Angels Not Through Wheeling, Dealing : Baseball: Club says it will make at least one more deal. Talks begin with Expos about Raines. Gaetti, Krueger, Carman getting a look.

The flurry of deals made by the Angels at the winter baseball meetings could be the beginning of a blizzard of activity.

According to Angel President Richard Brown and Senior Vice President Dan O’Brien, the club will complete at least one more deal within a week, including the signing of a left-handed pitcher. Neither would elaborate except to say the club won’t sign type-A free agents that would cost the Angels two early-round draft picks.

It is believed the Angels are looking at Bill Krueger--for whom they wouldn’t have to compensate the Milwaukee Brewers--and Don Carman, a type-B free agent who could be signed without compensation if the Philadelphia Phillies don’t offer him arbitration by Friday.

Brown also said the Angels will “evaluate people like (Minnesota Twins third baseman) Gary Gaetti” after the new-look free agents are determined. Gaetti could be signed without compensation.

In addition, Angel General Manager Mike Port said the Angels and Montreal Expos have had preliminary talks about outfielder Tim Raines. Anaheim became Raines’ possible destination after the Chicago White Sox acquired Cory Snyder from the Cleveland Indians and could afford to pass up Montreal’s proposal of Raines for Steve Rosenberg, Ivan Calderon and a prospect. The White Sox and Angels are the only clubs Raines, a career .301 hitter, would consent to be traded.

“We’re complimented by his interest,” Port said. He acknowledged that although he has an abundance of outfielders, “you never know what could happen. There could be another move.”

Tuesday, the Angels officially announced a move they had made Monday: the acquisition of outfielder Dave Gallagher from the Baltimore Orioles for minor league pitchers David Martinez and Mike Hook. And to complete Sunday’s trade with the Blue Jays they sent right-hander Marcus Moore to Toronto for catcher Ken Rivers, perhaps losing on that end of the deal in order to gain a dependable second baseman in Luis Sojo.

Moore, 20, was 16-5 with 160 strikeouts in 160 1/3 innings for Class-A Quad City last season. Martinez and Hook were deemed expendable, but the Angels were reluctant to relinquish Moore. The Blue Jays insisted on getting him in the deal, in which the Angels received Sojo and outfielder Junior Felix for Devon White and Willie Fraser.

Although they’ve given up three minor leaguers in two deals, the Angels claim they haven’t given up on their idea of building around players developed by their farm system.

“(Moore) does fit our plans, but trading him was needed to consummate the deal,” Manager Doug Rader said. “If you look at the deals carefully, all the people (the Angels traded this week) were home-grown people. That they were signed and developed by us made the two trades possible. It’s commendable for our player development people and scouting people to have produced players like that.”

Rader says he is pleased with the Angels’ moves this week. “We’ve made a trade for a second baseman that was vitally important to us and we got a defensive outfielder,” he said. “Time is not of the essence, and there’s time to do things before opening day, but the fact we’ve gotten these things done early is good.”

It’s not too early to figure who will play where for the Angels next season. Toward that end, Rader will visit the Dominican Republic next month to watch Felix play center field in winter ball and determine if Felix can be the Angels’ regular center fielder. Rader also said Mike Fetters will get a shot at filling Fraser’s long relief role if help isn’t otherwise acquired, and he has begun to plan modifications in the offense.

“Our emphasis has changed somewhat,” Rader said. “Junior Felix and Luis Soto will try to assist our overall on-base percentage and we’ll try to discipline our other people to create runs instead of trying to bang it off the wall . . .

“We’ve done a lot, but hopefully there’s more to come. I don’t think you ever stop looking.”

Dan Grigsby, who represents infielder Donnie Hill, said the Angels told him to assess Hill’s value on the free-agent market before the sides start negotiating a new contract.

“Their position is that the player sets the market,” Grigsby said. The Oakland Athletics last week made an offer worth about $1 million for two years and Grigsby made a higher counteroffer that might have cost Hill a job. The A’s, believing Hill’s demands unreasonable, acquired Earnest Riles from the Giants Tuesday. Grigsby said Hill would like to return to the Angels, who signed him last January after the A’s had released him.

The Angels signed left-hander Ed Vosberg, a former San Diego Padre and Dodger farmhand, to a triple-A contract. . . . Rader hired a scouting coordinator during a visit to Nicaragua last month, the first move in the Angels’ attempt to intensify Latin American scouting. Coverage already in place will be increased in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.