The end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season marked the fifth American League West division title for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the past six years. The Angels proceeded to surprise baseball fans by easily handling the tough Boston Red Sox in the divisional round of last season’s playoffs, only to be ousted by the mighty New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series, as their path to the World Series was cut short by a baseball super power. Everyone in baseball knew that the Angels would be busy in the off-season as staff ace John Lackey, slugger [...]