Angel Management Doubtful on Valenzuela

By HELENE ELLIOTT

March 29, 1991 12 AM PT

PALM SPRINGS —

Angel General Manager Mike Port said he would ask the team’s Florida scouts for their evaluation of Dodger left-hander Fernando Valenzuela. But he expressed doubts that the Angels would claim Valenzuela on waivers.

“My first reaction is I don’t see how he’d fit into our pitching situation,” Port said. “As a matter of procedure we’ll check anybody. We don’t want to close out any possibility. But right now, I don’t see how it would be a match, especially on a claim basis, which means taking his ($2.55 million) contract.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Angel Management Doubtful on Valenzuela

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