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LA Angels Wednesday News Crash: New Manager Smell

October 22, 2025

Morning Angels fans. No Baseball until Friday. Have some links.

Angels News

Angels got a new manager. Kurt Suzuki. Any experience? NOPE. But he was a special assistant to Perry AND was a catcher. So… it’s something? He’s a yes man isn’t he…

Oh and the trial is still on for Skaggs’s family v Angels Baseball. And Mike Trout had to testify, it is in a long thread, and you can read about it here. He did say that he thought Eric Kay has a drug problem and confronted him about it, as well as lots of other stuff. In short, he is not proud of some of the clubhouse stuff in the past, and some of the antics are… disgusting, so read at your own risk.

Around Baseball

Still waiting for the World Series to start in Toronto for Dodgers at Blue Jays. So nothing much besides the glazing of the 2 teams as of now. That ALCS game 7 did bring in a lot of viewers. 6 Million.

For the Blue Jays, their last WS was in 1993. Most of their roster wasn’t even alive.

In non WS news, there is an Expos Documentary on Netflix. So if someone watched it, please answer down below how good it was.

Oh yeah, and there will be a Women’s Baseball League. WPBL. Starts 2026. Only 4 teams? And in LA, SF, NY, and Boston? Seems a bit spread out…

Anything I missed? Post below for upvotes!

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Angelz4ever

1 hour ago

I support Kurt Suzuki as the Halos 2026 season manager.

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Fansince1971

1 hour ago

One of the things that I have noticed about the Angels’ Org is that the only thing they do well is PR – aka words. Every season and every hire starts with the right words and the faithful accept these words without question.

There is an old saying “deeds not words”. The Angels need to be less focused on saying the right things and more focused on doing them.

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Roy Hobbs

26 minutes ago

Reply to Fansince1971

I was not necessarily a Washington fan, but I do believe he was attempting to do all the right things and was not a limiting factor in their success. I think over time he became frustrated with Perry and what Perry was giving him to work with.

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Roy Hobbs

23 minutes ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

He did however assemble his coaching staff, which other than Enright, was not very good.

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FungoAle

4 minutes ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Not ready to push Enright overboard but…

Starting rotation ERA – 28th
Bullpen ERA – 28th

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Fansince1971

2 minutes ago

Reply to Roy Hobbs

Wash was meh and I felt that way from the beginning. Same with Suzuki. These opinions are tempered by my stronger belief that a field manager might mean, at most, 5% to the total success of a team. So, for Perry to make such a big deal publicly about getting the hire “right” makes me chuckle. He should be focusing those efforts and mindspace on the roster.

I think it is pretty clear what Arte’s main criteria for a field manager – someone who will be somewhat acceptable from a PR basis who can be gotten for the least amount of money possible. Certainly, Suzuki (a first time manager) was willing to take far less money to get his shot at a new career managing. I mean it is pretty obvious, right? Just look at Arte’s first choice (Pujols) who was too expensive and the contract talks ended.

Given my belief regarding the minimal impact of a field manager, I actually support the decision not to spend too much of the budget on that individual. Particularly with the budget limitations Arte has apparently imposed on signing players.

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FungoAle

9 minutes ago

Reply to Fansince1971

“Details, playing baseball the right way…” wasn’t that Washington’s declaration when he came onboard? Too far back to remember Maddon’s presser but I do recall he was just glazing everyone. Nevin was just a plug-in interim.

It all sounds good in October but the Angels are going to have to prove it to me. This is a fundamentally/details flawed team with a lot to overcome.

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GrandpaBaseball

1 hour ago

What is impressive to me is that with 30 existing teams in MLB how many fans don’t know who all the players are in their own divisions are. This maybe because real fans don’t go on the internet to look at box scores like we did when I was younger to ck box scores. Plus, the fact that there are already to many teams playing to know all the players and their stats.

Has baseball fixed the A’s and making it work in Vegas? Or have the two Florida teams found a way to stay in Florida with low attendance? What happens to divisional play with 2 additional teams. So far MLB has followed the ways of the NFL and seem happy with the results and will do away with the two-league concept and change to conferences and move to one MVP-CY-ROY, etc. Time will tell.

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Angels2020Champs

1 hour ago

Expos doc is just ok. Spent a lot of time in Montreal/Québec between 2001-2005. Lack of business investment and lack of fan investment are the two main reasons the Expos left. I’ve seen Canadians v Kings games in Montreal during that time and been there for baseball season, not once did anyone want to go see an Expo game.

In fact, montrealer’s were/are embarrassed by Stade Olympique (absurdly high cost for ‘76 Olympics and wasn’t even complete until a decade later; wasn’t paid off until 30 years later in 2006 because of a not popular cigarette tax since they love to smoke em if they got em, the “retractable” roof was opened only 88 times in total, it would take $500-$700 million to demolish today due to the pretreated concrete/rebar used, etc).

Overall a total embarrassment. Montreal doesn’t deserve baseball. Had it for 36 years, made the playoffs once (in a strike shortened season), and couldn’t support the team financially.

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GrandpaBaseball

1 hour ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

I read recently that Nashville and Salt Lake City are the front runners for expansion in MLB. I have relatives in the Buffalo New York area that like to visit Toronto for games there. But I would add that NFL and NHL are more popular in western NY than baseball in Canada.

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Angels2020Champs

1 hour ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

I’d go see baseball games in both those cities… Portland or charlotte, not so much.

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Angelz4ever

1 hour ago

Reply to Angels2020Champs

Yep, Montreal is not a baseball town, although some stellar players trod that deplorable artificial turf.

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steelgolf

2 hours ago

Depending on where in LA the WPBL plays, I think I will attend a couple of games with my family.

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GrandpaBaseball

1 hour ago

Reply to steelgolf

The girls will most likely will hit better than they do trying to hit those fastball softballs. 😆

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GrandpaBaseball

3 hours ago

Why so skeptical about our new manager? Suzuki will do as well as anybody else on earth could do for this screwed up franchise. Why not support Kurt? There are a whole lot of other parts of this equation that need fixing before we worry about who the manager is, ditto for coaches. It does take a huge leap before we should consider the ’26 Angels as contenders for a playoff spot.

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steelgolf

2 hours ago

Reply to GrandpaBaseball

I’m 100% fine with Suzuki leading the team, to yet another 72 to 75 win season, that is no fault of his. He will work hard to make the team better. If he can lead the team to 5% to 10% less strikeouts he will be a hero.

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Roy Hobbs

33 minutes ago

Reply to steelgolf

He’s a good guy with a solid baseball reputation, but all the hires before him said the same stuff. I am interested in see something different. If we just roll the same players out with the same line up and execution, we’ll get the same results. I would like to see change of some kind that results in improvement in execution.