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Schofield Files for Free Agency After Talks Stall

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Shortstop Dick Schofield filed for free agency Friday after his agent, Dan Grigsby, said contract discussions with the Angels had stalled. Grigsby also filed for free agency on behalf of infielder Donnie Hill.

“They’ve indicated they do want to continue to talk and Dick wants to stay,” Grigsby said. “But I know Dick is very frustrated and he’s resigned to the fact that something might not be worked out.”

Schofield, a good defensive shortstop, hit .225 last season. His re-signing was declared a priority by new Angel player personnel director Whitey Herzog, but Grigsby said the offer made by the club was unsatisfactory.

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Two other key Angel players, first baseman Wally Joyner and pitcher Kirk McCaskill, also filed for free agency this week.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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