Overview
- The Angels fired general manager Perry Minasian on Friday and named John Mozeliak as a baseball operations consultant who will serve as interim general manager.
- Mozeliak spent roughly three decades with the St. Louis Cardinals including 18 years running baseball operations and will oversee day-to-day work, refine strategy, and help find a full-time GM.
- Los Angeles enters the change with a 34–48 record and baseball’s longest active playoff drought, and the team’s farm system remains widely regarded as one of the weakest in MLB.
- Minasian had been GM since November 2020, never led the club to higher than third place in the AL West, and was in the final guaranteed year of his contract at the time of his dismissal.
- The hire signals a push to shore up player development and organizational structure, and the next steps to watch are the club’s plan for a permanent GM, changes to the farm system approach, and any roster moves Mozeliak recommends.