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Los Angeles Angels pitcher, John Lackey stands to make a lot of money this winter.

When Joe Girardi has big decisions to make, he consults his thick black binder. In his first postseason as New York's manager, he's been checking that book full of baseball data a lot.

I was planning on writing my World Series preview and predictions today, but I think I am going to hold off for one more day.

After a season that began with a tragedy and ended in bittersweet defeat for the Los Angeles Angels, manager Mike Scioscia was left thinking about what his team accomplished and what it left undone during perhaps his longest year in baseball.

Athletics 11. Blue Jays 12. Reds 13. White Sox 14. Brewers 15. Rangers 16. Cubs 17.

The chances for rain and thunder at game time tonight are 90 percent. Should Game 6 be postponed until Sunday night and the Angels then win it, the forecast for John Lackey starting game 7 Monday night on three days' rest is somewhere between 90 and 100 percent.

Los Angeles Angels pitcher John Lackey could be the most sought free agent in MLB's upcoming offseason and up 4-0 with two outs in the top of the seventh inning in Game Five of the American League Championship Series, Lackey was fired up about being taken out of the game.

The Los Angeles Angels had a huge night on Thursday. First and foremost the Halos got to watch John Lackey - in potentially his last game with the club - pitch at his best and hold the Yankees in check for 6 2/3 innings.

The potential for bad weather and a postponement is again looming over the ALCS.

Somewhere John Lackey's agent, Joe Urbon is smiling. He is smiling because he knows his client has earned himself a mega payday this offseason with not only his performance last night against the New York Yankees and in the entire postseason.

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.

After an off day, the Yankees will try to close out the Angels with a Game 5 win in the American League Championship Series tonight at Angel Stadium.

A shaky outing by Scott Kazmir and some poor fielding landed the Angels in trouble against the New York Yankees.

I know it doesn't make sense, because he has the contract, the name above his locker and all those appearances, but Brian Fuentes became a Los Angeles Angel last Sunday.

NEW YORK - NEW YORK A– Sure the money was nice, the tradition was compelling and the city, well you can't beat New York.

Facing the deep and powerful Yankees lineup in their home ballpark can often seem like a Herculean task.

Los Angeles Game 1 starter John Lackey won't try to fixate on one hitter in the Yankees stacked lineup, he said Thursday.

Throughout the American League Championship Series, which starts tonight, you will probably be treated to many references about the Los Angeles Angels' upcoming winter of decisions.

Having dispatched the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs in 2002 and 2005, the Los Angeles Angels meet New York for the first time in the AL Championship Series starting - weather permitting - tonight.

The topic doesn't come up much, maybe here and there as part of clubhouse banter.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia announced his rotation for the AL championship series on Wednesday, selecting John Lackey to start Friday night's Game 1 against CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees .

David Ortiz is fond of saying, "It's not how you start, it's how you finish." For the first two months of the season, that bromide was about all the Boston Red Sox designated hitter had going for him.

John Lackey had come to Boston for the playoffs three times before. Each time he went back to California disappointed.

Los Angeles Angels won the American League West with a 95-67 record. The Angels meet up with the Wild Card Boston Red Sox who also went 95-67. Will this be the years the Angels get past the Red Sox? Will the Angels make it to the World Series? Starting Pitcher: Jered Weaver leads the Angels pitchers with 33 games started and 211 innings pitched.

Last night the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Boston Red Sox to begin their Divisional Series in California.

The American League Championship Series belongs to Fox Sports in a week, and Fox is already salivating for a Yankees/Red Sox series.

This is why I put very little stock in how teams and players are playing heading into the postseason.

John Lackey will start for the Angels in Game 1 of their ALDS. It's not a good idea to ask Kevin Youkilis and the Red Sox about jinxes, even when it seems Boston is holding one heck of a hex over the Los Angeles Angels.

It took the first open microphone of this series, the first questioner asking the first question at the first news conference.

The Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels will face each other in the American League Division Series...once again.

With the great postseason poker tournament just days away, Mike Scioscia has begun surveying his cards while doing his best not to tip his hand.

In their final series before entering the postseason fray, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim head to the Oakland Coliseum this evening for the first of three consecutive matchups with the division-rival Athletics.

Chris Carlson October 01, 2009 9:15 PM EDT ANAHEIM, Calif. - Chris Davis homered and drove in three runs, Julio Borbon triggered a six-run sixth inning with a go-ahead RBI single and the Texas Rangers beat the playoff-bound Los Angeles Angels 11-3 on Thursday night.

In a season worthy of a Hollywood screenplay, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the 2009 American League West Champions.