Roy Halladay offers will be considered, Toronto Blue Jays GM says  —  Toronto Blue Jays General Manager J.P. Ricciardi has spoken with Roy Halladay and prepared him for the possibility that he will bring trade possibilities to the pitcher in the weeks or months ahead.

Game 83: Yankees at Twins (Updates: Aceves to start Thurs., Halladay talk and Girardi pre-game audio)  —  YANKEES (48-34)  —  Pitching: LHP CC Sabathia (7-5, 3.85).  —  TWINS (43-40)  —  Span LF  —  Harris SS  —  Mayer C  —  Morneau 1B  —  Cuddyer RF  —  Crede 3B  —  Young DH

White Sox acquire Pena from D-backs  —  Addition of right-hander bolsters bullpen stockpile  —  CHICAGO — Prior to Tuesday's game, the White Sox announced the acquisition of relief pitcher Tony Pena from the D-backs in exchange for Minor League infielder Brandon Allen.

Ryan Dempster could miss month with broken toe  —  Chicago Cubs starter hurt it trying to run on field for celebration  —  A young fan in the crowd laughs as Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster tumbles over the dugout railing after Sunday's victory and breaks his toe.  (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune / July 5, 2009)

Marlins close to adding vet Williamson  —  Right-handed reliever last pitched in Majors in 2007  —  MIAMI — The Marlins are adding another veteran reliever to their system.  —  According to a Major League source, the team is finalizing the signing of right-hander Scott Williamson to a Minor League contract.

Seeking a Way to Predict Baseball Injuries  —  LOS ANGELES — Beyond the massage tables and stacks of athletic tape in the Dodgers' cramped training room stands a dry-erase board with scribbled questions like “Fat?  Skinny?” and “Country of origin?  Region of the country they grew up in?”

Belisario to have MRI  —  First concrete development indicating that I might have been on the wrong side of the bullpen debate.  From Dylan Hernandez of The Times: … Belisario's pitch counts the past two weeks:  —  Date 6/20 6/21 6/22 6/23 6/24 6/25 6/26 6/27 6/28 6/29 6/30 7/1 7/2 7/3 7/4 7/5 7/6

WEE CHANGE FOR YANKEES  —  Yankee fans are now at liberty to go to the bathroom during the playing of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch, thanks to a settlement reached yesterday in Manhattan federal court.  —  Signing off on the deal were the Yankees …

Would having Manny really be so bad?  —  Remember when news first broke of Manny Ramirez's 50-game suspension, how Mets fans everywhere had this huge sigh of relief?  Close call, they thought.  That could have been us!  But flash forward two months, and do Mets fans still feel that way?  Doubtful.

Parra likely for Thursday  —  Updating my post from a few hours ago, it appears that Manny Parra will return to the Brewers' starting rotation on Thursday against the Cardinals.  Manager Ken Macha wouldn't confirm who will pitch that game, but he did lay out his rotation for the rest of the week:

Vazquez has too much value for Braves to move  —  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  —  Teams can call all they want on right-hander Javier Vazquez, but why would the Braves trade him?

Reds recover, rally past Phillies 4-3  —  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brandon Phillips already had a pair of homers when he came to the plate with the go-ahead run on second in the ninth inning.  The cleanup hitter had no problem sacrificing.  —  After losing the previous two games by a combined score of 32-2 …

Stars help Red Sox rebound  —  Josh Beckett, Jason Bay & Co. show way past A's  —  + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email  —  A night after a visitor (Nomahh) drew more cheers than the home starter (Smoltzie), the Red Sox [team stats] and their fans behaved much more like themselves last night.

GIRARDI CALLS OUT JETER AFTER BAD CALLS BEDEVIL YANKEES  —  BLUE JAYS 7 YANKEES 6  —  The ABCs of baseball conspired yesterday to end the Yankees' homestand on a sour note.  —  “Atrocious” starting pitching, “brutal” umpiring and “Captain” Jeter were the culprits.