{"id":130899,"date":"2026-08-11T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/angels-restructure-pitching-staff-following-mike-madduxs-departure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:00:13","slug":"angels-restructure-pitching-staff-following-mike-madduxs-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/angels-restructure-pitching-staff-following-mike-madduxs-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels restructure pitching staff following Mike Maddux&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pitching restructuring: The Angels announce changes to their coaching staff<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Los Angeles Angels organization has begun a transformation process in its pitching staff. This Tuesday, the team made official the departure of three key members of its coaching staff: pitching coach Mike Maddux, bullpen coach Dom Chiti, and assistant pitching coach Darryl Scott.<\/p>\n\n<p>These moves, which seek to give the team a fresh start, were confirmed by John Mozeliak, the franchise&#8217;s baseball operations consultant. As he detailed, the decision was made after a deep analysis together with manager Kurt Suzuki, with the goal of redefining the strategy and the work program for the pitchers.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New interim leadership<\/h2>\n\n<p>Following the departure of the aforementioned coaches, the team has appointed internal figures to assume responsibilities on an interim basis for the remainder of the campaign:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tim Leveque: Will assume the role of pitching coach. Leveque arrived at the organization this year after an extensive two-decade career with the St. Louis Cardinals and had been serving as a coach for the Double-A team, Rocket City.<\/li><li>Michael Wuertz: Will occupy the position of bullpen coach. Wuertz has eleven years of experience within the Angels and was recently serving as assistant pitching coordinator in the minor leagues.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We felt it was best to make a change. With seven weeks left in the season, we will use this time to evaluate the necessary measures that will allow us to strengthen our pitching system.<\/p><cite>John Mozeliak, Angels baseball operations consultant.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>With this adjustment, the Angels&#8217; management seeks not only to close the current season in the best way possible, but also to lay the foundations for a more solid and efficient pitching structure for the future of the organization.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitching restructuring: The Angels announce changes to their coaching staff The Los Angeles Angels organization has begun a transformation process in its pitching staff. This Tuesday, the team made official the departure of three key members of its coaching staff: pitching coach Mike Maddux, bullpen coach Dom Chiti, and assistant pitching coach Darryl Scott. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[13078,88,344,1150],"class_list":{"0":"post-130899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-angelenos","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pitching"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}