Erick Aybar’s Free Agency Future

It is official, Erick Aybar is going to be a free agent at the end of this season.  By agreeing to a one-year, $5.075 million contract to avoid arbitration, he pretty much guaranteed that. Could an extension be worked out during the season?  Technically, yes, but it...

2012 Player Preview: Peter Bourjos

Peter Bourjos entered 2011 with many wondering if his bat could justify keeping his stellar glove in the lineup and proved that it could, and then some.  The next challenge for Bourjos will be evolving into something more than just an elite defender that can hit a...

The Angels and the Rangers: An Incestuous Rivalry

After two straight AL pennants for the Texas Rangers disrupted a decade of AL West domination by the Angels, a great rivalry was ignited.  Those flames have only been fanned by the Angels making the epic move to sign Albert Pujols, a move the Rangers countered by...

Albert Pujols: An Angel In Cooperstown?

The Angels have a long and storied history, one filled with joy, tears, pain, and blood. Many great players have come and gone under the Big A, Tim Salmon, Garret Anderson, and Nolan Ryan to name a few, yet in the history of the Angels franchise not a single player...

2012 Player Preview: Dan Haren

It may have been Jered Weaver getting all of the Cy Young attention in 2011, but a case could be made that Dan Haren was actually better than Weaver last season.  Can Haren repeat the same kind of success in 2012 and if so, will it actually get noticed this time? 2011...