As eight Major League Baseball teams opened post-season play Oct. 3 and four others awaited their respective playoff debuts this weekend, Angels General Manager Perry Minasian found himself facing media members during an online interrogation.
The subject matter was one no professional sports executive welcomes. A day earlier, the perennially underperforming Angels announced they had declined a contract option on Manager Phil Nevin. When the team gathers for spring training in Tempe, Arizona, in February, it will do so under a fifth different manager in seven seasons.