The Angels are sitting in a strange place right now, and that uncertainty has opened the door to an unexpected possibility: Kurt Suzuki could stick around.
Los Angeles has a new owner, an interim GM and a manager who came in as a rookie under a former front office. That’s already a messy setup, and it has left the club in a kind of baseball limbo.
What makes this even more surprising is that current GM John Mozeliak is now talking like Suzuki’s future is still very much in play. At one point, most people assumed the standard cleanup move would be a firing shortly after the season. Instead, Mozeliak has kept backing the manager.
Back in August, Mozeliak had this to say in comments reported by Sam Blum and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic:
“This is a difficult year. There are definitely challenges,” Mozeliak said in a piece written by Sam Blum and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
“I just appreciate that he wants to try to do things to move this forward. I have a lot of empathy for that, and I have a lot of gratitude for that.
I think those are important traits.”
The praise didn’t stop there. This week, even with the Angels sitting at 56-90, Mozeliak again spoke positively about Suzuki and acknowledged the need to sort out his future.
“Obviously, we’re going to have to address that at some point,” Mozeliak said about Suzuki’s future. “I need some guidance on expectations.
But I will say this: I’ve really enjoyed working with him. I find him very impressive.
It’s always hard to judge managers, especially when your team is struggling. But there’s a lot going on down there, and I think overall he’s making the best of it.”
The Athletic’s writers described Suzuki internally as “a consistent and positive presence whom the players admire,” and said he has handled what they called a “cluster of chaos.”
Suzuki, for his part, didn’t sound like a man looking to go anywhere.
“I love it here,” Suzuki said. “I love doing what I’m doing.”
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