Willis sent to Class A Lakeland  —  Editor's note: Story updated at 4:37 p.m.  —  The Tigers announced this afternoon that they have sent struggling left-hander Dontrelle Willis to their Class-A farm club in Lakeland, Fla., to try to regain his form.  —  The move came in the wake of Willis's exceptionally wild outing Monday night.

Analysis: Minaya's rule a reign of error  —  Manager Willie Randolph (l.) has felt the heat this season, but GM Omar Minaya added injury-prone players ...  You are watching the painfully slow demise of The New Mets, the vision Omar Minaya articulated four years ago but built as a house of cards.

Orioles part ways with Trachsel  —  O's opt to designate veteran RHP for assignment over continued relief role; team selects contract of Norfolk first baseman Salazar  —  Rather than continue to use Steve Trachsel in an unfamiliar relief role, the Orioles decided today to designate him for assignment …

Rocket's game got boost from Viagra  —  Roger Clemens, whose claims he never took steroids are under federal investigation, has apparently discovered the benefits of another performance-enhancing drug sweeping the sports world - Viagra.  —  Clemens stashed the clearly marked …

Mike Mussina on Carl Pavano, and Tom Glavine on Jose Reyes  —  On my trip home from Yankee Stadium early Saturday evening, I finished reading “Living on the Black,” John Feinstein's latest sports book.  Feinstein convinced Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine to open up to him about their 2007 seasons …

A Spot for Kennedy Remains a Question Mark  —  Nearly two weeks after Ian Kennedy was put on the disabled list, the Yankees' rotation may no longer have a spot for him.  Darrell Rasner has been the team's most consistent young pitcher, and Joba Chamberlain, while far from stellar in his tentative …

Yanks' VP of amateur scouting answers fans' questions  —  Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees' vice president of amateur scouting, participated in a live Web chat on Tuesday, and answered questions from fans about the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.  —  Damon Oppenheimer: Hello to all the Yankees fans out there.

Interview - Tim Marchman - New York Sun  —  Whether it's music or television, novels or art, newspapers or alternative media, you have your favorites.  It's a subjective matter, of course; one man's trash is another man's treasure.  Somewhere, there's still a fan of Ugly Kid Joe and Urkel.

600 Words for Junior  —  There was a mark in a parking lot of a Kroger near where I lived.  The mark looked like an “X.”  That, a friend told me, is the spot where Ken Griffey Jr.'s longest high school home run landed.  —  I looked around the parking lot.  There wasn't a baseball field anywhere.

Lawrence signed to Triple-A contract  —  Looking to add options, Braves take gamble on veteran hurler  —  ATLANTA — Brian Lawrence has spent most of the past two years looking to prove he can still pitch at the Major League level.  The Braves are going to at least give him a chance to show he deserves another opportunity.

How fatigue affects a pitcher's fastball  —  How pitchers tire is one of the great unknowns left in baseball.  Ideally, you could measure fatigue by ERA inning by inning, but the problem is not only does fatigue factor in, but so do adjustments by hitters who have now seen the pitcher multiple times.

Q&A WITH MARTY APPEL … WasWatching [WW]: It's been 35 years since you were named PR Director for the Yankees - a post that you manned into 1977.  You've been very busy over this period of time.  If you had to give a “30 second commercial” on what you've been working on since that time …

Sun-Times colleagues go after Jay Mariotti  —  Columnist Jay Mariotti seems to pride himself on making enemies.  He has been called a “pissant” by Jerry Reinsdorf, a “hiney bird” by Hawk Harrelson and much worse by Ozzie Guillen.  —  A recent poll by the irreverent Deadspin.com Web site tabulated …

America's Real Best Ballpark Food  —  We're talkin' ballpark food for this week's Who Cooked It Better, inspired by the New York Times' Travel Section.  Food writer Peter Meehan had the enviable assignment of traveling to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums and sampling their many edible offerings.