2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels

The 2002 Anaheim Angels won the first championship in the franchises history. They went 99-63 in the regular season and made the playoffs as the wild card team. Garret Anderson has a monster season winning a silver slugger and hit 56 doubles. While the pitching staff allowed the fewest runs in the league. They eliminated the Yankees in the Division Series before taking out he Twins in the ALCS. They met the San Francisco Giants in the World Series and went into game 6 trailing 3-2 in the series and were down 5 runs in game 6 before coming back to win the game and force a game 7.

Line up: Are you ready for some Small Ball? I hope you are if you play as this team, get the speed on base, bunt them over and knock them in. This is an interesting team as they aren't what you would expect from a World Series winner, not a lot of power other than Garret Anderson and Troy Glaus, but a lot of high on-bases to try and get the rallies started.

Rotation: This rotation will need a lot of high rolls to keep the runners off the base paths. There are plenty of opportunities to get outs if they dice are in their favor. John Lackey makes another appearance on a World Series team and Jarrod Washburn looks like he would be the ace of the staff. Luckily for them they are supported by a great bullpen.

Bullpen: Troy Percival leads the way and will be slamming doors on all comers. All four relievers are 200 points or more and can come in and help the starters should they struggle early in the game.

After looking through this team they remind me a lot of the Showdown Cup runner up Kansas City Royals, when the next cup comes around will this Angels teams be able to create the same magic that the Royals did? How would you play with a team like this