So Cameron is better than Andrew Brown? Good.

I didn't know Mitt Romney's son played ball.

Also, yet another decent reliever who slips through Darth Minaya's fingers. You'd think that, given a good starting rotation and one of the best offenses in the NL last year, he'd be out picking up decent relievers to replace every last member of last years gasoline squad, but so far he's sat on his thumbs. It's very irritating, especially since the inevitable result is an overpay for K-rod (as if that fixes the problem of having no reliable setup man or 7th inning bridge, or the overabundance of OOGYs).

Isn't it hard to be more groundbally than Brandon Webb? I know a handful of guys do it, but isn't that like calling someone tall, but not as tall as Shawn Bradley?

Tagg Bozied! I remember when Peter Gammons promised that he was going to be a star hitter.

Bozied could be a nice short side platoon guy with either Cust or Barton. I'm cool with this. Better Bozied than Emil Brown or Mike Sweeney again. And Cameron looks good. Yay!

Why won't they have leads to protect? I think they are about a .500 team with more moves to come this offseason.

Tagg can hit pretty well. I'm surprised that he hasn't logged at least a little MLB time yet.

Cameron's not a bad snag, either.

I'm really hoping Furcal signs elsewhere, but if he's on the A's along with Holliday they might even be favorites for the division. As things stand right now, my guess is the Angels are barely above a .500 talent level and the A's are not far behind. You know the Angels will spend some money on a 1B/DH/OF or two, but you don't know if it will benefit the team (Vlad, Hunter) or just be a waste (Finley, Matthews, Hillenbrand).

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I'd like to think so but it's definitely an uphill climb trying to match up a bunch of young starting pitching with what the Angels have.

Bozied is the guy who hit a game-winning grand slam in 2004 Triple-A ball, then tore a patella tendon upon his celebratory jump onto home plate. That probably slowed his development.

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This is an interesting offseason.