Personally I'd rather end up playing the big money teams from the East than the Angels too...because the Angels are so close to a mirror image of us...they've scored almost exactly as many runs as us this year, they've pitched almost exactly as well as us...the only thing we really have as an advantage over them is our total bullpen ERA, and in their best guys they're as good as anyone. About the only difference is that they're way behind us in home runs, but they hit a hell of a lot better than us with RISP.
In the playoffs, pitching and defense win games. You don't win many games by out slugging everyone. Why did the Red Sox come back agains tthe Yankees last year? Because the Red Sox pitchers stepped it up.
I think it will be us or the Angels coming out of the AL because of that.