Matt Holliday

Well that was fun. David Freese‘s walk-off eleventh inning blast to dead center off little-used Mark Lowe capped off what proved to be another in an ever-mounting list of late inning Game Six heroics in World Series lore. Game Seven may be packed with pressure on both sides, but Game Six is where memories are made. Tonight’s finale certainly will not be able to live up to yesterday’s predecessor. If it does, I’m not sure my eyeholes can take it. While we still have last night’s epic Epic still fresh in our minds let’s see where it ranks among the [...]

Last night’s Game Three was not all about Albert, though it seems that way now. Five hits, six RBIs and a quarter-mile’s worth of home runs certainly opens and shuts the case for Pujols as the player of the game, and the series, and the universe of ever ever, but before his three-homer outburst beginning in the sixth inning on, his Cardinals were actually embroiled in what was shaping up to be a pretty decent, perhaps even memorable, World Series contest with the Texas Rangers. At the center of the controversial-turned-historic action were a couple of former Los Angeles Angels, [...]

Among the reasons given in defense of the front office over what many, including myself, have deemed a rather disappointing off-season is that the budget didn’t allow us to add a player like Matt Holliday lest we be unable to sign players like Howie Kendrick or Eric Aybar in the future. While I understand the reasoning behind this, I believe there is a part of the equation people are leaving out, on both sides: Spending the money WISELY. The debacle that was our CF for years is the perfect example of how not spending money wisely can come back to [...]

While it is still only early February, enough significant moves have been made this off-season that we can piece together a pretty fair picture of how the Angels fared, and what we have to look forward to (or dread) during the coming season. When Chan Ho Park, Jarrod Washburn, and Felipe Lopez are among ESPN’s top 10 free agents left on the market, it’s safe to say the truly significant signings are behind us now. With that in mind, we can look to who the Angels gained, who they lost, and what this off-season means for the 2010 baseball season. [...]