Former Texas Rangers Manager Interviews for Los Angeles Angels Job

Ron Washington is seeking his second managerial job after leading the Texas Rangers from 2007-14.

Former Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington interviewed with the Los Angeles Angels for their open managerial job on Tuesday night, per The Athletic.

Washington has been the third-base coach for the Atlanta Braves since 2017. He interviewed for that job in 2016, but Brian Snitker got the job and Atlanta ultimately hired Washington to coach third base and tutor infielders. He won a World Series ring in 2021.

Before that, Washington was a coach with the Oakland Athletics in 2015-16. He was a coach there for a decade before taking the Rangers job.

Other candidates for the vacant job including another former Rangers manager, Buck Showalter, and former Rangers infielder Benji Gil.

Washington replaced Showalter when he took over the Rangers for the 2007 season in his first job as a manager.

Methodically, the Rangers built a roster for the future, accelerated by the Mark Teixeira trade. By 2010, the Rangers were not only back to winning the American League West, but they made their first trip to the World Series, and in 2011 the Rangers returned. The Rangers lost that latter Fall Classic appearance in a heartbreaking seven-game series to the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Rangers reached the postseason one more time, in 2012, losing in the Wild Card game. In 2013, the Rangers won 91 games but failed to make the playoffs.

Washington finished as the winningest manager in Rangers history, going 664–611.

Washington resigned from the job on Sept. 5, 2014.

The journeyman infielder played 12 Major League seasons and was even a non-roster invitee to Rangers spring training in 1990.

Once he was done playing, he carved out coaching roles with the New York Mets and the Athletics, the latter of which coming in the "Moneyball" era (an actor playing Wash had a small part in the movie adaptation of the book). He was largely credited with the development of Oakland infielders Eric Chavez and Miguel Tejada. 

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