Angels to furlough some employees in June, per report

The Angels plan to furlough some non-playing baseball employees after June 1, per Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic:

Among those directly affected will include the pro scouting staff as well as junior-level baseball operations employees. Furloughed staff will continue to receive benefits through the end of the year, and the Angels will donate $1 million to the Angels Employee Assistance Fund to provide grants to those affected.

“We, like businesses throughout the United States, are making difficult decisions to protect our long-term stability,” Angels spokesperson Marie Garvey said Monday in a statement, which also announced the assistance efforts.

In April, the Angels committed $1.2 million to stadium employees for games missed.

Links

• MLB.com’s all-time Angels team is now at designated hitter, with 1979 MVP Don Baylor and Chili Davis the main combatants. Rhett Bollinger has more on the choice.
• Jim Alexander at the Orange County Register says if we will have a Major League Baseball season comes down to money.
• Matt Sussman at Baseball Prospectus wonders how we take the potential state of MLB games without fans to its logical extreme: hundreds of teams, in smaller, affordable fanless stadiums.