The Los Angeles Angels’ ownership change is moving faster than expected, and the switch could happen before the month is out.
Stan Kroenke was initially set to take over after the first of the year, but Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register reported that the timeline has been pushed up. According to Fletcher, control is now likely to be handed over later this month, with the owner’s vote scheduled for sometime during the week of Nov. 16.
That timing lines up with the MLB owners meetings, which are set for Nov. 17-19 in New York. The vote for Kroenke is expected to be routine, especially with reports placing his net worth at approximately $27.6 billion.
Interim GM John Mozeliak is still the one speaking publicly for now, though that arrangement may not last much longer.
“We’re going to wait on the vote, and once the vote happens there will be an aggressive pursuit,” Mozeliak said, referring to moves and changes that could be made.
The calendar gets a little messy from there. The GM meetings begin next week on Nov. 9, and multiple reports say deals could start getting done there, with a possible “flurry of free agent activity” and groundwork laid for announcements that might follow at the owners meetings.
Mozeliak is expected to be “collecting information” at the GM meetings, according to Fletcher, but he also said KSE, the formal name of Kroenke’s sports group, “will be in the lead.”
How long Mozeliak remains in that role is still an open question. He was installed by soon-to-be former owner Arte Moreno, and Kroenke has already moved quickly to pass on the idea of keeping the interim GM beyond his current contract, which runs through December.
At this point, it’s difficult to picture Kroenke sending Mozeliak to the GM meetings as anything more than a placeholder. The next step should bring some clarity on who will actually be representing the new ownership group.
That could mean one of two things: Kroenke names someone from his group to attend and possibly take part in the GM meetings, or he moves straight to naming a real GM or a top assistant as the first piece of the front office buildout.
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