Both Ron Washington and Ray Montgomery have been deported from the manager’s office in Anaheim, because the Angels are planning to hire a new manager instead of using their manager or interim manager of this season to return in 2026. Most attention is aimed at the candidate of the candidate Albert Pujols so far, but Jeff Fletcher from the Orange County Register reported yesterday that another expected candidate is Torii Hunter.
Hunter, 50, played 19 seasons in the Majors. He made the All-Star game five times, won nine Gold Glove Awards for his work in the Outfield and enjoyed an impressive five-year-old run with the Angels from 2008 to 2012, where he .286/.352/.462 in 713 competitions. Hunter is a candidate for the job, is hardly a surprise, given that he was reportedly in the mix for the track after the 2023 season before Washington was hired. At that time, Bob Nightengale of the US today marked hunter as “Considered huge” By club owner Arte Moreno, who was enough to make him an option, even despite his lack of coaching experience at a time when the angels were specifically aimed at bringing a more experienced voice at that time.
Although Hunter eventually did not eventually land, that did not end the organization’s interest to bring him into the fold. They chased him as a potential member of the coaching staff of Washington, and although he refused to be eligible for that role, he was hired in April 2024 as a special assistant for Minasian. He has stayed in the organization since then, and the relationship that has made a role with Minasian in the past two years, despite his status as a lame -a hunter process in renting the accepting process as a lame -a head process as a lame -duck in the past two years, he has a lame -duck in the course of the Halen in the past two years.
Nevertheless, it must be reminded that Pujols is held in a similar way by Moreno and is also employed by the organization as a result of his ten -year personal service contract with the club signed as a player at the time of his free agency. Some reporting has gone as far as suggests that it might be the decision of the Hall of Famer to make whether or not he acts as the next manager of Anaheim. Even with Pujols who pop up like an early favorite, that does not mean that he is a lock to be in the Dugout next year. There is certainly a chance that someone with Pujols’s profile prefers a team with stronger prospects than the Angels currently coming from their tenth consecutive sub -.500 season. The turnover percentage of angel managers can also be a concern. After all, the team played five managers (Brad AusmusJoe Maddon, Phil Nevin, Washington and Montgomery) in the last seven years since Mike Scioscia left the club after the 2019 season.
Even apart from those potential concerns about the end of Pujols, it is not impossible to imagine that GM Perry Minasian insists on another candidate or even Moreno himself has a change in heart. All this means to keep other candidates in mind for the position is wise, and Hunter has many of the same qualities that Pujols have made the early favorite for the job. Given that, it is logical that Hunter could be in a strong position to land the action if Pujols would refuse to be taken into consideration. What is more, every indication indicates that Hunter is interested in both managing in general and the angels specifically. He not only interviewed the role in 2023, but also told reporters when he enjoyed the “challenge” To help the angel franchise to turn.
On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that Hunter is demonstrably connected even more to the Twins organization than with the Angels after playing 12 seasons in Minnesota. The twins also have a management opening after their decision to dismiss Rocco BaldelliAnd although there is no solid connection between Hunter and that action, it would certainly be worth considering from Hunter’s perspective. The enormous sale of the organization last summer would certainly offer a challenge if Hunter is looking for one, but the history of the team suggests that twin managers have more job security than in Anaheim. Every manager in Minnesota in the last 35 years has had at least four full seasons at work to prove itself, while Scioscia is the only angelic skipper since inaugural manager Bill Rigney gets the same chance.
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