Angels hire Joe Maddon as manager
The Angels have been to the playoffs one time in the last decade, an anti-climactic three-game stint in 2014 that saw star Mike Trout held to one hit. Despite Trout’s unrelenting dominance in the time that has passed since that demoralizing series sweep, the Angels have experienced four losing seasons in the last five years.
Now Maddon is coming home. He left Anaheim to become manager of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2006, three decades after beginning his professional career as a catcher in the Angels minor league system in 1975. He moved into scouting for the Angels in 1980, spent the 14 seasons that followed as a minor league manager and coach, and was promoted to the major league coaching staff in 1994. As Angels managers were replaced, Maddon was a mainstay.
In comes Maddon, 65, a man as highly regarded for his embrace of modern baseball as for his quirky and effective leadership styles. Only three times have Maddon-led teams finished with fewer than 84 wins — his first two seasons in Tampa Bay, where the then-Devil Rays twice lost more than 95 games, and the 77-win Rays in 2014.
Maddon transformed a team that had finished fifth in the NL Central for five consecutive years into a perennial postseason contender. With a nucleus featuring future MVP candidates Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez and the 2016 award-winner Kris Bryant, the Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908 in a six-game triumph over the Cleveland Indians two years and one day after Maddon was hired.
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