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Mike Scioscia Jorge De La Rosa Jersey , former MLB third basemanEric Chavez is the front-runner for the job, according toUSA Today'sBob Nightengale.Chavez is a special assistant in the Angels organization and finished the 2018 minor league season as skipper of the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees.The Athletic'sKen Rosenthalreported in early August thatScioscia is about to reach the end of a10-year contracthe signed in January 2009 expected to step down at the end of the season after 19 years on the job. He went 1,646-1,427 with the Angels. He also made seven postseason appearances and won the 2002 World Series.With five games to play, the Angels are 76-81 and sit 23.5 games back in the American League West. This marks the fourth consecutive season they'll miss the playoffs.Although Rosenthal reportedScioscia is not expected to be back with the Angels next season, the skipper toldKLAA-AM radio Monday (h/tESPN.com) that he'd "like to" keep managing, whether it's in Los Angeles or elsewhere:"We'll continue to evaluate things this week. I'll speak with [Angels owner] Arte [Moreno] and speak with [general manager] Billy [Eppler] and kind of come to a decision. But I think that if you love something, you want to continue to keep doing it. If you can, great. And if it doesn't happen, so be it. But I love the dugout."If the Angels move on Taijuan Walker Jersey , Chavez could get the nod.The 40-year-old played 17 seasons in the majors, suiting up for the Oakland Athletics (13 years), the New York Yankees (two) and the Arizona Diamondbacks (two). He retired in July 2014, wrapping up a career in which he hit .268 with 260 home runs and won six Gold Gloves as well as a Silver Slugger.Chavez then worked on the A's broadcast crew. In October 2014, the Yankeeshiredhim as a special assignment scout. He then joined the Angels after the 2015 season as aspecial assistantto general manager Billy Eppler, who was part of the front office that brought Chavez to New York before Eppler moved to Los Angeles in 2015.Scioscia's 1,646 managerial victories are the most in franchise history.Bill Rigney (1961-69) ranks second with 625 wins. Replacing him with someone who has no experience as a big league manager may seem risky, but Chavez does have a good relationship with the general manager."He can bring a high sense of baseball acumen in a number of areas, through experience, through just how he relates to people http://www.diamondbacksfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-greinke-jersey , how he'll relate to young players, older players, coaches, scouts, front office people," Eppler said of Chavez in October 2015, per MLB.com'sAlden Gonzalez. "He's just a really magnetic personality and someone I have a lot of trust and a lot of faith in."The Angels' final 2018 game will take place Sunday. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — In his last season before becoming eligible for free agency, Jose Abreu thinks the Chicago White Sox can transform into a winning team.“I’m excited because this year we’re in a good position to compete,” said the first baseman said through an interpreter Monday on the reporting day for position players. “We have a lot of talent. We’re getting ready for the point where we’re going to be a pretty good team. I think that this can be that year where we start showing what we can do.”Abreu was an All-Star last season Brad Boxberger Jersey , but he got hurt in the second half and finished with 22 homers, 78 RBIs and a .265 average, all career lows since arriving from Cuba before the 2014 season. It was the first time in five seasons he did not have 100 RBIs.Chicago lost 100 games last season and the best record for the White Sox in the last five years was 78-84 in 2016.“I am excited also because I know the quality of people we have here,” he said. “I just want to get on the field and play and show all the people what we can do.”The White Sox also traded for Yonder Alonso, a fellow Cuban who will split time with Abreu at first and at DH. Alonso hit .250 with 23 homers and 83 RBIs for AL Central champion Cleveland last season.“I’ve known him a long time and we’re on the same page, just here trying to help this team in whatever capacity asks of us,” Abreu said.Manager Rick Renteria doesn’t foresee any difficulties in deciding time at first base and DH.“Matchups will play a part in it but you do have two pretty good first basemen now,” he said.Abreu was part of the White Sox contingent that met during in December with free agent infielder Manny Machado, Yonder Alonso’s brother-in-law.“It was an outstanding conversation,” Abreu said. “Ricky and I talked to him. We talked to him about the organization Daniel Descalso Jersey , our plan, what we want to accomplish here. And he got it. He understood that. We would like to have him. But if we don’t get him, I think we’re going to be OK, too, because we have guys with talent that can play.”Abreu will earn $16 million, a raise of $3 million. He is among the free-agents-to-be monitoring the market.“I would like to stay with this organization forever,” he said. “But that is one of the things that I can’t control right now.”