BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Herzog Stirs Things Up in a Hurry

General Manager Whitey Herzog has been on the job only a few days, and already he has become the talk of the baseball industry for the generous three-year contract he gave pitcher Joe Magrane, drawn the wrath of agents who feel they are being bullied, and lit up the airwaves for his interest in outfielder Vince Coleman.

Welcome to Whitey’s World.

“I love it,” Manager Buck Rodgers said. “Whitey’s explosive. He just feels that to get the major things done, the early bird gets the worm. If you wait around to the winter meetings, you play host to the agents again. That’s why Whitey makes a judgment on the market, and he moves.

“Believe me, he’s not through yet.”