A.L. reports.(Baseball; forecasts for American League teams)

ANAHEIM ANGELS The team passed on the available free-agent and nontendered first basemen, so it may seek an outfielder--with RHPs Ramon Ortiz and Ben Webber and LHP Jarrod Washburn trade candidates--and consider moving CF Darin Erstad to first to protect his balky right hamstring. LF Garret Anderson has offered to move to center or right; RF Jose Guillen could play left. ROTATION ANALYSIS: Bartolo Colon and Kelvim Escobar make it a strength. They should relieve pressure from Washburn, Ortiz, John Lackey and Aaron Sele, all of whom are better than they showed in 2003--particularly Washburn, the lone lefty, who added an effective changeup to his repertoire of ...