BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Team Finally Gives Up on Magrane

The Angels designated pitcher Joe Magrane for release or assignment Monday night and will have to pay off his estimated $3-million contract over the next two years.

Magrane, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left elbow in February of 1994, was 2-6 with a 7.30 earned-run average last season. Opponents batted .300 against him. He had a 6.75 ERA in 2 2/3 innings this spring.

In trimming their roster to the 28-man limit, the Angels also sent left-hander Andrew Lorraine to triple-A Vancouver. Last season, Lorraine was 12-4 with a 3.42 earned-run average with Vancouver, and 0-2 with a 10.61 ERA with the Angels, who want him to pitch regularly in the minors. He wasn’t given much of a chance to make the major league club during the abbreviated spring training. He pitched just two innings, giving up eight hits and three earned runs.

Also optioned to Vancouver were pitcher Ken Edenfield and infielder Rod Correia.

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Catcher Greg Myers, who fractured his big toe when he fouled a ball off his right foot Thursday, was placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 21. Myers said he hopes to be back in action within a week or 10 days. Manager Marcel Lachemann will employ a platoon of left-hand hitting Jorge Fabregas and Andy Allanson, a right-handed hitter.

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Infielders Carlos Martinez and Ricky Jordan were returned to Vancouver with Jordan going on the Canadiens’ disabled list because of a partial tear in the rotator cuff in his right shoulder.

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Outfielders Kevin Flora, who had no options left, and Garret Anderson, who hit .321 with Vancouver last season and is batting .421 this spring, made the team, for now. Because of the strike-shortened spring training, teams have until May 15 to reach a 25-man roster. . . . Pitchers Scott Sanderson, Mike Bielecki, Shawn Boskie, Bob Patterson and catcher Allanson had their contracts purchased from Vancouver and agreed to terms on major league contracts. . . . Pitcher Phil Leftwich, placed on the the 15-day disabled list April 18 while recovering from off-season shoulder surgery, was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.

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Third baseman Eduardo Perez and center fielder Jim Edmonds, two young players the Angels are counting on to make an offensive impact this season, did just that Monday night as the Angels and Padres played to a 7-7 tie before 1,770 at Anaheim Stadium. The game ended after 10 innings by mutual agreement.

Perez had a two-run single in the first, a double to center in the third and a two-run triple in the eighth. Edmonds singled to right in the first, hit a 415-foot homer to center in the third and singled to right in the ninth.