The Angels have lost a senior advisor to the baseball operations staff, someone who had been helping look for a new general manager. Tony La Russa, hired less than a year ago to provide counsel to then-GM Billy Eppler and others, was named Thursday as the new manager of the Chicago White Sox. La Russa, 76, departs Anaheim after spending the beginning of October assisting Angels president John Carpino identify candidates for the team’s fourth GM in 13 years. Advertisement“I think we’re open to everything,” Carpino said Sept. 30 when asked what the Angels want in a general manager after they fired Eppler. During 59 years in pro baseball, La Russa won three World Series titles as a manager (1989 in Oakland and 2006 and 2011 in St. Louis) and another as an executive (2018 in Boston).

Source: Los Angeles Times October 29, 2020 19:06 UTC