BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Rose Says Job Belongs to Sojo

Although Manager Buck Rodgers has declared the Angels’ starting second base job a contest between Bobby Rose and Luis Sojo, Rose says it’s no contest at all.

“The way I see it, it’s Luis’ job from the beginning, and I’m on the back seat,” Rose said Saturday, when rain washed out the Angels’ exhibition game against the San Diego Padres at Yuma, Ariz. “Luis is a much better defensive player than I am. He’s probably one of the best I’ve seen at second base. I can make the routine plays, but not plays he can make.”

After reluctantly trading pitcher David Holdridge to Philadelphia in 1988, the Angels were delighted to get him back in last December’s Rule 5 draft. They have made the 24-year-old right-hander a spring reclamation project.

“There’s some pretty big delivery changes he needs to make, but he’s got a very fine arm,” pitching coach Marcel Lachemann said after Holdridge gave up three runs and four hits in two innings of a rain-shortened B game. “It’s going to take time. He’s just got to be patient.”

Holdridge’s goal is to regain his control. He walked 21 in 25 innings last season for Class-A Clearwater, where he was 0-2 with a 7.56 earned-run average. In 1988, his best season in the Angel organization, he was 6-12 with Class-A Quad City with a 3.87 earned-run average and 110 strikeouts in 153 2/3 innings.

Because of the rainout, the Angels and Padres will play what Rodgers called “an upgraded B game” before today’s full-squad game. . . . Catcher Lance Parrish (sore left ankle) is day-to-day.