Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

By Joe Florkowski Also, I, like a lot of Angels players, did not feel the Red Sox were as talented as the Halos. The Angels beat themselves, rather than letting the Red Sox beat them. The silver lining, if there is one from this series, is that the Halos ...

By Richard Nickerson All tolled things really could not have gone better for the Angels since clinching the division two weeks ago.  Injured players have been given the time to mend and bench players have been given an opportunity to audition for post-season roster spots.  Barring a sudden losing streak the An...

By Joe Florkowski Now that it has been a week since the Angels clinched the A.L. West division (although it has felt like weeks months) Halo fans can start thinking about who the team will face in the first round of the American League Division Series and overall in the playoffs.

The Angels could finally put the rest of the AL West out of their collective misery and clinch the division with a win tonight over the New York Yankees and a Texas Rangers loss. It would break the record for the earliest a team has claimed the division, a distinction currently held by the 1971...

MLB umpires get the help of instant replay starting today for boundary calls on home runs (adrisbow/Flickr) The discussion also veers into a Connecticut Little League Baseball league that booted a nine-year-old for being too good and the impending 250,000th all-time home run in MLB.

But I (and Angels owner Arte Moreno) are hoping that as the Angels continue to have increased success on the field and win division titles and pennants and World Series, some of those 3 million fans will stick around even in lean years.

I know that the No. 3 position in the batting order is ostensibly reserved for your best hitter which for the Angels is Vladimir Guerrero. And Guerrero has been scorching the ball lately. Arte, you made your billion in advertising, branding products to sell to suckers and now you are selling t...

Minnesota Twins Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 9. Maicer Izturis-SS After the exciting season opener, another familiar thing surfaced: To play small ball, you got to get hits and hits were hard to come by last season. After tallying up ten hits in the opener, the Twins only mustered 12 during...

The guys spend the remainder of the hour covering missing team previews for the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays. To jump to and listen to a specific team preview, select the team below… Colorado RockiesCinci...

By Jeff Howe The big bat the Angels were hoping to sign this off-season — Miguel Cabrera — would have given Vladimir Guerrero protection and added punch to the offense. Obviously, that plan did not work out and instead the Angels signed Torii Hunter as their lineup solution. While another outfielder is...

By Joe Florkowski I figured it was either a programming mistake or maybe the Angels were not going to air their first spring training game. But after I checked some message boards, I discovered the Angels will not broadcast the Angels’ spring training games until 6 p.m.!!

By Richard Nickerson Angels 2008 Preview: Part I - Off-Season Review Traded:   SS Orlando Cabrera for SP Jon Garland Angels Sign Torii Hunter The Angels other important move this off-season was the acquisition of free-agent center fielder Torii Hunter.  There were two things that made this a strange move:

Hosts Joe Aiello and Brandon Rosage put Big ‘A’ Baseball’s Richard Nickerson on the hot seat regarding Anaheim’s division dominance, as well as the team’s trade of great-hitting SS Orlando Cabrera for SP Jon Garland, the acquisition of Torii Hunter and its flourishing farm system.

By Joe Florkowski The Angels have a new radio broadcast home for the 2007 season in Los Angeles/Orange County - AM 830 - and so far the results are promising. But the new radio station allows Arte Moreno to air Angels games on his schedule, rather than ESPN’s.

By Joe Florkowski But please don’t get Kevin Gregg. In Francisco Rodriguez, the Angels have one of the top 10 closers in the game. He has saved 40 or more games in a row for three years in a row. And now he is seeking $12.5 million to pitch in 2008. But I wonder if he is really worth that much. And so are the [...]

By Joe Florkowski I, of course, was looking for the names mentioned in the report that have ties to the California Angels, Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Some interesting names popped up, with many having ties to former Met clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski.

By Brandon Rosage Assessing the done deals and the hottest names still unclaimed The Transaction Guy’s Ryne Crabb joins the show to break down how Torii Hunter’s deal with the Angels affects the rest of the free agent outfielders, including Andruw Jones, Mike Cameron and Aaron Rowand. We also look at the bi...

By Joe Florkowski The Dodgers are making a strong marketing push this year because the team is celebrating its 50th year in Los Angeles. The Hunter signing allows the Angels to continue to put pressure on the Dodgers in the battle for the hearts and minds (and dollars) of the Southland.

By Pizza Cutter Yeah, that about sums it up: On the surface, this was a boring year for Ranger fans.  The real work was below the surface.  In the trades mentioned above, Lofton brought in minor league catcher Max Ramirez.  Gagne brought in Kason Gabbard and David Murphy.  Teixeira brought in that Salty guy an...

By Richard Nickerson Game One:          John Lackey vs.  Josh Beckett @ Fenway Game Two:          Kelvim Escobar vs. Daisuke Matsuzaka  @ Fenway Game Three:      Jered Weaver vs. Tim Wakefield @ Angels Stadium Game Four:        Lackey  vs.  Beckett @ Angels Stadium Travel Day:        Escobar vs. Matsuzaka @ Fenway

By Joe Florkowski It’s being reported that if Alex Rodriguez leaves the New York Yankees at the end of the season and opts out of his contract, his super agent/devil in disguise Scott Boras will seek as much as $30 million a year. Ultimately, I think Angels’ owner Arte Moreno will have to decide one of two thing...

By Richard Nickerson The Angels are sputtering into the All-Star Break with players dropping like soldiers in the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan.  Mike Napoli saved a game in Baltimore by blocking the plate and tagging out a potential game-tying runner at the plate.  But his heroics came at a price as t...

By Richard Nickerson 5. Casey Kotchman - Seemingly the Angels first baseman of the future for the past five years, the future is now for Kotchman who is hitting just .235 with 1 HR.  Finally healthy and with no one standing between him and the starting first baseman job, Kotchman needs to seize the moment and prove t...

By Richard Nickerson I can’t predict how this will play out but based on Moreno’s comments today there could be storm brewing in the desert. If there is a dust-up then the Angels end-game is clear: smooth the troubled waters well before the team lands in Anaheim in April. Angels head honcho Arte Moreno broke his si...