BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Season Is Over for Harvey

Bryan Harvey’s season ended Friday, when team orthopedist Lewis Yocum shaved some spurring in Harvey’s right elbow during arthroscopic surgery. The procedure was performed at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, where Harvey was to remain overnight.

Harvey, who led the American League last season with 46 saves, was 0-4 this season with a 2.83 earned-run average and 13 saves. Team spokesman Tim Mead said Harvey would be put on a rehabilitation program for the rest of the season and is not expected to throw again until November.

Pitching coach Marcel Lachemann said he believes Harvey will be as effective next season as before the injury.

“The question is whether it’s a three-, four-month thing or longer,” Lachemann said. “I still feel he’s going to come back and be a dominant stopper, especially with the things they can do medically now. Age is a factor, too, and he’s young (29).”

Lachemann will happily relinquish the interim manager’s job to John Wathan, who has been absent since Monday after the death of his father, Jim. Wathan attended the funeral Friday and was scheduled to land in San Francisco shortly before game time.

“It’ll be good to see John back, just because it’ll be good to see John after what he’s been through,” Lachemann said.

“Managing is a little more difficult than just doing one thing, but when you spread out the workload, it makes it easier. What I’ve done is not really managing. Managing is putting a club together and teaching them the way you want to do things. What I’ve been doing is doing the things John wanted, which is what Buck (Rodgers) wanted. It’s maintaining.”

Jose Canseco took exception to what he considered an ethnic slur in a San Francisco Chronicle column Thursday. The column, by Lowell Cohn, urged the A’s to sell him to the Florida Marlins and said: “He would be the Big Burrito there, and judging by the size of his ego, that would be fine with him.” Canseco underlined the words “big burrito,” and wrote on the page, “Be careful of the jackal with a racist attitude.” . . . Mark McGwire said he won’t “close any doors on anybody,” including the A’s, but “let me just say that at the end of this year I’m going to be a free agent.”

Lachemann was impressed with rookie Damion Easley, who was in Friday’s lineup again at third base. “I thought he looked comfortable and not nervous at all,” Lachemann said. . . . Greg Myers (sprained right wrist) can catch and throw but not hit. . . . Luis Polonia has a sore left shoulder but was the designated hitter Friday.