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Predicting 3 GM candidates Angels could steal after MLB insider’s latest clue

Is a poaching afoot?
ByNick San Miguel
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Los Angeles Angels interim general manager against John Mozeliak looks on at the batting cage before the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Los Angeles Angels interim general manager against John Mozeliak looks on at the batting cage before the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

The Los Angeles Angels have reportedly begun preliminary discussions in their search for a new general manager. Interim GM John Mozeliak will be stepping away when his contract is up in December, and a new executive will eventually take the reins, although the timeframe is messy with the lockout looming.

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that the Halos are casting a wide net in their search and are asking permission to interview candidates currently employed by other teams. Let's take a look at three potential candidates the Angels could lure away from another organization.

3 GM candidates Angels can try to poach from other teams

Matt Kleine

Rosenthal wrote a recent column about how the Angels should try to lure Milwaukee Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold. That seems like it may be difficult to do especially since the Brewers just won the World Series, but why not go for one of Arnold's underlings?

Matt Kleine has been an assistant general manager for the Brewers for several years and recently interviewed for the GM opening with the Houston Astros. Milwaukee has been thought of as one of the smartest front offices in baseball for quite some time and their World Series title proved that reputation right. Getting someone from that brain trust would be a smart move so the Angels should make a run at Kleine.

Will Cousins

Not only did Rosenthal suggest the Angels should make a run for Arnold, but if that fails he suggests they go after Erik Neander, the head of baseball operations for the Tampa Bay Rays, the team the Brewers beat to win the World Series. Some bold recommendations from the man in the bowtie.

Just like with Arnold, it is doubtful that will happen but Rays assistant GM Will Cousins may be a nice choice as well. He's an analyst who worked more on the research and development side before being promoted to assistant GM and can help the Angels be a smarter, more efficient organization just like the Rays.

Moisés Rodríguez

If it was up to Mozeliak, the Angels probably would have hired Randy Flores to be GM since they worked together with the St. Louis Cardinals, but the Astros got him instead. The Angels could sill poach someone from the Cardinals in assistant GM Moisés Rodríguez.

He has more of a scouting background and helped identify some really strong talent in that capacity so he would make sense as a guy that Mozeliak probably recommended to the incoming ownership group.

We will see which direction the Angels choose to go in, but these names all make a lot of sense for the Halos and would give them a new face of baseball operations going forward.

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