Dropping from an overvalued #66 on our Post-2005 Top 100 Angels series, leadoff hitter Rick Miller was a key component of the 1979 Division Champions. Read more about his Angel career in the link above, penned in late-2005 by myself and Rob McMillin.

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Outfielder Joe Rudi was ranked much higher on our Post-2005 Top 100 Angels list. The ranking took into consideration his on-field accomplishments in 4 seasons with the Angels and boosted him up a bit because of the glory associated with being the first "Big Splash" free agent signed by Gene Autry prior to the 1977 season. He represented the beginning of a decade+ of dropping green in order to pursue gold.

Our Post-2008 List is a little more about the results each player produced and, having had a nice short Angels career, Joe falls from #63 All Time to #85.

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A no-brainer for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bert Blyleven pitched well for the Pirates and Twins before coming to Anaheim and having one of the best seasons (1989) by a pitcher to ever don the halo.

Bert was a Post-2005 Top 100 Angel. Read about his contributions to franchise lore there with a short guest essay written by Baseball Analysts Editor Rich Lederer.

The Angels had a batting champion. His name was Alex Johnson. Tales abound about his bad chemistry in the clubhouse, but he beat out Carl Yastrzemski by .0004 points in 1970 and remains to this day the only Angel to win a league batting title. His .329 average is tied for 9th place in a season all time in franchise history. His 1970 season overall was outstanding, his partial 1971 season was not, and he was traded after the season ended.

Alex was a Post-2005 Top 100 Angel, you can read a little bit more about him at that link.

Reliever Mark Eichhorn was a sidearming Scot Shields-type setup man who had some impressive seasons with the Angels. He paved the way in games for Bryan Harvey, a great tandem for shortening games.

The Right Handed MIddle Reliever was a Top 100 Angel in our Post-2005 countdown, check out the details on him at that link.

Joe Adcock was a former Milwaukee Brave great who served as a veteran presence on some early 1960s Angel teams. He played 323 Games as an Angel and, most impressively, hit 18 HR in his final season in the bigs, 1966 - the middle of the deadball era - at age 38.

More on Angels 1B Joseph Wilbur Adcock at his Post-2005 Top 100 Angels page.

So yeah, I was at the infamous interleague Pine-Tar Game where Frank Robinson, then the manager of the National League's post-Expo Nationals, fell from any perch of esteem I might have ever had for him.

He was on our post-2005 Top 100 Angels List (click that link for an extensive writeup of his Angel days by Rob McMillin of the 6-4-2 Blog) and his on-field accomplishments while wearing a halo still warrant his inclusion on this list.

The most impressive single-season record that Frank Robinson holds as an Angel is his 150 OPS+ in 1973, 7th all time in franchise history. Matt Wech ranks it as the single best season by an Angels DH ever. Robinson's 50 HR ranks 31st all time as an Angel.

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The unsung hero of the 2002 World Champions, Brad Fullmer posted the highest On-Base Percentage + Slugging (OPS) of any Angel that season (.888), in 94 of his 130 games that season as the Designated Hitter (the others were at 1B).

Fullmer played respectably in the 2002 postseason; it was his single off Russ Ortiz with a man on and one out in the fateful bottom of the 7th Inning that brought Dusty Baker to the mound with a call to the bullpen. Breaking all known protocol and voodoo-no-no logic, Baker handed the ball Fullmer had hit to a departing Ortiz as reward for having pitched so well.

Fullmer would score on the next batter's homerun, a part of the greatest comeback in World Series history.

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