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According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the White Sox and Angels could match up on a trade involving Jermaine Dye. The Angels need a power bat after losing Mark Teixeira, and the White Sox are looking for speed and have had interest in adding Chone Figgins for some time. Dye will make 11.5 million dollars in 2009, and has a mutual option with a one million dollar buyout for 2010. Dye...

Angels sign Brian Fuentes for two years, $17.5MM, with $9MM 2011 vesting option based on games finished.Analysis: Szymborski, Law, Carruth, Alper.CHONE projection: 62IP, 5HR, 23BB, 63K, 3.48 ERA, 9 RAR.This is rather obviously a better value than the Wood contract (2/20.5), which we gave a 6.6. Whether that makes it a superior move for the Angels is more debatable. Already having...

The White Sox and Bartolo Colon have agreed to a one year deal, according to Ken Rosenthal. Colon went 4-2 with a 3.92 ERA in seven games for the Red Sox last season, but hasn't pitched in a full season since 2005, when he went 21-8 with a 3.48 ERA with the Angels. Colon played for the White Sox in 2003, and has always been known as a competitor. His attitude is perfect for Ozzie...

There are? a few position battles going on that will effect these rankings up until the point they are decided. There?s Punto and Harris battling it out in Minnesota. The Angels are looking at both Aybar and Izturis and Cincinnati is dealing with Gonzalez versus Keppinger. Until winners are ...

Former first-round draft pick Jered Weaver is not on the minds of fantasy players so far this season. Here I examine why he could be a nice pickup.

After four-years, and millions of dollars in lawyer fees. the battle over the tongue-twister, “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” is over. The City of Anaheim has dropped their legal challenge over the name after a California court of appeals ruled against the city last month, and an Orange Co. Superior court jury ruled that the Angels had not broken their stadium lease by adding...

The Chicago White Sox have signed Bartolo Colon to a one-year deal and will allow the 35 year old right hander to compete for their two remaining rotation spots. The White Sox acquried him from the Montreal Expos in January of 2003. In his one season with the South Siders he won 15 games, pitched a [...]

The Los Angeles Angels have come to an agreement with Chone Figgins, meaning that a) they avoid arbitration, b) the Yankees can't have him, and c) the Angels will continue to wreak havoc on the basepaths whenever they get on base.Figgins would have been a nice addition to the Yankees' bench, ...

The 27-year-old reliever appeared in 15 games for the Seattle Mariners last season, going 0-0 with a 9/11 K/BB ratio in 15 relief appearances. He spent the rest of the season with Triple-A Tacoma. Summary: A former third-round pick of the Angels in the 2001 draft, Woods has pitched in parts of four Major League seasons, including eight starts with the Mariners in 2006. For his career...