The Angels are hiring Brady Anderson as hitting coach and John Mabry as an assistant hitting coach, relays Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register. A three-time All-Star who played 15 seasons in the majors, Anderson gets his first major league coaching position.
Anderson, 61, spent 14 years with the Orioles. He’s best known for his 50-homer season in 1996 but was consistently a very good player from 1992-99. He hit 210 career homers with a .256/.362/.425 batting line in more than 1800 games. Anderson recorded 1661 hits and stole 315 bases.
A little over a decade after his playing career concluded, Anderson was hired as Baltimore’s vice president of baseball operations. He held that position from 2013-19 until stepping down after one season under Mike Elias. Anderson had played a significant front office role under prior GM Dan Duquette but reportedly had a different vision from the one Elias brought to the front office. Anderson has not worked in affiliated ball since moving on from the Orioles.
That makes it important to have an experienced voice as his assistant. The 55-year-old Mabry certainly qualifies. He has worked on MLB staffs dating back to 2012 after a 14-year big league playing career. Mabry has been a lead hitting coach with the Cardinals and Marlins and spent the ’25 season on Brandon Hyde’s staff in Baltimore as a senior advisor.
Anderson and Mabry will work with an offense that finished 25th in scoring this year. The Halos had an MLB-high 27.1% strikeout rate and a .225 batting average that was worst in the league. Their .298 on-base percentage was better only than those of the Rockies and Guardians, while they were middle of the pack in slugging. The Angels had the fourth-most home runs in MLB — trailing only the Yankees, Dodgers and Mariners — but were too reliant on right-handed power bats with limited on-base skills. They traded Taylor Ward, who’s coming off a career-high 36 home runs, to roll the dice on a Grayson Rodriguez upside play in the rotation.
Kurt Suzuki is headed into his first season as a big league manager. They’ve added veteran pitching coach Mike Maddux and former manager John Gibbons as bench coach. Base coaches Adam Eaton and Keith Johnson, catching coach Max Stassi, and infield coach Andy Schatzley have also signed on. The Angels have yet to finalize the staff.
Lesson #1: Grow 90210 sideburns.
Lesson #2: Unexpected levels of ‘roid use out of nowhere.
good young coaching staff….
I would’ve went with him as a strength and conditioning coach but thats just me lol.
Honestly, against all odds the Angels have put together a decent coaching staff. Their first move of the offseason was also a pretty good move. It will be exciting to see how they screw this up!
He gives them a shot…
Oh well, sorry any Astros fans
Canseco strength and conditioning coach and Barry Bonds for cranium growth coach.
I have no idea if these are good or bad hires.
It’s the Angels- every hire is a bad hire.
The Mike Maddux hire wasn’t bad.
Strike outs and roids are on the list of to dos for 2026
I’m a little puzzled on this one
Brady Anderson: Former Orioles slugger, famous for his 50-homer season in 1996. Played 15 MLB seasons, mostly with Baltimore but has no experience coaching
John Mabry: Assistant hitting coach. He does have extensive coaching experience with the Cardinals, Royals, Marlins, and Orioles
The Angels struck out the second most times in MLB history last year.
It’ll be hard not to improve.
Yet I wouldn’t rule it out.
The fact that we were worst in Ks, worst in BA, 3rd worse in OBP, but 4th best in home runs shows how backwards this team’s approach has been. The long ball will win a game or two but not a season. Small ball “get ’em on get ’em in” with a solid pitching staff is what wins seasons.
The coaching staff seems to be shaping up but until Moreno is gone or changes his micro-managing, the results will be the same.
Only player in MLB to have 50-20 and 20-50 season
Is he still dating the former kpop singer?