As they look to avoid wasting another prime year of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Angels have decided to make a change at manager.
The Angels, in the midst of a 12-game losing streak, announced Tuesday afternoon that they have fired manager Joe Maddon. Third base coach and former San Diego Padres' slugger Phil Nevin will take over as the interim manager.
This outcome would have been hard to imagine after the Angels went 14-8 in April, but since then, they've gone 13-21. At 27-29, the Angels are 8 1/2 games back of the Houston Astros in the American League West.
While Mike Trout snapped career-worst his 0-for-26 slump Monday evening, the Angels still lost 1-0 to the Boston Red Sox.
That came a day after the Angels lost a heart-breaking game to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, with rookie Bryson Stott hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Phillies, who fired Joe Girardi last Friday, proceeded to sweep the Angels in their first series under interim manager Rob Thomson.
If this is it for Maddon, 68, as a manager, he's had a pretty incredible run. While things didn't work out as the manager of the Angels, Maddon guided both the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs to World Series appearances, with the Cubs snapping a 108-year World Series drought in 2016.
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