Angels make pitching-staff shakeup, naming Tim Leveque interim pitching coach

The Los Angeles Angels have relieved three members of their pitching staff, the club announced Monday. Pitching coach Mike Maddux, bullpen coach Dom Chiti and assistant pitching coach Darryl Scott will no longer be on the team’s staff, as the Angels reshaped the group responsible for pitching instruction and in-game bullpen management.

In their place, the organization named Tim Leveque as interim pitching coach and Michael Wuertz as interim bullpen coach. Leveque and Wuertz will oversee day-to-day pitching development and bullpen preparation, roles that typically include working with starters on mechanics and approach, coordinating scouting-informed adjustments, and directing how relievers are deployed and readied through pitching changes.

The announcement was made by Angels baseball operations consultant John Mozeliak, underscoring that the changes come from the club’s upper management level rather than as a routine staff reshuffle. For a major-league club, pitching-coaching decisions are among the most visible on-field adjustments because they can affect everything from pitch selection and sequencing to how pitchers recover between outings and handle specific game situations.

Maddux’s departure removes the Angels’ lead voice for the pitching staff’s overall philosophy, while Chiti’s removal ends the bullpen coach’s direct responsibility for bullpen organization, readiness, and communications around leverage spots. Scott’s role as an assistant pitching coach also points to a loss of supplemental instruction, often used to refine pitcher-specific goals and to translate the broader pitching plan into smaller, repeatable work routines.

Because the Angels have not provided further detail in the announcement about the internal reasoning, the changes should be viewed primarily as a club-directed correction and a reset of leadership and accountability within the pitching department. Teams often make coaching moves in late season windows to establish a new framework before the next roster build, even if the on-field impact is not immediate.

The immediate focus for Leveque and Wuertz will be continuity and execution, keeping the pitching staff aligned while implementing whatever adjustments the club wants moving forward. For the Angels’ players, the key question is how quickly the new interim structure can deliver clearer direction, especially for relievers who rely on bullpen coaching cues in real time and for starters who need consistent preparation routines between starts.

Looking ahead, the organization’s next set of priorities will likely revolve around how the pitching staff responds under interim leadership, and whether management follows up with additional changes once a clearer evaluation window opens. With the coaching roles now updated, the remainder of the season becomes the next testing ground for the Angels’ internal plan to stabilize pitching performance and reduce variance from outing to outing.