Overview
- Mozeliak announced promotions of Matt Swanson and Michael Lord to assistant general manager roles and dismissed three area scouts, three crosscheckers and did not renew Ray Montgomery’s contract, moves reported across outlets on Monday and Tuesday.
- Swanson now oversees international, professional and amateur scouting and Lord leads research and development, creating a single, vertically aligned approach to player acquisition.
- Mozeliak convened a new baseball-operations leadership group and gave department heads roughly four weeks to evaluate needs and make staffing and process recommendations.
- He has not begun interviewing candidates for a permanent general manager and remains undecided about his own contract, which runs through December.
- On the field, the Angels have another losing season and weak offense, so Mozeliak traded major-league pieces and shifted the draft to 'best available' to improve a depleted farm system even as short-term major-league gains remain uncertain.