The Anaheim Angels are hiring long-time former major league catcher Kurt Suzuki as their new manager, per multiple reports. Suzuki has been a special assistant to general manager Perry Minasian the past three years, meaning both A.L. West teams who have made managerial changes this month have replaced their 70-something year old veteran managers with 40-something former players who were front office special assistants for the team that made them the new manager.

Suzuki, who just turned 42 this month, was a second round pick of the Oakland A’s back in 2004, and spent the first five-plus years of his major league career with the A’s. Weirdly, he was traded in August, 2012, to the Washington Nationals for David Freitas, and then the Nationals traded him back to Oakland in August, 2013, for D

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