Joe Saunders News

The Angels made it to the playoffs but fell short of a title, and this off-season they are acting like a team that wants to take the next step.

The Los Angeles Angels will continue to stock the Salt Lake Bees' roster until 2014.

Posted by Anthony Stalter According to a report by the Toronto Sun , the Angels have offered starting pitcher Joe Saunders, shortstop Erick Aybar and outfielder Peter Bourjos to the Blue Jays for ace Roy Halladay .

Alex Anthopoulos has spoke all week about having multiple balls in the air. Now there is an offer on the table for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay at the winter meetings.

Update 12 noon: Fox's Ken Rosenthal is reporting the Mariners are on the verge of signing Figgins to a four-year, $36 million deal.

Okay Angels fans, wea TMve got a "good news, bad news" situation on our hands. The good news: Word on the street is the Angels are again in the hunt for the great Roy Halladay.

Roy Halladay's pitch hand is strong. So strong, in fact, he's got practically every team in the Majors falling all over themselves to make sure it belongs to them.

After dropping out of the Roy Halladay sweepstakes in July due to their unwillingness to include shortstop Erick Aybar in a package, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have reportedly once again resumed their quest to land the former Cy Young Award Winner.

Wally Backman wants another chance to manage in the majors. The former Mets second baseman, fired after four days with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2004, was introduced Tuesday as manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones, New York's Class-A farm team in the New York-Penn League.

With the Angels trying to even the ALCS and force a Game 7 on Sunday night, former-Yankee Bobby Abreu put Los Angeles ahead with a two-out RBI single in the fourth inning.

The terms "locked in," "relaxed" and "patient" frequently come up in discussions of Alex Rodriguez 's remarkable playoff run after years of postseason stumbles.

About all the Los Angeles Angels managed to prove in all but two of the final six games of their 2009 is that you can't get to the World Series by playing like the 1962 Mets with a smattering of the 1964 Phillies.

Los Angeles Angels starter Joe Saunders pitches during the first inning of Game 6 of the American League Championship baseball series against the Yankees .

Shortly after Nick Swisher's pop fly settled into Eric Aybar's glove for the final out in a 7-6 win over the Yankees on Thursday, Angels manager Mike Scioscia plopped into his office chair and reflected upon the victory that saved his team's season.

The American League Championship Series turned twice on Thursday, toward the Yankees and then away from them, both times at precisely the same moment.

Chone Figgins and the Los Angeles Angels know they're heading straight into more than one kind of storm, and they can't wait to get wet.

Angels pitcher John Lackey could be making the most important start of his career on Thursday in Game 5 of the ALCS against the Yankees.

Bobby Abreu and the Angels had just one run and four hits against CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera in losing Game 1. AP 1. The Angels didn't show up for Game 1 of the ALCS Friday, looking more like they'd rather be curled up by a fireplace than fighting through the New York autumnal cold for the American League pennant.

Coming off a 4-1 victory in Friday night's opener, the Yankees were trying to take a two-game lead as the best-of-seven series heads to the warmth of southern California.

Joe Saunders' eyes won't be glued to his laptop screen, tracking the Nor'Easter that's expected to move through the Big Apple today.