Angels Prepare to Be Locked Out : Baseball: Negotiations continue, but there’s also talk of changes in travel plans and workout sites.

While optimistic that an agreement can still be reached, averting a spring-training lockout, members of the Angels have put their Arizona travel plans on hold and are considering alternative workout sites in case the impasse drags on past the official opening of camps Thursday.

Manager Doug Rader and his players were encouraged to hear that the owners’ Player Relations Committee and the Major League Players Assn. are scheduled to meet again Monday, but their enthusiasm was tempered by the knowledge that so little has been accomplished in previous negotiating sessions.

“I’m disappointed, although this was pretty well foreseen,” Rader said. “I’m hopeful this can be resolved quickly. With our ballclub, we’re especially vulnerable because we place an emphasis on pitching, and pitchers need more time to get ready for the season. My other concern is that it’s an amicable decision where everybody can live with it and be happy. I hate to think of this happening every four years.”

Rader spends the off-season in Florida and had planned to leave for the Angels’ Mesa, Ariz., training site Thursday. “It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen right now,” he said of his journey.

A spokesman for the Angels said “the gates will be locked” at the Mesa camp, precluding workouts involving non-roster players. Players not on major-league rosters are not members of the Players Assn. and therefore are not subject to its dictates. The Angels’ minor-leaguers are not due to report to Mesa until early March. As members of the Players Assn., Rader and the club’s coaches will also be kept out. “We’re caught right in the middle,” Rader said.

Pitcher Bert Blyleven said he hopes a settlement will be reached before a lockout begins, but he did not waiver in his belief that the players should not concede to the owners’ demands for a salary cap and a pay scale based on performance.

“A lot depends on what comes out in the next meeting,” he said, “but if they’re still concerned about profit sharing, it (an agreement) won’t happen. Basically, things are being run well. The system is running real well right now, with arbitration and all, and they’re making so much money from TV and everything, so why mess around with something that’s successful?”

Blyleven, who has been through all the lockouts and strikes of the 1970s and ‘80s, predicted that owners won’t present an entirely solid front.

“I know some owners are against not having spring training. It will be interesting to see which ones,” he said. “I know Mr. (Gene) Autry and the Angels, with them getting (Mark) Langston, and (Scott) Bailes and (Mike) Smithson, they want to see those guys that they spent so much money for. It’s going to be hard on guys fighting for jobs. I know organizations want to see the guys they got.”

Getting properly prepared for the season will become more difficult should a lockout be in effect, Blyleven said, because the players will no longer be permitted to work out at Anaheim Stadium as they have been doing for the past month.

“It was convenient going to the ballpark and having catchers there,” Blyleven said. “(Workouts elsewhere) are not organized. That’s what spring training is all about, working together and getting to know each other. You have to know your shortstop, outfielders . . . that’s how you build a team.”

Rebuilding the players’ trust in the owners may be tough after this dispute.

“We trusted the owners and they collaborated against us,” outfielder Chili Davis said, referring to an arbitrator’s finding that owners acted in collusion to quash free agency in 1985 and ’86. “And now they’re asking us to trust them again?”