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Troy Percival, closer on the 2002 Angels championship team, will manage Long Beach’s new Pioneer League team launching next spring at Blair Field.

His hitting coach will be Troy Glaus, the 2002 World Series MVP, as the two franchise heroes attempt to build a winner near home.

Percival has declined major league coaching offers, but the Angels have not offered him a position despite his expressed loyalty to the franchise.

When spring training rolls around, it will be one dozen years since the Angels last appeared in a postseason game and two dozen years since they won their first and only World Series championship . If baseball were scripted, two of the Angels’ World Series hero

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