Brad Ausmus has been fired as the Angels manager after managing a 90 loss team in his first season as the skipper. The Angels notoriously had the most broken down, patched together starting rotation in all of baseball which inevitably, and quite quickly, led to the teams downfall. At the same time the inability of the starting staff led to the early degradation of the bullpen as they consistently saw themselves pitching up to 5 innings a game for the entire season.
Even though some would claim the team suffered because of Ausmus it is very clear that the true problem rested with Angels owner Arte Moreno and GM Billy Eppler attempting to outsmart the game by signing a bundle of cheap, high-risk players who had aged into mediocrity instead of signing prime talent.