Joe Maddon

The Los Angeles Angels fired manager Joe Maddon on Tuesday, one day after the team dropped its 12th straight game.

The Angels hired Maddon as their manager in October 2019, a move that was highly celebrated throughout the organization. The Angels began this season 27-17, fueled by a potent offense and encouraging performances by the starting pitchers. The bullpen had a really hard time. Since then, the team has been slowed mostly by a lack of quality pitching and inferior depth throughout its 40-man roster. I would really rely on the sentiments of the coaches and the players." Maddon, 68, was Mike Scioscia's bench coach on the team that won the 2002 World Series, then went on to a highly successful nine-year run with the low-budget Tampa Bay Rays. In 2016, he led the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in more than 100 years.

Veteran skipper, who won a World Series with the Chicago Cubs in 2016, is out in Anaheim with Phil Nevin taking over as interim manager.

He was hopeful the Angels would give him a contract extension this spring.The Angels refused, believing all along they would fire him if they failed to make the playoffs. Yet, after sitting at 24-13 just two weeks ago, they have collapsed, matching their franchise-record losing streak set in 1988. Ironically, Maddon was a candidate for the Phillies job when they hired Girardi, but pulled himself out of the running, interviewing only with the Angels after the Chicago Cubs cut ties with him. This was the second firing of a veteran manager in a week, with Joe Girardi dumped by the Philadelphia Phillies and replaced by interim Rob Thomson. Now, Minasian has a man who should have been hired years ago as manager in Nevin. He was the choice of Tony La Russa and Dave Stewart to replace Chip Hale with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but they were overruled by ownership, too. As their losing streak extended to a franchise record-tying 12 games, the Angels simply didn’t believe they could reach the postseason with Maddon at the helm.

The recent collapse proved too much for a star-studded team with playoff aspirations. Phil Nevin was named the interim manager.

As Minasian has struggled to rebuild — the Angels have not made the playoffs since 2014 — Eppler moved on to the Mets, where he is leading the top team in the National League. Everything seemingly has gone wrong for the Angels during the recent losing streak, from Trout enduring an 0 for 26 slump to third baseman Anthony Rendon landing on the injured list — again — to the team’s pitching staff being wildly inconsistent. The Angels fired Brad Ausmus, who had been with the team for only one year, in order to secure Maddon.

Joe Maddon is out in Anaheim, as the Angels announced Tuesday afternoon he'd been relieved of his managerial duties. Third base coach Phil Nevin will take ...

He managed in the Tigers’ and Diamondbacks’ farm systems for a few seasons, reaching as high as Triple-A in that role. That came on the heels of a four-year run serving as third base coach in the Bronx under Aaron Boone. After the Yankees declined to renew Nevin’s contract last winter, he made the jump to Anaheim and will now get his first shot in a major league manager’s chair. Whether Nevin is in consideration for a permanent position presumably depends on how the team fares over the coming months. All that said, the season certainly isn’t lost for the Halos. Their strong early work served both to illustrate the roster’s capacity for better play — particularly with Ward and Rendon healthy — and bought them enough room in the standings that they’re still right in the thick of the Wild Card race. Nevin earned an All-Star nod during a 2001 campaign with the Padres in which he hit 41 home runs, and he twice earned down-ballot MVP support during his time in San Diego. All told, he collected more than 1100 hits and 200 longballs during his MLB run. Chicago played above .500 ball in all five of Maddon’s years at the helm, a stretch that coincided with four losing seasons for the Angels. One can’t simply attribute the entirety of any team’s underperformance to the manager, and Maddon’s Angels are no exception. After the 2014 season, Maddon and the Rays went their separate ways, and he took over an ascending team on the north side of Chicago. The change comes as the Halos are mired in a disastrous stretch. Joe Maddon is out in Anaheim, as the Angels announced Tuesday afternoon he’d been relieved of his managerial duties. Maddon has been an MLB manager for 17 straight seasons, with his first permanent position coming at the helm of the 2006 Devil Rays. Tampa Bay scuffled through a pair of last-place finishes to start his tenure, but they reeled off six straight winning seasons between 2008-13. A midseason dismissal is certainly not the result the Halos envisioned when they first hired Maddon during the 2019-20 offseason.

The team announced Joe Maddon has been relieved of his duties, and third base coach Phil Nevin will serve as interim manager. Maddon's firing comes on the heels ...

The Angels did not make the postseason under Maddon and the team has made the postseason just once in Trout's 10 full seasons. This is his first MLB managerial job, though he has extensive managerial experience at the Triple-A level, and he has interviewed for several big-league manager positions in recent years. Maddon, 68, was in the final guaranteed year of his contract, which included a club option for 2023. I would really rely on the sentiments of the coaches and the players." Hired prior to the 2020 pandemic season, Maddon went 130-148 (.467) in parts of three seasons in what was technically his third stint as Angels manager. Girardi and Maddon are the first managers fired at midseason since the St. Louis Cardinals fired Mike Matheny in July 2018. His lineup and bullpen decisions left a lot to be desired, especially lately, during the 12-game losing streak. The organization's sense of urgency is apparent in the decision to replace Maddon. The Halos are 1 1/2 games behind the sixth and final American League wild card spot, though there are two teams ahead of them in the standings and three teams within 1 1/2 games behind them. Both teams have obvious roster construction issues, but, like Girardi, Maddon did not seem to do the best he could with the personnel available to him. The 12-game losing streak has been a Murphy's Law losing streak in which anything that can go wrong is going wrong. Mired in the longest single-season losing streak in franchise history, the Los Angeles Angels made a change at manager Tuesday afternoon.

The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak.

Maddon is the second manager to be fired this season. He has never been a manager above the Triple-A level, but he spent four seasons as the New York Yankees’ third base coach before joining Maddon’s staff this season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start this year before their current losing streak began. Los Angeles’ offense, which was among the majors’ best in the first six weeks, has scored only 35 runs during its 12-game losing streak with a minus-43 run differential. The 68-year-old Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season for his self-described dream job. Maddon spent three decades of his career as a player and coach for the Angels before going on to an impressive managerial career that has included three Manager of the Year awards.

It comes as the team is in the midst of a franchise-record 12-game losing streak.

He was hired by the Cubs in 2015 and guided the team to its first World Series title in 108 years in 2016, along with three other playoff appearances. Maddon, 68, was in his third season with the club after being hired in October 2019. He transformed the Tampa Bay Rays from perennial basement-dwellers to contenders, culminating his tenure with an American League pennant in 2008.

Maddon was fired by the Angels on Tuesday amid the team's 12-game losing streak that has seen it fall below .500. The skid has drained just about every drop of ...

When they fired Girardi, the Phillies named Rob Thomson interim manager for the rest of the season. But, as was the case with Joe Girardi in Philadelphia, someone had to be the fall guy for front-office missteps, and that someone was Maddon. Which brings us to what seems to be an obvious pairing for 2023. Just as the Phillies, who also recently fired a Joe after a few disappointing seasons, have plenty of blame to go around, the Angels as an organization have left a lot to be desired, having consistently failed to address its pitching needs and to add the right other pieces to surround its marquee players. Sometimes, the outcome seems obvious. Sometimes, the future seems clear.

El manager de los Angelinos de Los Ángeles Joe Maddon (izquierda) saluda a Shohei Ohtani previo a un juego contra los Azulejos de Toronto, el domingo 29 de mayo ...

En una trayectoria de 19 años como piloto, tiene marca de 1.382-1.216. Han decepcionado pese a que cuentan Mike Trout y Shohei Ohtani, ambos ganadores del premio al Jugador Más Valioso en sus filas. Se han rezagado a 8 juegos y medio del líder Houston en el Oeste de la Liga Americana por culpa del desplome.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels fired manager Joe Maddon on Tuesday with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak.

Maddon is the second manager to be fired this season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start this year before their current losing streak began. He has never been a manager above the Triple-A level, but he spent four seasons as the New York Yankees' third base coach before joining Maddon's staff this season. "There’s ups and downs compounded with how the last 12 days have gone. Los Angeles’ offense, which was among the majors’ best in the first six weeks, has scored only 35 runs during its 12-game losing streak with a minus-43 run differential. Maddon was Scioscia's bench coach during that title season in 2002. Ohtani flourished under Maddon, who prioritized unleashing the Japanese two-way star's talents on both sides of the ball. The Angels were beaten 1-0 in Maddon’s final game by the Red Sox and journeyman starter Michael Wacha, who threw a three-hitter against the Halos’ star-studded lineup Monday night. “The last two weeks have been really tough. The 68-year-old Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season for his self-described dream job. “Looking at the last couple of days is really when I started thinking about making a change. The Angels were leading 6-2 in the eighth inning before Bryce Harper tied it on a grand slam.

ANAHEIM, California -- Los Angelinos de Los Ángeles despidieron el martes al manager Joe Maddon en medio de una racha de 12 derrotas consecutivas.

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Sumidos en medio de una mala racha de 12 derrotas, el equipo de Los Angeles Angels anuncio el despido del mánager Joe Maddon este martes.

Maddon, tres veces Mánager del Año, estaba en su tercera temporada con la organización en la que anteriormente pasó cuatro décadas como jugador y entrenador. Los Angelinos estaban 10 juegos por encima de .500 hace dos semanas, pero desde entonces han caído a 27-29. La racha de 12 derrotas en fila empató un récord de franquicia por una temporada, poniendo a los Angelinos en peligro de perderse la postemporada por octavo año consecutivo a pesar de un campo de postemporada ampliado.

Los Angeles's knee-jerk response to a 12-game losing streak is more of the same impatience exhibited by owner Arte Moreno during his tenure.

The Angels are just 1.5 games out of a playoff spot, and a successful season under interim manager Phil Nevin is still a possibility. A few months later, Scioscia and Stoneman arrived to usher in an era of stability the team hasn’t known since. “Obviously, this is not all Joe’s fault,” Ohtani said, per The Athletic’s Sam Blum. “Players are, myself, in part to blame, because I was underperforming. Along with Minasian, they decided to jerk the wheel once more and send the franchise into a new direction with more than 100 games left in what, not too long ago, was a promising season with yet another impulsive, consequential choice. Apparently, frequent turnover is not among the aspects of the organization that has been identified as needing to be changed. Perhaps the Angels will emerge from their latest state of chaos finally pointed in the right direction. Once a vocal public presence, Moreno has not made many appearances with the media in recent years. Each of the first two GMs post-Stoneman had to operate alongside a manager they did not hire. Minasian is only in his second year with the organization, but that type of impulsive decision-making fits right in line with the club’s recent past. “Joe made the lineup, Joe made the pitching decisions. Since Stoneman left his position following the ‘07 season, the Angels have had four general managers, each of whom had to work under considerable friction with the team’s other influential voices. Two weeks and 12 consecutive losses later, the 68-year-old is gone, the latest knee-jerk move from a franchise defined by them for the better part of the past decade.

David Ross, the Cubs' third-year manager, played his final two seasons for Joe Maddon who favored Ross as his replacement after 2019.

“I have as ton of respect for Joe,” Ross said. “He’s done a lot for me and was a great manager for me,” Ross said. “That’s a sucky thing to hear.

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If you’re hopeful Jo Adell will get more opportunity with Nevin, now is a good time to grab him off the waiver wire. It remains to be seen how much of the problem Maddon was. The Angels (27-29) dropped their 12th straight game Monday night, losing 1-0 to the Red Sox at home.

The Los Angeles Angels fired manager Joe Maddon but still stretched their losing streak to 13 games, matching the worst skid in franchise history.

Maddon is the second manager to be fired this season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start this year before their current losing streak began. He has never been a manager above the Triple-A level, but he spent four seasons as the New York Yankees’ third base coach before joining Maddon’s staff this season. “There’s ups and downs compounded with how the last 12 days have gone. Los Angeles’ offense, which was among the majors’ best in the first six weeks, has scored only 40 runs during its 13-game losing streak and been outscored by 44 runs. The Angels were beaten 1-0 in Maddon’s final game by the Red Sox and journeyman starter Michael Wacha, who threw a three-hitter against the Halos’ star-studded lineup Monday night. “The last two weeks have been really tough. The 68-year-old Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season for his self-described dream job. The Angels tied a club record with their 13th straight loss Tuesday night, falling 6-5 to the Boston Red Sox in 10 innings. “Looking at the last couple of days is really when I started thinking about making a change. The Angels were leading 6-2 in the eighth inning before Bryce Harper tied it on a grand slam. The defeat surpasses the 1988 mark for longest single-season skid in club history.