On Friday, the Angels fired general manager Perry Minasian midway through the executive’s sixth season leading the team’s front office. The baseball world met the announcement with a relatively muted response, in part due to its timing (a classic Friday news dump) and its inevitability.
Minasian was in the final year of his contract, and with the Angels comfortably in last place and pacing for their 11th straight losing season, such a change was only a matter of time. So the organization pulled the ripcord now, two weeks ahead of the MLB draft and five weeks before the trade deadline.
