Trey Mancini retires after a 5-game Angels comeback, ending a cancer survivor’s MLB run

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Trey Mancini, the AL Comeback Player of the Year in 2021 for his return from colon cancer who then helped Houston win the 2022 World Series, announced his retirement Tuesday after his latest comeback lasted five games with the Los Angeles Angels.

“Thank you, baseball,” Mancini wrote on lnstagram.

Mancini, 34, agreed to a minor league contract with the Angels in February, a deal that included an invitation to major league spring training. Mancini hit .273 with six homers, 29 RBIs and three steals for Triple-A Salt Lake this year.

The right-handed batter had three hits in his first major league game since 2023 playing first base in a 5-4 loss to the Houston Astros in 10 innings. Mancini's final major league appearance was June 14, and he was designated for assignment on June 17.

“I am blessed to have made a home in the Orioles organization for 10 years, win a World Series in Houston, play for the Cubs in Chicago (I wish I played better for you guys), and make it back up to the MLB with the Angels,” Mancini wrote while also thanking the Reds, Marlins and Diamondbacks as well.

Mancini batted .263 with 129 homers and 404 RBIs in the majors. He played parts of six seasons with the Orioles and hit a career-high 29 homers in 2019.

He then missed the 2020 season after surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his colon. He made a successful return to the Orioles in 2021, and he won a World Series ring in 2022 after Baltimore traded him to Houston.

Mancini spent part of the 2023 season with the Chicago Cubs. He has since played in the minor league systems of the Reds, Marlins and Diamondbacks. He opted out of a minor league deal with Arizona last July after batting .308 with 16 homers for Triple-A Reno.

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FILE - Baltimore Orioles' Trey Mancini (16) is safe at home before the tag by Washington Nationals catcher Yan Gomes during the first inning of a baseball game at Nationals Park, Aug. 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FILE - Chicago Cubs first baseman Trey Mancini, left, holds up his World Series Championship ring after it was presented to him by Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker Jr., before a baseball game, May 15, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

FILE - Baltimore Orioles designated hitter Trey Mancini watches his inside-the-park home run hit against Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Shawn Armstrong during the eighth inning of a baseball game, July 28, 2022, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File)

FILE - Baltimore Orioles' Trey Mancini celebrates with a chain around his neck after hitting a solo home run against the Minnesota Twins and watches another go out by Ryan Mountcastle in the sixth inning of a baseball game, July 3, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn, File)

FILE - Baltimore Orioles' Trey Mancini tips his helmet as fans give him a standing ovation prior to a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, April 8, 2021, on Opening Day in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Quebec ’s separatist party said Tuesday he would delay any referendum on independence from Canada until Donald Trump is no longer U.S. president.

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, whose party is out of power but could win Quebec’s next election that must be held by Oct. 5, said a PQ government would still hold a referendum during its first term — but not before Jan. 20, 2029, when Trump’s term ends.

He said a question as consequential as Quebec’s future requires a clear and calm debate.

“It must not be hijacked by the upheavals of American politics, nor by the outbursts of an unpredictable president, nor by fear campaigns,” St-Pierre Plamondon said.

“This unpredictability of the American administration will harm our process as well as the quality of the debate on our future as a nation."

Trump’s tariffs and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state have complicated the separatist case in Quebec, fueling Canadian nationalism and prompting some French-speaking Quebecers to see greater security in remaining part of Canada.

Separatist sentiment has also surfaced in Alberta, where voters will decide Oct. 19 whether the province should take steps toward holding a binding referendum on leaving Canada.

Separatist referendums would face an uphill battle in both Quebec and Alberta, with Trump’s tariffs and 51st-state rhetoric strengthening the case for remaining in Canada

“Triggering it while Trump remains in the White House would have been particularly risky,” said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal.

“Support for independence in Quebec remains at around 30%, and the fact that the PQ is ahead in the polls is not a sign that support for independence is increasing.”

Quebec voters have twice rejected sovereignty, most recently by a razor-thin margin in a 1995 referendum.

Quebec, which is about 80% French-speaking, already has significant autonomy. The province of 9.1 million collects its own income tax, has immigration policies favoring French speakers and has laws giving French priority over English.

The Parti Québécois was founded in the 1960s under René Lévesque and has long sought to make Quebec an independent country.

The Parti Québécois has governed Quebec several times without holding a referendum, including during its most recent stint in power from 2012 to 2014.

Quebec’s identity has been contentious since the 1760s, when the British completed their takeover of what was then called New France.

FILE - Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon listens to a question during a University of Calgary School of Public Policy event in Calgary, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP, File)