Isn’t There a Way to Keep Joyner, Trade Port?

What can Angel General Manager Mike Port possibly be thinking? This is the front office (Port and his predecessor, Buzzie Bavasi) that let Nolan Ryan and Don Baylor go elsewhere, without compensation, at the peak of their careers; that traded Tom Brunansky for Doug Corbett, and that pays George Hendrick $1 million a year.

It also released Doug DeCinces in a public relations move that would have made Moammar Kadafi jealous.

Port has also suggested that Donnie Moore is faking an injury, just before doctors removed a sliver of bone from Moore’s spinal cord.

Now Port is alienating Wally Joyner, the first home-grown potential superstar in the team’s history.

Wouldn’t there be some way to keep the players and send the general manager to the minors?

TERRY AGUANA

Fullerton