ANAHEIM, Calif. — There was a subdued pep rally feel to the Los Angeles Angels’ introductory news conference for new interim GM John Mozeliak. Everyone in Angels leadership attended, wearing their patented red polos, and when it ended they applauded.It’s a bit weird, of course. If the Angels lose Saturday night against the Athletics, they will match the Kansas City Royals’ AL-worst 34-50 record. The team is on the verge of an 11th consecutive losing season and a 12th without a playoff appearance. There’s hardly any reason for celebration.But it was also the first time in a long time that the club’s executive leadership genuinely acknowledged that change was desperately needed. And the face of that will be Mozeliak, who spent 30 years with the St. Louis Cardinals, 18 of which he led their baseball operations. He left the club after last season, when his contract expired.“Obviously, they lacked consistency in terms of winning,” Mozeliak said of his new team. “That’s the proxy. A lot of things can be used to determine if an organization is healthy or not. I think for me, where (Angels president) Molly (Jolly) and I are connecting is that we understand wins and losses matter.“How do you get to a place where that becomes consistent?”For an organization defined by turnover, failures and chaos, Saturday was at least an attempt at a full reset. It remains to be seen if that actually occurs.Here are five takeaways from the 30-minute news conference.No one is getting fired … yetMozeliak started his press conference by assuring the staff that their jobs were safe. Beleaguered manager Kurt Suzuki will stay on through the duration of his one-year contract, and all of former GM Perry Minasian’s top lieutenants, each of whom attended the press conference, will stay on.But Mozeliak didn’t shy away from hinting at potential staff turnover after the season.“There’s change that’s going to happen,” Mozeliak said. “That’s why we’re here.”He did not explicitly say those changes will be on the personnel side. The staff in place, he said, will help him understand what changes need to be made. It’s fair to assume there will be personnel turnover when the season ends, given that Minasian hired so many front-office employees.Mozeliak could stay on long-term, but that’s not the planMozeliak’s contract expires in December, he said, and he is confident the Angels will name a new GM by the time a long-anticipated lockout could begin at the start of that month.What’s unclear is if Mozeliak will retain any role after his contract expires. He didn’t rule it out, indicating there could be room to stay on.“I really don’t want to have to be in the seat of a general manager for five years,” Mozeliak said. “I’m not necessarily, when my contract ends, [going to] just completely walk away. Depending on who ends up getting hired, what that team looks like, there could be a position or a role that makes sense for me to stay around.”Could that be as an advisor? Could that be as president of baseball operations? He didn’t mention specifics.Molly Jolly avoided discussing MinasianJolly did not even mention Minasian during her opening statement Saturday. When she fielded a question about Minasian, she kept her answer brief and did not say his name.“Change always starts with that first decision,” Jolly said. “And reflecting on where we were and what I wanted to accomplish, I felt like starting that process right away was in the best interest of our organization right now and in the future.”Mozeliak said he’d been communicating with Jolly for “weeks” before Friday’s announcement.Mozeliak has yet to meet MorenoOr so he says. It’s hard to imagine that baseball’s most hands-on owner hasn’t met his new general manager. Whatever the case, it’s clear Jolly was less of a fan of Minasian than recently retired president John Carpino.Speaking about Arte Moreno, Mozeliak didn’t discount the owner’s reputation, but he expressed optimism that they could have a strong relationship.“I think the short-term focus for me is, what does that communication line look like?” Mozeliak said. “Making sure he understands what our direction is. I’m looking forward to that.“I have not met him. But I can tell you this. He does care; he does want to win. He probably is a little too much of a fan than not. That’s a hard thing. Because sometimes on the business side of this game, we have to make decisions that aren’t fun to make.”Still TBD on the draft and trade deadlineThat’s why this happened now, of course. Jolly acknowledged that there was discussion about waiting until after July to replace Minasian, but she ultimately decided to act sooner rather than later.Mozeliak didn’t offer many details on how the team would approach the July 11 draft and Aug. 3 trade deadline. The major question will be if Moreno is willing to deal top starting pitchers like Reid Detmers and José Soriano, along with outfielder Jo Adell.“My answer now is that I don’t know the answer to that,” Mozeliak said. “In time, I think we will come up with a trade deadline strategy that we are all comfortable with.”Mozeliak said he doesn’t have a great sense of the state of the Angels’ farm system, and he rejected the assistance of opposing scouts in learning more about the organization’s prospects. “I think I’m going to go internal and trust what these people see every day,” he said.