So after the 2018 season ends, what happens next?

[Kevin]

We talk a lot about Trout and 2020 or when the Angels will be competitive again but what happens after the 2018 season ends?

All jokes aside about another ten year extension, will Mike be given another contract? Will he finally move on? If so, who would you like to replace him? I'm not sure who will even be available but whatever happens, I believe it could be one of the more important moves the organization makes in the next three years. 

[Stradling]

I think that question will be answered his off season.  Very seldom does a team let a long tenured manager enter the final year of his contract with uncertainty.  They will probably either give him an extension or they will "mutuallly" part ways after the season.  I could see them giving him another year or two, whatever gets him to 20 years, but I don't think we will see him get another 5 years or anything like that.  Granted this is pure speculation on my part.  

[Jason]

12 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I think that question will be answered his off season.  Very seldom does a team let a long tenured manager enter the final year of his contract with uncertainty.  They will probably either give him an extension or they will "mutuallly" part ways after the season.  I could see them giving him another year or two, whatever gets him to 20 years, but I don't think we will see him get another 5 years or anything like that.  Granted this is pure speculation on my part.  

Angelswin will be amusing at that time

[IEAngelsfan]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

Angelswin will be amusing at that time

AnaheimBob may self combust.

[Stradling]

Win/Win

[Angel Oracle]

Another season after 2018 takes Sosh to where only four other managers have ever gone: manage one team for at least 20 seasons.

Mack, McGraw, Alston, and Cox

[fan_since79]

I'm getting really tired of the decades-after-decades of Scioscia.

I'm sorry, but it's time for a change.

 

[Troll Daddy]

I don't mind having a new manager ... although, getting a better manager is highly unlikely. 

[disarcina]

I think we're going to see Arte selling the team -- if not as soon as 2018 perhaps by 2020 --

I think the thrill of owning an MLB team has worn off/ thin for Arte.......and how he's a sole proprietor type competing against the corporate conglomerates -- can't be a whole lot of fun.........and then there's his good pals over at the City of Anaheim.....

so by about 2020 I see a whole new crew -- new owner, new front office and new manager.........

[Homebrewer]

A couple of the starters might be close to coming off the DL by then.

[fan_since79]

How about a new cleanup hitter?

I'm sorry, but Albert in the #4 spot through 2021? Yikes.

 

[arch stanton]

Do people really follow baseball just to create new things to worry about?

[Homebrewer]

11 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

Do people really follow baseball just to create new things to worry about?

[tomsred]

3 hours ago, IEAngelsfan said:

AnaheimBob may self combust.

Does that mean his ability to communicate across space and time on all things Angels is gone forever, .....that's a good thing right?

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

How about a new cleanup hitter?

I'm sorry, but Albert in the #4 spot through 2021? Yikes.

 

I would rather hear Buttercup between every inning.

[Docwaukee]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

I don't mind having a new manager ... although, getting a better manager is highly unlikely. 

well put.  Mike is a very good manager.  Does well with the x's and o's.  Not perfect by any stretch but better than most I have observed.  His players like him for the most part.  

No manager can win without talent and there is definitely a formula of team construction that helps him succeed.  Those teams have been able to get more wins than would be expected in most cases.  

Mike won't leave or be let go because he's not a good manager, but only if he ceases to be a good fit for this org and their philosophy going forward.  Even though the public love fest between him and Eppler is fairly contrived as far as I'm concerned, there does appear to be a certain level of 'homeostasis' achieved relative to the dynamic.  

It certainly does feel like Mike is truly functioning in more of a managerial role as of late as opposed to more of a hybrid manager and front office guy.  

I have no doubt that he wields more power than most if not all managers in baseball but the current dynamic seems to be working.  

Because Eppler seems to have significant control over player personnel and development, the most important thing about the end of the 2018 season isn't going to be whether Scioscia stays or moves on but whether Eppler's process is working.  That's 1.5 more seasons of minor league play, another draft, and an ongoing influx of international signings as well as trades, and minor league free agent pickups.  At some point, that is going to have to translate into more wins on field and the only way to have that happen is if the players at the major league level get better.  The process will never be 'complete', but we'll have a much better idea of where things are going to be by then.  Whether some of our young pitchers can shake the injury bug.  Whether some of our current prospects are going to translate to the majors.  

One could almost conclude that Scioscia either gravitated or was forced into a more prominent role beyond being a manager because of Reagins ineptitude and Arte's inappropriate allocation of resources.  And slowly but surely, Eppler has changed that.  

Talent will determine what happens after 2018.  Scioscia has a hand in that, but by and large it will be Eppler and the rest of his team who determine where we are going.   

[Inside Pitch]

8 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

there does appear to be a certain level of 'homeostasis' achieved relative to the dynamic.  

.......  not that there is anything wrong with that.....

[tdawg87]

Another 10 year extension would bring the lolz.

[Docwaukee]

45 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

.......  not that there is anything wrong with that.....

I don't care if you putt from the rough.  

[Troll Daddy]

They prepare for 2019 is what's next

[Slegnaac]

17 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Another season after 2018 takes Sosh to where only four other managers have ever gone: manage one team for at least 20 seasons.

Mack, McGraw, Alston, and Cox

Lasorda?

[Junkballer]

17 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Another season after 2018 takes Sosh to where only four other managers have ever gone: manage one team for at least 20 seasons.

Mack, McGraw, Alston, and Cox

More importantly, he will have racked up more commuter miles than any manager in history.  They'll have to induct his carbon footprint into the HOF.

[Angel Oracle]

2 hours ago, Slegnaac said:

Lasorda?

Nineteen and a half seasons (1977 through first half of 1996), as Bill Russell took over halfway through 1996

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Junkballer said:

More importantly, he will have racked up more commuter miles than any manager in history.  They'll have to induct his carbon footprint into the HOF.

Think about it, all of those seasons commuting at least 140 miles round trip at least 80 times per season.

[Dtwncbad]

Is the manager position part of the entertainment package you are selling?

I know having a good manager is important, and stability is also important.  But you can't get stale either.

Scioscia has been here long enough.  If nothing else, I am just bored with him.

I don't believe in a revolving door annually for the manager but a new one every 5-7 years seems healthy to me.

18 years with one manager would also be fine if the team was collecting poatseason series trophies.

It's time for a change.  And that doesn't mean I hate Scioscia or that I think he has been terrible.

Good or bad, that is a long enough run.