 2\/3 big league innings, working both as a starter and reliever. Even with that lengthy career, he\u2019s better known for his coaching acumen. The 2026 season was Maddux\u2019s 24th consecutive year as a major league pitching coach.<\/p>\n

Scott, 58, is no stranger to coaching underwhelming groups of names. He spent two years as the Rockies\u2019 bullpen coach and four as their lead pitching coach, logging six total seasons on the MLB staff from 2020-25. He\u2019d been Colorado\u2019s minor league pitching coordinator beforehand. As was the case in Denver, Scott wasn\u2019t given a ton to work with under Suzuki and the Halos. His hiring in Anaheim was something of a full-circle moment in his baseball career, as his lone major league experience as a pitcher came with the 1993 Angels, when he tossed 20 innings across 16 relief appearances.<\/p>\n

Chiti, 67, has spent 20 years coaching in the big leagues and was a scout and minor league coach prior to that. He\u2019s been a bullpen coach with the Rangers, Orioles and Mets in the past \u2014 to say nothing of a prior stint as the Angels\u2019 bullpen coach, from 2021-22.<\/p>\n

All three of the now-dismissed Angels coaches have extensive big league experience \u2014\u00a0 much of it under the most prolific managers of the current generation. Maddux has worked alongside Bruce Bochy, Dusty Baker and Ron Washington. Scott was Bud Black\u2019s pitching coach for several years in Colorado. Chiti has coached on a pair of staffs run by Buck Showalter. They\u2019re all respected dugout veterans who should be able to leverage that experience into new opportunities before long, should they wish to continue coaching. A quick exit like this never looks great, but the directionless nature of the Angels organization and the frequent tumult\/personnel turnover under owner Arte Moreno is well known throughout the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels are cleaning house on the pitching end of their coaching staff. ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan reports that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[343994,343995,116221,99],"class_list":["post-810459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-darryl-scott","tag-dom-chiti","tag-mike-maddux","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810459","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=810459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}