Orioles call up SS Manny Machado to play 3B, where the guys there have not been good.

20 years old and very much still learning, they're basically rolling on the dice right now with a wildcard spot on the line.

Nationals DFA Cesar Izturis.

Cardinals extend Jake Westbrook through 2013 with a mutual option for 2014.

Jemile Weeks was sent down by the A's who just traded for Stephen Drew

sigh well at leste won gm is smart anuff to seend a weekes down. y's dug so dum<?

Jemile is having a worse statistical season than Rickie. Only reason you'd option someone during a pennant race.

I'd send Rickie down if his OPS was .606

If he had a 2nd half OPS like Rickie you'd be fine but Jemile, wow. That's terrible

It looked like he had gotten it together in late May, but yeah, he's been really bad.

Not a good year for that family, although as you said, Rickie has been much better in the 2nd half.

<<Astros GM Jeff Luhnow said he recently sent scouts to look at Roger Clemens and Scott Kazmir of the independent-league Sugar Land Skeeters, according to the Associated Press. Clemens is rumored to be mulling a return to the Majors.>>

-MLBTR

Of course, if he makes a MLB roster, his HOF vote will be delayed another 5 years.

which is probably why he would want to do it. Gotta wait it out a while so the whole steroid thing blows over. He's not getting in first ballot anyway.

If he didn't have this allegation, he'd have been first ballot. But then again, maybe he was only first ballot because of it.

We'll never know.

If I were Clemens I would rather pitch in the independent league than pitch for the Astros.

Signing Clemens would be a pure "butt-in-seats" move, for both him and Astros. He'd make league minimum, they'd get revenue for every start in September.

I admit, I'd be curious to see him pitch again in the majors.

He's pitching on Saturday at the age of 50... he's the white Satchel Paige.

The Astros should see where he is after Saturday's start and then sign him. Either way, they will lose most of their games, but some people might actually be there to watch them lose.

The Brewers have 3 games left at home against the Astros at the very end of September.

Who wants to place odds now that Clemens will pitch one of those games? Better yet: Who would go out of their way to see it?

Dodgers awarded waiver claim on Adrian Gonzalez.

Does a deal get done this time? Smart money says no, but I guess you can never be too sure.

I say yes, he'll be there soon.

I would be shocked if that got done. Josh Beckett got claimed by the Dodgers too and I fully expected that DBag to go to a DBag town. Boston will be glad to get rid of him. I hope KRod gets claimed.