I wish these sorts of days came on Monday, but I guess that’s when most of the reporters are gathering all these tidbits after watching football all day Sunday.  Nonetheless, here are a few tidbits from around the league, with links to deeper stories and details.

The Angels and Dodgers are in the hunt for Roy Halladay,  though, the Angels make a little more sense since they will easily be able to sign the pitcher to a long term contract.   This Sam Miller blog post lays out the advantages of Roy Halladay over John Lackey, and they are stark.  Halladay pitched an extra 150 innings over Lackey the past two years, yet only gave up 17 more runs.    Those numbers certainly show why John Lackey seems to be out wandering the desert of free agency.  Who wants to pay #1 money to a #1A pitcher.

The Angels have voted to give rookie pitcher Nick Adenharts estate a full share of the playoff money, a very nice gesture.  Here’s a link to the details of the playoff money breakdown from the associated press.

TBS has “parted ways” with Chip Caray.  David O’Brien has the details, which include the termination of Caray’s contract, despite the fact the team says that both parties want to head in different directions.  Caray says he wants to focus full time on a team, and TBS has had him doing many different, non-game related duties.  He would like to get back to the daily life of following one team, which would allow him to be more focused.  Good news for fans is he won’t be in the booth for playoff games anymore, unless, perhaps the team he lands with makes the playoffs.

Lastly, tonight is the deadline for teams to offer their departing free agents arbitration.  Arbitrations works the same here as it does with players in their first 6 years. If the two sides can’t agree on a contract, they go to arbitration.  The key thing though is that the team must offer arbitration to a player to a considered either Type A or Type B to get a draft pick piece of compensation.  The only way you would not want to offer arbitration is if you think no other team will sign the player and you don’t particularly want them either.  If you offer arbitration and the player doesn’t sign elsewhere you are stuck with them.  We can get further into the details tomorrow, once we know who has and has not been offered arbitration.