Joe Maddon has offered his version of how his Angels tenure came to an unceremonious end
‘s Tom Verducci—Maddon detailed his relationship with Angels general manager Perry Minasian, which he says reached a breaking point on May 9 when Minasian broke a cardinal rule by calling down to the dugout mid-game and instructing Maddon to remove The divide between old and new, manager and front office, data and art, Maddon and Minasian, reached a boiling point on May 9. The Angels had just scored five runs in the seventh inning against the Rays to turn a 6–3 lead into an 11–3 blowout.
To Maddon, Minasian broke a sacred code. The GM had called the dugout during a game to dictate strategy to the manager—a proven, veteran manager at that. To Minasian, he simply was deploying the power given to this generation of executives. Nothing was sacred. Nothing was out of bounds.
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