Yes, you read that right, the Angels fired Mike Maddux, one of the best pitching coaches in MLB, for some inexcusable reason. No one knows why, fans already blaming Kurt Suzuki. Yes, Passan says results are not great, but this has been the best Angels rotation in a long time, filled mostly with iffy talent and rookies. You cannot expect miracles, especially after trading 5 pitchers at the trade deadline.
Watch as any smart team picks him up. It was a miracle he even signed with the Angels to begin with. Arte Moreno has to go, this is a devastating loss for the franchise and one that can delay a rebuilding team’s success by years. If it was that Kurt hated him, or that Arte was impatient or something else stupid, it is infuriating that Kurt wasn’t fired instead.
This team continues to be an absolute embarrassment to Baseball as a whole, not having even a winning season since 2015 and somehow getting worse almost every year. Really the only good reason why Maddux and the rest of the pitching staff was fired is if they all wanted to be. And that is the only damn hope we could have.
