"The Twins president flew out and visited multiple times. "No one from the organization called me to see how I was doing, and the only person who visited me in the hospital was Tim Mead," Carew said, referring to the former Angels vice president of communications. Even though would have me in his suite, I didn't feel comfortable, but I was trying to be a nice guy and not have any problems with the organization."Ĭarew spent several years in the early 2000s as a special assistant to then-team president Dennis Kuhl and began a long run as an Angels alumni ambassador in 2006.īut he said his relationship with the Angels took a decided turn for the worse after he suffered a massive heart attack in September 2015 and underwent a life-saving heart-and-transplant procedure in Los Angeles three months later. "But as time went on, Arte didn't do anything about it," Carew said of his riff with Scioscia and his deteriorating relationship with the team.
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328 career hitter and seven-time American League batting champion who helped the Twins reach the American League Championship Series in 19 and the Angels win their first two AL West titles in 19, said he had a decent relationship with Moreno for the first several years Moreno owned the team. Then I finally stopped, and I only go to games now when the Twins are in town."Ĭarew, a. I wasn't giving away secrets, so I said to him, 'No.' After that, it was kind of tough even going to ballgames. "All I wanted to do was to try to help the kids improve. "Mike Scioscia said it's either one or the other, and I said to myself, 'Minnesota has been treating me great for so many years, does he think that I'm gonna give away secrets?' No," Carew said by phone from his home in South Orange County. When Mike Scioscia took over as Angels manager in 2000 and brought in a new coaching staff, Carew arranged to spend part of spring training that season in Florida with the Minnesota Twins, the team he spent the first 12 years of his playing career with, and part of it in Tempe, Ariz., with the Angels.īut when Scioscia found out Carew had been in Twins camp, he was no longer welcome in Angels camp.
Rod Carew made it clear there is no love lost between himself and Arte Moreno, calling Tuesday's announcement that the Angels owner is exploring the possibility of selling the franchise "happy news," on Twitter, a development that gave him "renewed hope that my relationship with the Angels can be fully restored."īut Carew's animus toward the organization he played the final seven years of his 19-year Hall-of-Fame career with and spent eight years (1992-99) as the hitting coach for actually predates Moreno, who purchased the team from the Walt Disney Co.
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