Brady Anderson, former MLB All-Star, has agreed to join the Los Angeles Angels as their new hitting coach, the team confirmed this Friday.
Anderson, who was a prominent member of the Baltimore Orioles and last played in 2002, will take on his first official coaching position. He will work alongside John Mabry, a more experienced batting coach, who has been hired as his assistant.
Both Anderson, 61, and Mabry, 55, join the team of new manager Kurt Suzuki, who received a one-year contract. The Angels have also hired John Gibbons as bench coach, Mike Maddux as pitching coach, Adam Eaton as first base coach, Keith Johnson as third base coach, Max Stassi as catching coach, and Andy Schatzley as infield coach.
Anderson, who played as an outfielder with the Orioles from 1988 to 2001, had his best season in 1996, batting .297 with 110 RBIs and 50 home runs, a franchise record at the time. He didn’t come close to that figure in his last five seasons with the Orioles.
A little more than 10 years after his retirement, Anderson joined the Orioles’ board of directors, serving as one of its key decision-makers, holding the position of vice president of baseball operations from 2013 to 2018.
However, Anderson’s role diminished after the hiring of Mike Elias as general manager in November 2018, and he left the organization at the end of the following season. Anderson has not been affiliated with a Major League team since then.
Mabry played 14 years in the Major Leagues, from 1994 to 2007, and has been part of the coaching staff of four other organizations, including the St. Louis Cardinals, the Kansas City Royals, the Miami Marlins and, most recently, the Orioles, with whom he served as a senior advisor last season.
