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The Los Angeles Angels are splitting with manager Phil Nevin.
The Angels opted not to pick up the option on Nevin’s contract for next year, the team announced Monday. Nevin had been leading the club for less than two seasons, and finished with a 119-149 career record. The club missed the playoffs under his watch this past season, and finished fourth in the AL West.
The Angels will now search for a new manager for next season. Whoever the club lands on will be their fifth in the past seven seasons. General manager Perry Minasian is reportedly set to return for a fourth season.
Nevin was first hired by the Angels before the 2022 campaign as a third base coach, but he was promoted to interim manager after the Angels fired Joe Maddon early last season. Maddon was fired in the middle of his third season amid a 14-game losing skid.
Nevin went 46-60 the rest of the way last season and got the club to a third-place finish in the AL West. Nevin was then offered a one-year deal to return as the Angels’ manager this year for a full season.
Despite receiving that chance, and having both stars Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout on his roster, Nevin couldn’t make it work. The Angels went just 73-89 this season and missed the playoffs for a ninth straight campaign. The team essentially called it quits in late August, too, and waived five players — including starting pitcher Lucas Giolito and outfielder Hunter Renfroe — after they fell out of the wild-card race.
Ohtani, despite his latest UCL injury, is set to be a free agent this coming offseason. Trout was also shut down early after his wrist injury. The team is reportedly open to trading him, too.
The Angels are now one of three teams in Major League Baseball with a managerial job open, following Gabe Kapler's departure in San Francisco and the Mets moving on from Buck Showalter, though more are expected to open up in the coming days. Whoever replaces Nevin will be tasked with rebuilding the franchise — either with or without Ohtani and Trout — and getting them back into contention. Based on how things have gone in Anaheim the last several seasons, that’s not going to be easy.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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