A day after the Angels announced that pitching coach Mike Butcher would not be back for his 10th season on the job, Butcher had nothing but good things to say about the manager he worked for and the new general manager who publicly made the decision to let him go.
Butcher said Wednesday that he and new general manager Billy Eppler “hit it off” and that he continued to have a good relationship with Manager Mike Scioscia, which certainly leads to the inference that the decision to let him go was probably made above Eppler.
“I like the guy,” Butcher said of Eppler.