CARLSBAD, Calif. — As autumn extended from leaves changing to leaves falling, Perry Minasian, the general manager of the Los Angeles Angels, was besieged with questions from his children. Why, the kids wanted to know, are our grandparents visiting Uncle Zack and Uncle Calvin but not us?

The answer was easy. The Minasians are a baseball family. Zack is the pro scouting director for the San Francisco Giants, and the Giants won the National League West and were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers in a division series. Calvin is the director of clubhouse and equipment for the Atlanta Braves, and his 2021 ride went all the way to the World Series title. So the brothers’ parents, Zack and Barbara, spent October and early November crisscrossing the country cheering for two of their four sons. (Another brother, Rudy, 42, has his own law firm in Chicago.)

Perry, the third baseball son, chuckled as he recounted this while standing on the back veranda of the hotel where M.L.B.’s general managers meetings were held this month. He and his family were left out of Grandpa and Grandma’s itinerary because the Angels, as usual, were left out of the postseason.

Now, as Minasian, 40, plans for his second year of running the Angels’ baseball operations, there remain more questions than answers, some far more pointed than others, starting with this: Is the organization that fumbled away much of Mike Trout’s prime going to do the same with Shohei Ohtani?

Source: New York Times

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