James Andrews

In a hospital many miles from his familiar third-base bag at Veterans Stadium, Mike Schmidt underwent an arthroscopic operation yesterday to mend his torn rotator cuff. But almost at the very same hour, Phillies president Bill Giles was making several revelations that might have raised more questions about Schmidt's future in Philadelphia than yesterday's trip to the rotator-cuff surgeon. Contacted yesterday in Montreal, where he is attending a meeting of baseball owners, Giles revealed that he had already told Schmidt that the Phillies would not pick up the option on his contract that would have paid him $2.25 million next year.