ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Angels have explored deferring the last year of third baseman Anthony Rendon ’s contract, but general manager Perry Minasian couldn’t comment on it on Monday on the first day of the MLB Winter Meetings.

Rendon, who missed the 2025 season after undergoing left hip surgery, is owed $38 million next season in the final year of the seven-year, $245 million deal he signed before the 2020 season. He’s currently rehabbing his hip but hasn’t started baseball activities, so he isn’t expected to play in '26.

“There’s nothing to talk about,” Minasian said. “He's rehabbing. We'll see where that goes. There’s nothing to say about that in this current moment.”

If the Angels are to defer Rendon’s contract, as was first reported by ESPN on Nov. 26, it’s a complicated process that

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