A's get OF Hairston from Pads for minor leaguers  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.  —  add this  —  The Oakland A's are always unpredictable at this time of year.

Joba not as hard on himself as everybody else is  —  If you disliked Joba Chamberlain's performance during Sunday's Yankees game, OMG, would you have hated his performance afterward.  —  Yeah, yeah, it's all good here in the Bronx.  The Yankees won again, 10-8, over the Blue Jays …

Are six Red Sox All-Star selections too many?  —  On the field, it was a relatively frustrating weekend for the Red Sox.  Boston lost two out of three games to the mediocre (42-39) Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park, with only a five-run seventh inning today giving the Sox an 8-4 win and preventing …

Tribune Co. reaches deal to sell Cubs, Wrigley  —  Tribune Co. intends to sell the Chicago Cubs to the Ricketts family, sources familiar with the matter said Monday, ending the company's flirtation with another buyer after negotiations with the Rickettses had stalled two months ago.

New York Mets' David Wright looks like he needs a staycation … PHILADELPHIA — David Wright comes from the Derek Jeter School of (None of Your) Business, so he wasn't about to tell a bunch of reporters how he'll spend his off day Monday.  But the Mets third baseman did reveal this much: He won't be anywhere near a batting cage.

Bird feed!  Rallies fall short after Jays pound Pettitte  —  The clutch hits have come with such frequency and the magic moments with such fervor recently that the only question appeared to be which Yankee would be ducking the A.J. Burnett cream pie after yet another late-game comeback.

Aaron Bates gets called up  —  It seems as though Paw Sox first baseman Aaron Bates has finally figured it out.  An all but forgotten Sox prospect, Bates busted onto the scene in Portland after a mediocre Double A season last year, got called up to Pawtucket two months into the season …

A Mets-induced mirage, or money in the Bank?  —  The Mets left town yesterday afternoon the same way they arrived - very quietly - and it would be difficult to blame the Phillies for checking off their rival from the mental list of worries this season.  —  Maybe New York isn't totally dead in the water …

Please don't paint stadium seats orange  —  The site is finally being cleared for a new Marlins baseball stadium, now estimated to cost $634 million.  —  During the long and fractious debate over the project, one critical issue was missing from the agenda: What color should the seats be painted?

Brewers, Braves Not Discussing Vazquez  —  4:35pm: Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spoke with Brewers GM Doug Melvin and heard that the two teams are not discussing a trade for Vazquez.  —  3:40pm: The Brewers heard Ryan Braun's plea for help and they have responded.

Martin Prado of the Atlanta Braves named the National League Player of the Week presented by Bank of America  —  Atlanta Braves infielder Martin Prado, who led the National League with 15 hits and a 1.000 slugging percentage, has been named National League Player of the Week presented by Bank of America for the period ending July 5th.

Phils to scout Pedro in Domincan Republic  —  Club officials will travel to Caribbean to watch veteran hurler  —  PHILADELPHIA — The Phillies have changed their minds on free-agent right-hander Pedro Martinez.  —  The Phillies will watch Martinez throw Monday or Tuesday in the Dominican Republic.

Drew and Ellsbury, a comparison  —  The Red Sox have a once and future leadoff hitter and a current leadoff hitter, and their approaches at the plate and styles on the field hardly could be more different.  You have Jacoby Ellsbury, the jitterbug center fielder who crashes into walls and steals home and …