Angels to part ways with Anthony Rendon as they restructure disastrous $245M contract: report

The Los Angeles Angels are reportedly parting ways with 3rd baseman Anthony Rendon. 

Rendon was acceptable to participate the last twelvemonth of a seven-year, $245 cardinal contract, but the last twelvemonth of the declaration volition beryllium deferred successful the scope of 3 to 5 years, according to The Athletic. 

The 35-year-old was acceptable to marque implicit $38 cardinal successful 2026, but volition alternatively apt beryllium placed connected the 60-day injured database erstwhile eligible and volition not beryllium with the team, according to the report. 

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Los Angeles Angels 3rd baseman Anthony Rendon (6) looks toward the assemblage during the archetypal inning against the Washington Nationals astatine Nationals Park successful Washington, District of Columbia, connected Aug. 10, 2024. (James A. Pittman/USA TODAY Sports)

Rendon’s declaration volition spell down arsenic 1 of the worst successful the past of the sport. Rendon had a vocation twelvemonth with the Washington Nationals successful 2019 and helped propel them to a World Series title. 

In 2019, helium finished 3rd successful National League MVP voting, arsenic helium deed .319 with 34 location runs and led the league with 126 RBI portion playing beardown defence astatine 3rd base. He led the National League successful doubles successful some 2018 and 2019, with 44 successful each season. 

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Los Angeles Angels 3rd baseman Anthony Rendon (6) runs connected the tract earlier a crippled against the Oakland Athletics astatine RingCentral Coliseum successful Oakland, California, connected May 15, 2022. (Robert Edwards/USA TODAY Sports)

After signing with the Angels, Rendon was hardly connected the field, and was not precise productive erstwhile connected it. He played successful conscionable 257 of 1,032 games owed to assorted injuries passim his six seasons with the Angels. 

In those 257 games with the Angels, Rendon had a .242 batting mean with 22 location runs and 125 RBI, not adjacent amassing his single-season totals successful location runs and RBI from 2019.

Los Angeles Angels 3rd baseman Anthony Rendon (6) throws to archetypal basal to unit retired Toronto Blue Jays 2nd baseman Will Wagner (not shown) successful the sixth inning astatine Rogers Centre successful Toronto, Ontario, Canada, connected Aug. 22, 2024. (Dan Hamilton/USA TODAY Sports)

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Rendon did not play astatine each successful 2025 aft undergoing hep country anterior to outpouring training. The Angels and Rendon’s campy agreed it wasn’t tenable for him to support playing, according to the report. 

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