{"id":121675,"date":"2025-06-22T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121675\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:27:10","slug":"ron-washington-taking-indefinite-leave-as-angels-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121675\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Washington Taking Indefinite Leave As Angels Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Washington will not manage the Angels for an indefinite period of time due to a health concern, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBlum3\/status\/1936180103404568742\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Sam Blum of The Athletic. He will attend tonight\u2019s game against the Astros and will watch from the suite. Bench coach Ray Montgomery will manage for however long Washington is unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before reporting the news on Washington, Blum <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBlum3\/status\/1936178691484364977\" rel=\"nofollow\">noted<\/a> that the Angels were holding a players-only meeting. GM Perry Minasian is expected to address the media shortly. Mike DiGiovanna <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeDiGiovanna\/status\/1936179920855875672\" rel=\"nofollow\">relayed<\/a> a comment from Minasian that Washington has not felt well for the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, 73, is in his second season leading the Halos. They lost a franchise-record 99 games a year ago but have been far more competitive this season. They\u2019re taking a 36-38 record into this weekend\u2019s set against Houston. They\u2019re in third place in the AL West, 6.5 games back of the Astros. They\u2019re only two games out in what remains a jumbled Wild Card picture. Their -60 run differential is fourth-worst in the American League, but only the White Sox and A\u2019s seem firmly out of the race in the AL.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery has been the Halos\u2019 bench coach since 2022. He has held the position under each of Joe Maddon, Phil Nevin and Washington. Montgomery spent some time as acting manager during the \u201922 campaign when Nevin was suspended for 10 games for his role in a benches-clearing brawl against the Mariners. The 55-year-old has never held a full managerial position but has been mentioned as a candidate in the past \u2014 including during the 2023 hiring process that eventually led to Washington. MLBTR sends best wishes to Wash on a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Washington will not manage the Angels for an indefinite period of time due to a health concern,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,25615,5051],"class_list":{"0":"post-121675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-ray-montgomery","19":"tag-ron-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114724421292445263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}