Pedro Guerrero

Former baseball star Pedro Guerrero told an informant working for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration that he would guarantee payment of a $200,000 cocaine shipment being arranged by a family friend, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday. Federal prosecutor Russell Killinger said during opening statements of Guerrero's drug conspiracy trial that the former slugger for the Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals guaranteed the payment during a meeting with the informant and an undercover DEA agent.

Pedro Guerrero looks a bit out of place in the clubhouse at Gene Autry Park, but it's not because he's a millionaire among Angel minor leaguers or because he was batting cleanup for the Dodgers when most of his current teammates were still in Little League. It's the shoes. Guerrero's spikes are bright red, and they stick out like a pair of pumps in a closet full of work boots. "Hey, I thought they wore red," said Guerrero, 38. "I haven't seen the Angels in awhile."

Just days after announcing that they had no plans for Pedro Guerrero to become a strike replacement player, the Angels sent him a letter Wednesday requesting that he do so. "That's an embarrassment to the game of baseball," said Tony Attanasio, Guerrero's agent. "I repeatedly asked the Angels a month ago if Pedro would be invited to major league camp. They told me, 'Absolutely not.' "(Wednesday), I get a letter from the Angels inviting Pete to their major league camp to be a replacement player.

The Angels, after learning that Bo Jackson has declined an invitation to rejoin them, have decided to gamble on another power hitter. Would you believe . . . Pedro Guerrero? Guerrero, 38, who has spent the last two seasons playing for Sioux City, Iowa, of the Northern (Independent) League, agreed to a triple-A contract Friday.

The Angels, after learning that Bo Jackson has declined their invitation to rejoin them next season, have decided to gamble on another power-hitter. Would you believe . . . Pedro Guerrero? Guerrero, 38, who spent the last two seasons playing for Sioux City, Iowa, of the Northern (Independent) League, has agreed to a triple-A contract.