"When you can spend $1 million a day for three weeks straight and still have a few million dollars left over for a rainy day, as Angels left fielder Vernon Wells could based on his 2011 salary, you'd better produce.

But that hasn't been the case for the three-time All-Star so far this season. He entered Monday's game against Texas with a .148 batting average in 61 at-bats with 15 strikeouts and two RBIs.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia benched him on April 12 in the midst of a 1 for 26 slump and he's already been the subject of scattered boos in Anaheim, which is expecting a lot from its prized acquisition.

The Toronto Blue Jays sent Wells, who has four years and $86 million left on the $126 million, seven-year contract he signed with them, to Los Angeles for current Rangers utility player Mike Napoli and outfielder Juan Rivera.

"Sometimes it takes a little while for things to get going," Wells said. "It's baseball and it's going to happen eventually at some point. You just have to fight through it."

Wells thinks he's starting to hit his stride, and said that the way he took a pitch in his last at-bat at home against Cleveland on April 13 sparked a modest but productive 4 for 12 series against the Chicago White Sox over the weekend.

Wells was mired in a 4 for 48 dry spell and 16 at-bat hitless streak when he stepped to the batters box in the 12th inning of a 3-3 game against the Indians."