BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJORS : Torre, Maxvill Are Given Extensions

The St. Louis Cardinals on Monday gave one-year contract extensions through 1993 to Manager Joe Torre and General Manager Dal Maxvill.

“Both Dal and Joe have done outstanding jobs,” said Fred L. Kuhlmann, president and chief executive officer of the team.

The Cardinals are a surprising second in the NL East, considering that they lost Vince Coleman, Terry Pendleton and Ken Dayley to free agency and left-hander Joe Magrane to injury. St. Louis has a 36-32 record and trails the Pittsburgh Pirates by five games.

“The excellent performance of the team to-date indicates that Dal knew what he was doing when he put the team together,” Kuhlmann said. “And Joe has taken those players and is carefully cultivating them into a winning team that we expect will be a contending team for many years to come.”

Maxvill has been general manager since 1985. Torre was hired as manager Aug. 1, 1990, and is in his first full season with the team.

While Torre has received an extension for a 36-32 record, Bud Harrelson is catching heat in New York as the Mets have started 35-32. Harrelson was even booed at an old-timers’ game at Shea Stadium and there have been other occasions, too.

“It goes with the territory,” said Met pitcher Frank Viola, who remembers what summers in New York used to be like for Harrelson. “Buddy was loved as a player. Managing is a different number.”

Said Harrelson: “I realize they want a winner as much as I do.

“Getting booed does hurt. I’ve always been fairly sensitive. But it goes with the job. No one likes to be booed but I’m not going to do things different than I have.”

Monday he woke up to headlines and talk-show chatter that second-guessed his decision not to use relief pitcher John Franco in Sunday’s 4-3 defeat at Atlanta.

“Certainly nobody enjoys losing, but the concept is you have another day,” he said. “There’s nothing like the winning. This is the closest I can get to playing. I can’t catch it, hit it or throw it.”

Former major league pitcher Dave Dravecky was discharged from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, six days after his left arm and shoulder were amputated.

Dr. Murray Brennan, chairman of the hospital’s Department of Surgery, who performed the operation, described Dravecky’s recovery as, “superb, both physically and psychologically.” The surgeon said Dravecky’s long-term prognosis continues to be excellent.

Nolan Ryan, bothered by a sore shoulder for the second time in six weeks, is improving and has told the Texas Rangers to plan on his making his next start, Thursday at Oakland. Ryan threw in the outfield during batting practice Sunday at Chicago and had no problem with the shoulder stiffness that forced him out of Friday’s game after five innings. He left with a one-hitter, but the bullpen blew a 3-0 lead and the Rangers lost. If Ryan does pitch against Oakland, it is doubtful that he will face the Angels during the Rangers’ four-game series at Anaheim Stadium Friday through Monday. . . . Texas outfielder Jack Daugherty, hitting .184 in 33 games, underwent surgery in Chicago to remove his appendix and is expected to miss four to six weeks.