The angels have been without manager Ron Washington since the end of June after he left the team on medical leave, and he revealed to reporters last month that he recovered from four -fold bypass operation. Even despite the recovery of a great surgery, the 73-year-old still hopes to manage the angels in 2026. Washington confirmed that desire in a conversation with a conversation Sam Blum of athleticsWho today reports that Washington has not yet spoken with Halos owner Arte Moreno about his future, but that this hopes to do this in the coming days.
“I just want to sit down and talk to him,” Washington told Blum van Moreno. “I let them decide if I am the man who leads the club.”
Washington added that he did not talk to Club GM Perry Minasian about his future with the club. The halos have a club option at Washington’s services for the 2026 season, while Blum notes that Minasian himself has a year left on his contract with Anaheim. According to Blum, much of the club’s leadership is confronted with uncertainty on the way to the last days of the regular season, because interim manager Ray Montgomery has also expressed uncertainty about his future in the organization, but remains in the mix to manage the team in 2026.
There are a number of factors in the game that can weigh on Moreno’s spirit while he decides in which direction the club. The most obvious, perhaps the long play -off drought and disappointing results of the team in recent years. The Angels have 88 losses with two more games that can still be go in the 2025 season, and those performance is on the heels of last year’s 99-Loss campaign and back-to-back 89-loss seasons in 2022 and ’23. For years, the angels have hung hope on the idea that a healthy season for Mike Forel Could help them return to October, but this year Trout played in 128 games and produced results that are less than fantastic because of his elevated standards, even if he generally remains an above -average bat.
Perhaps Trout can build on this year and hand in a season more like his vintage, MVP-Kaliber versions from ten years ago in 2026. However, if failure that the angels have to change at least if they go back to the playoffs for the first year, minasic to shake up the organization and get new votes. That said, there are a few factors in the game that create an argument to stick to the status quo.
The team in particular did better than this record would suggest when Washington was actually at the helm of the club. He took medical leave when the club had a record of 40-40 and was only one game behind an already Wild Card place. It is difficult to claim that the bad record of the team is at the feet of Washington this year when he was away from the organization for their 25-39 stumbling after the All-Star break. Moreover, Blum suggests that Moreno may not be interested in bringing in new leaders for the organization on multi -year agreements with a likely exclusion on the horizon after the 2026 season.
That may be due to financial reasons, because a lockout that would result in the season in cancellation and income lost, but another factor could be the uncertainty around the landscape of the game when the dust settles in the next round of collective negotiations. If a salary limit is introduced, as a whisper around baseball has indicated that MLB hopes to reach, that would certainly have considerable consequences about how teams run their business everywhere in the competition. Knowing what kind of financial system MLB will work for the near future would certainly be useful if they decide who is most suitable to lead the organization for what the rest of the decade or longer could be.
Another factor, Blum writes, figures are the health of Washington. Washington has been the oldest manager in the Majors for a few years. The 70-year-old Rangers-skipper Bruce Bochy is the only other Septuagenarian who is currently leading a dugout, although Brian Snitker of Atlanta will celebrate his 70th birthday in October and has not yet made a decision about his future after the 2025 campaign. Between the age of Washington and that he will be in the next year’s club that he will be both of them as the club that is both that year as the club that is both that that year as the club that he is as the club as the club that is both of them as the club. Hang up with a difficult schedule and a lot of responsibility such as that of a big league manager.
Despite those possible worries, Blum notes that Washington is currently not interested in going to a front office role. He called himself one “Hands-on man” Who would rather cooperate directly with the players with Blum and noted that he was convinced that he would work in that role for one of the organizations of the competition next year, whether that is a management job or a different role. Besides his stints who manage the Rangers and Angels, Washington spent seven years as the third base coach of the Braves and won a World Series with the organization in 2021.
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