Angels GM offers honest assessment on Kurt Suzuki’s performance amid poor start

The MLB regular season is in full swing, and circumstances are beginning to normalize just a little over a month into the 2026 season. The Los Angeles Angels, for instance, are back to bringing back the rear in the AL West, as they fell to 13-22 on the season after suffering a 5-1 loss to the New York Mets on Sunday.

These past few games have been rough for the Angels; they’ve lost 12 of their past 14 games, including a seven-game losing streak in the middle of all that, and it’s becoming more and more unlikely for LA to break its postseason drought. Suffice to say, changes are well overdue for this underperforming Angels squad.

Be that as it may, Angels general manager Perry Minasian is satisfied with what he’s seeing from first-year manager Kurt Suzuki, whom he signed to a one-year contract this offseason.

“I think he’s been great. When you go through tough stretches, it’s tough. Nobody wants to see it. You’re living it, it’s emotional. But you find out a lot about people in those types of situations and being on the road trip and in that room, and even in New York, picking up a couple of tough losses, you see the quality of people we have. Whether it’s the manager, whether it’s the coaching staff, whether it’s the locker room,” Minasian said, per Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com.

Suzuki is doing his best, but the Angels roster simply does not have the talent-level to compete with the big guns of MLB. Their bullpen has been a gigantic weak spot this season, and it’s not Suzuki’s fault entirely that his players have been relinquishing one lead after another.

A bad start for the Angels is not doing wonders for Suzuki’s managerial reputation, but results aren’t the be-all, end-all of how he’s going to be evaluated anyway. Moreover, time is on his side, as only 35 of 162 games in the season have been played.

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