The Angels went 7-18 in September and finished 37 games behind the AL West champion Houston Astros. But Los Angeles’ AL wild card hopes abruptly fell apart in late July with a 2-5 homestand against AL cellar-dwellers Baltimore and Detroit, starting with a 16-inning loss to the Orioles that depleted their pitching staff. The Angels went 12-6 immediately after Skaggs’ death on July 1, improving to 54-49 while rallying together in the wake of their well-liked starting pitcher’s sudden death. He did all of those things while maintaining an apparently strong relationship with Trout and his other players, but the results never showed up. Those types of decisions are not in my control, so I don’t worry too much about them.”Īusmus was hired to provide a fresh voice to the Angels after nearly two decades under Scioscia while incorporating new-school strategies in analytics and player management. You learn to take it with a grain of salt. There was a point in 2015 in Detroit, my second year there, it came out I was being fired, and (I) was there two more years.
… To be honest with you, I’ve learned to shrug those things off. He was Scioscia’s bench coach for six seasons, winning a World Series ring along the way, before he left to manage the Tampa Bay Rays.Īusmus on Sunday acknowledged he had heard the rumors linking Maddon, who has said he still owns a home near Anaheim, to an Angels return. The 65-year-old Maddon spent 31 years in the Angels organization, starting as a catcher and logging lengthy assignments as a minor league manager and a major league assistant coach, along with two stints as the Angels’ interim manager. The Cubs’ only World Series-winning manager of the past century decided to leave the club by mutual agreement last week. Rumors began to swirl about Ausmus’ job security last week while Maddon’s future was being debated in Chicago. Despite the majors’ ninth-largest payroll this season at $164.4 million and the ideal franchise cornerstone in Trout, Los Angeles has made the playoffs just once in the past decade and hasn’t won a postseason game since 2009. The 50-year-old Ausmus was unable to stop the Angels’ streak of five straight non-playoff seasons and four straight losing records during the prime of AL MVP favorite Mike Trout’s career. “He navigated this franchise through one of its most difficult seasons with class and professionalism.”Įppler and Ausmus didn’t immediately return phone messages seeking comment. “I want to thank Brad for his hard work and dedication to this organization over the last two seasons as both a special assistant and a manager,” Eppler said in a statement. Only five major league regulars made it through the entire season without going on the injured list. Beset by injuries and tragedy, Ausmus’ team struggled for nearly every month of the summer, except for a burst of inspired play through its grief over the midseason death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in a hotel room in Texas.
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