Angels once again will try to climb to the top

For Angels fans it must seem like just yesterday they were the best team in baseball, with 100 wins they went into the 2008 American League playoffs with lofty expectations. With Mark Teixeira as a hired gun and arguably the best 1-2-3 pitching rotation in the league the Angels seemed poised to return to the World Series. Unfortunately for the Halos the postseason turned out to be just more of the same, as the Red Sox sent them home after their four-game ALDS series. Now in 2009 the Angels begin life without Teixeira or Casey Kotchman who they dealt for Mark. Do they have a legitimate shot at beating the AL East powers? Do they even have what it takes to reclaim the AL West for the fifth time in six years? That is the beauty of Opening Day and what it represents we will soon find out.