Angels Front Office Updates
Some promotions and departures of note
Here’s a compilation of some promotions within the Angels baseball operations and player development staff over the last couple months. This is not a comprehensive list.
Baseball Operations Promotions
Connor Moffatt: promoted to Director, Research & Development from Assistant Director, Research & Development
Joe Chernak: promoted to Research & Development Coordinator from Baseball Operations Analyst
Matthew Johnson: promoted to Research & Development Coordinator from Analyst, Research & Development.
Cam Rogers: promoted to Research & Development Coordinator from Analyst, Research & Development.
Max Werner: promoted to Senior Developer, Baseball Systems from Baseball Systems Developer.
Andrew Zenner: promoted to Manager of Baseball Operations from Coordinator of Baseball Operations.
Andrew Hansford: promoted to Baseball Operations Analyst from Assistant Minor League Video Coordinator.
Player Development Promotions
Tripp Norton: promoted to Coordinator, Arizona Operations from Player Development Assistant.
Pietro Oliva: promoted to Assistant Minor League Video Coordinator from Dominican Republic Academy Administration Assistant
Baseball Operations Departures:
Chet Gutwein (Senior Analyst, Research and Development with Angels): hired by Rockies as Lead Analyst, Data Science.
Bill Hezel (Major League Pitching Strategist with Angels): hired by Marlins as Director of Pitching.
Austin Marchesani (Pitching Analyst)
Nick Usoff (Lead Front End Developer, Baseball Systems with Angels)
Notes
The Angels are currently hiring for a Research & Development Analyst position and a Baseball Systems Developer position.
As Perry Minasian told the media at the Winter Meetings, David Haynes (formerly Director, Player Procurement) and Joey Prebynski (formerly Director, Player Development) were promoted to Assistant GM positions.
It seems as if the Angels are going to have a similar front office headcount as last season. They’ve typically kept their baseball ops headcount to ~45 in recent years, which places them in the bottom five of MLB teams.