Wayne Randazzo

I mean, they're preparing to hit.

They're preparing to catch their pitchers.

They're preparing the other team's lineups.

And he said that there's not a whole lot of difference as a manager envisioning the game happening in front of you.

It's helped him, as it helps many catchers, be a good major league manager.

And, you know, obviously you need some talent on the roster, and the Angels are trying to find their way through with a roster that people –

Don't have them projected to win very many games.

But I think Kurt Suzuki has fit in pretty naturally into the managerial role.

And I think on the other side of that, in a smart way, the Angels have also flanked him on each side with a couple of veterans.

John Gibbons is their bench coach, a guy who's managed in the big leagues and has been around forever.

and Mike Maddox, who's been a pitching coach now for almost 25 years, is in there as well.

So I think they have good people around them.

Brady Anderson has come back to baseball as the hitting coach, and the Angels have offered a much more patient approach in the first few games of the season than what we saw last year.

So I think that it's a good staff, and for a first-year manager, Kurt Suzuki has the people around him that can help him succeed.

Yeah, I think they should, and I think the players are going to push for that.

It sounds like they're pretty interested.

I mean, you can make an argument that the Team USA guys might be more interested in the Olympics than they have been in the World Baseball Classic.

I think, you know, it's a smaller tournament.

It won't be the full-sized, you know, all the countries involved.

It'll be, I think, six teams are allowed in the Olympics tournament.