Breaking: The Angels have fired manager Brad Ausmus. Joe Maddon has expressed immediate interest in the job
The Angels fired Brad Ausmus as their manager Monday, the day after the team completed its worst season in 20 years.
The move came one day after the Chicago Cubs parted ways with Joe Maddon, the manager who led that team to its first World Series championship in 108 years and previously led the Tampa Bay Rays to their lone World Series appearance.Maddon joined the Rays after working in the Angels organization for three decades. He was the Angels’ bench coach under Mike Scioscia in 2002, when the team won its only World Series championship.
In 19 years under Scioscia, the Angels never lost more than 88 games. In their last year before Scioscia, in 1999, Maddon went 19-10 as the interim manager on a 92-loss team. In their first year after Scioscia, Ausmus led the Angels to a 90-loss season.The Angels are desperate for starting pitching and are expected to be willing to spend to get it, with Orange County native and Cy Young award candidate Gerrit Cole as the top target.
That means that the best player in baseball, Mike Trout, never has won a postseason game in his nine years with the Angels. However, he believes in Eppler’s vision, so much so that Trout passed up free agency to sign a $426.5-million extension with the Angels last March.
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