BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : Sanderson’s 20-Year Career at an End

A professional baseball career that began 20 years ago in West Palm Beach, Fla., and included 163 major league victories for seven teams in 17 seasons, apparently ended Thursday in New York City, where the Angels released Scott Sanderson.

The club also put reliever Mark Eichhorn on the 15-day disabled list because of rotator cuff tendinitis and recalled two pitchers from triple-A Vancouver, right-handed starter Shad Williams, who will make his major league debut in Yankee Stadium Saturday, and right-handed reliever Jeff Schmidt.

Sanderson, who turns 40 in July, was trying his second comeback from lower-back surgery last August but was ineffective in five games, going 0-2 with a 7.50 earned-run average. He has a 163-143 lifetime record and a 3.84 earned-run average.

Williams, a 17th-round pick in 1991, was 4-0 with a 3.30 ERA in seven starts at Vancouver. Schmidt, a 1992 first-round pick, had nine saves and a 3.00 ERA in 12 relief appearances for Vancouver.

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The Angels have expressed interest in trading for San Diego pitchers Scott Sanders or Tim Worrell, Toronto’s Pat Hentgen or Erik Hanson, or Houston’s Darryl Kile, but the asking prices appear too high and the Astros do not seem willing to part with Kile.