A Winter-Meetings Monday's worth of Angels rumors  December 5th,
2011, 3:09 pm ·  · posted by Sam Miller, The Orange County
Register  Quick, let's talk about all the rumors before they
turn into a wisps of smoke and drift away.  • Heath Bell, who
signed with the Marlins for three years and $27 million, says he
got an offer from the Angels but it was for only one or two
years. This might be telling. Jerry Dipoto seems smart and
sensible so far, and he has built a staff that seems smart and
sensible based on their biographies. The one piece of
conflicting evidence (based on the sliver of maybe accurate
information we get) is his apparently serious pursuit of a top
closer. If the Angels had $50 million free this winter, and he
wanted to blow some of it on a long-term contract for a closer,
it would be sort of wasteful but not upsetting. But the Angels
have as little as $15 million to work with this winter, and a
top closer -- like Ryan Madson -- will cost about $10 million or
$11 million of that. And the Angels