Posted on 09/30/2019 3:23:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Beset by injuries and tragedy, Ausmus' team struggled for nearly every month of the summer, except for a burst of inspired play through its grief over the midseason death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in a hotel room in Texas. Only five major league regulars made it through the entire season without going on the injured list.
"I want to thank Brad for his hard work and dedication to this organization over the last two seasons as both a special assistant and a manager," Eppler said in a statement. "He navigated this franchise through one of its most difficult seasons with class and professionalism."
Ausmus was hired to provide a fresh voice to the Angels after nearly two decades under Scioscia while incorporating new-school strategies in analytics and player management. He did all of those things while maintaining an apparently strong relationship with Trout and his other players, but the results never showed up.
The Angels went 12-6 immediately after Skaggs' death on July 1, improving to 54-49 while rallying together in the wake of their well-liked starting pitcher's sudden death. But Los Angeles' AL wild card hopes abruptly fell apart in late July with a 2-5 homestand against AL cellar-dwellers Baltimore and Detroit, starting with a 16-inning loss to the Orioles that depleted their pitching staff.
The Angels went 7-18 in September and finished 37 games behind the AL West champion Houston Astros.
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This is ALL to hire Joe Madden the Cubs ex-manager. He is a former member of the Angels organization and they are slobbering to hire him.
Yep. I read just the other day, they intended to keep him for at least one more season.. I assumed he had to be in trouble when he seemed to have to explain his decisions to his players during the game.
They can have Maddon. The Cubs tanked the last 2 seasons right at the end. The fans wanted his head.
What’s ironic is that a baseball manager is less relevant today than ever before. Today, the manager is just a guy who does what the GM’s computer programs tell him to do.
The main problems with pro sports are, ultimately you 'go to war with the army you have', and no amount of coaching can change the budget of the team or injuries etc, and of course the B) on this is, the owner can't be fired. It's the owner making the coaching personnel decisions.
I think you are correct. Joe took the big ZOT from the Cubs pretty well it appeared....almost like the he knew he had the Angels, or someone else’s, manager gig already lined up. We will see I guess.
Mike Scioscia managed the Angels for how many seasons? Brad Ausmus got one. Maybe they are going to go after Joe Madden.
I remember my dad taking me to Angel games. We lived in nearby Orange and it was a ten-minute drive. We were usually able to get the Club Section seats, usually the section right next to the press box where Dick Enberg, who started his stellar baseball career in 1969, and Don Wells, the original color announcer, announced the games. We attended games all the way to my last year in high school (I left in my junior year to join the Army).
Nowadays I wouldn’t dream of going, even if I still lived in California. The crowds are a bit wack, and StubHub charges $120 minimum per ticket for the section I sat in with my dad for mid-season, weeknight games.
Maybe after Trout when down the team just quit on Ausmus.
Oh, forgot...those seats at the time were $4.00 apiece, a fortune compared to the $1.50 in the Bob Ueker seats.
I didn't realize Madden had ties to the Angels.
They quit before then. They looked like a completely different after the Skaggs incident.
And Trout, I think is...well..declining as a player. Too many times he’ll come to the plate and it’s like Mighty Casey. Though Ausmus may share some blame for that by trying to get the Angels into the winners circle with an emphasis on home run scoring rather than baseball fundamentals.
The Angles can track down another manager but they won’t track down the Houston Astros.
Baseball managers are like politicians where they can totally f-up in their job and yet land another great gig somewhere else.
Yeah, he was a coach in the Angels organization at one time.
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