{"id":837096,"date":"2026-10-24T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/837096\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:45:40","slug":"angels-fire-manager-kurt-suzuki-after-losing-100-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/837096\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels fire manager Kurt Suzuki after losing 100 games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Angels<\/a> have fired manager Kurt Suzuki<\/a> after he lost 100 games in his only season in charge of the long-struggling club.<\/p>\n

Baseball operations consultant John Mozeliak<\/a> announced Wednesday that the Angels declined the option on Suzuki\u2019s contract and would open a search for a new manager in 2027. Suzuki has been offered the opportunity to stay with the organization as a special assistant.<\/p>\n

\u201cKurt has earned tremendous respect in our clubhouse, and I\u2019ve seen firsthand how much he cares about our players,\u201d Mozeliak said in a statement. \u201cI do not believe our record this year was a true reflection of his true abilities as a manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mozeliak indicated he made the decision in coordination with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which reached a deal to purchase<\/a> controlling ownership from Arte Moreno on Sept. 1. The sale is not expected to close until next year, but the sports conglomerate run by Rams owner Stan Kroenke is already making significant changes to its beleaguered baseball team.<\/p>\n

The Angels went 62-100 \u2014 the first 100-loss season in franchise history \u2014 and finished last in the AL West in their only season under Suzuki, who ended his 16-year major league playing career as a catcher for the Angels in 2021-22. Suzuki had never been a manager at any level before he was given the job by general manager Perry Minasian, who had employed Suzuki as his special assistant for the previous three seasons.<\/p>\n

Minasian was fired by Moreno last June, and longtime St. Louis Cardinals GM Mozeliak stepped in on a temporary basis to run the front office while leading the search for a permanent GM to replace him. That transition plan has been thrown into flux by Moreno\u2019s decision to sell, and Mozeliak didn\u2019t indicate whether he has a long-term future in his own job, although he said he had been looking \u201ctoward 2027 and beyond\u201d while reaching the decision to fire Suzuki.<\/p>\n

Mozeliak also indicated that Suzuki\u2019s entire coaching staff is not expected to return in its current positions, but some members had been offered staff positions in the organization.<\/p>\n

Mozeliak already fired Suzuki\u2019s pitching coach, Mike Maddux, and two staffers in August because he felt the team wasn\u2019t making sufficient use of the technology and analytics available to its pitchers. Mozeliak promoted Tim Leveque, the Angels\u2019 double-A pitching coach, to the major league staff at the time.<\/p>\n

Suzuki\u2019s replacement will be the seventh manager, including interims, to lead the team in nine seasons since it parted with Mike Scioscia after the 2018 season. The Angels have had 11 consecutive losing seasons and 12 straight non-playoff seasons, both the longest active skids in the major leagues.<\/p>\n

The Angels now have MLB\u2019s third current managerial vacancy, all in the AL West. The Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros also parted ways with their managers after the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels have fired manager Kurt Suzuki after he lost 100 games in his only season in charge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,11478,5,8697,14,94042,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,101388,4,34178,6941,69694,3809,24226,48435,41,235,1319],"class_list":["post-837096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-arte-moreno","tag-baseball","tag-decision","tag-game","tag-kroenke-sports","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-major-league-staff","tag-mlb","tag-mozeliak","tag-new-manager","tag-only-season","tag-organization","tag-search","tag-special-assistant","tag-suzuki","tag-team","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117498316267075082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837096","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=837096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}