BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Carew: Sandberg Bailed Out on Cubs

Chicago Cub second baseman Ryne Sandberg is being admired for retiring this week and forfeiting a potential $16 million, but Angel batting coach Rod Carew has difficulty respecting him.

“He’s a guy who had eight good years in the big leagues,” Carew said. “He has one bad year, and he walks out on his teammates. If I was on the team, I would have felt like he let me down as one of his teammates.

“People say he doesn’t care about money. How about the guys around him? What about them?

“How many people has he seen struggling? They battled through it. Why couldn’t he?”

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Tonight will be special for the Dalesandro family.

Angel utilityman Mark Dalesandro will be returning home to Chicago for the first time in his professional career, and his 20-year-old sister, Rosemarie, is scheduled to sing the national anthem at Comiskey Park.

“I don’t think I’ll tell anybody she’s my sister until after I see how she does,” Dalesandro said.

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Carew, listing current players he says definitely will join him in the Hall of Fame: “Roger Clemens, Tony Gwynn, Don Mattingly, Paul Molitor, Kirby Puckett, Cal Ripken, Ozzie Smith, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker and Dave Winfield.”

How about Jose Canseco?

“To me, Canseco doesn’t have a chance,” Carew said. “To me, he’s not Hall of Fame consistency material.”

Rickey Henderson?

“He’s put himself in a corner where his whole baseball future has turned around. He’s turned things in a negative way.”