Red Sox use first-round pick on Kolbrin Vitek  —  With their first-round draft pick, the Red Sox selected second baseman/outfielder Kolbrin Vitek out of Ball State University.  Vitek hit .361 with 17 homers and 16 steals en route to winning Mid-American Conference Player of the Year honors.

Mock Draft: Draft Day  —  Version 4.0 still finds little to be certain of  —  It's the morning of the draft, and we don't know for certain anything more than we knew heading into the weekend.  JC of Southern Nevada catcher Bryce Harper will go No. 1 overall to the Nationals.

Brewers release Suppan  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  No longer willing to carry Jeff Suppan on their pitching staff merely on the basis of his salary, the Brewers finally decided to part ways with the veteran right-hander by releasing him Monday.

Nationals make Harper the No. 1 pick  —  On Monday night, the Nationals officially did what they've been expected to do for the better part of a year, making 17-year-old Bryce Harper the No. 1 pick in the First-Year Player Draft.  —  Harper, who obtained a GED and enrolled at the College …

2010 MLB mock draft: The final mock draft  —  The final mock draft is predictable at No. 1, but deviates greatly from there

Diamondbacks have problems everywhere  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on MLB on FOX.  Follow him on Twitter.  —  “Organizational advocacy” isn't working out so hot for the Diamondbacks.

End of slump in sight, Rockies' Helton to wear contact lenses  —  Give Todd Helton this: He's being proactive as he fights off the worst slump of his career.  —  Helton, hitting .250 with one home run and 10 RBIs, returned to Denver on Sunday night from the Rockies' road trip to San Francisco and Arizona.

Carlos Silva goes to 8-0 as Cubs finally beat Pirates  —  PITTSBURGH— Carlos Silva extended the best start by a Cubs pitcher in 43 years by allowing one run over seven innings, Ryan Theriot scored four times and Chicago beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 on Monday.

Sources: Pittsburgh Pirates set sights on prep RHP Jameson Taillon … The Pittsburgh Pirates are targeting high school pitcher Jameson Taillon with the second pick in Monday night's Major League Baseball entry draft, sources have told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.

Haeger returns to Dodgers' disabled list  —  Knuckleballer has sprained big toe; reliever Link recalled  —  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers on Monday placed right-handed pitcher Charlie Haeger back on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained right big toe and recalled right-handed reliever Jon Link from Triple-A Albuquerque.

Down to the wire: Who's going where?  —  With the first pick hours away, a final first-round projection  —  Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the last best (educated) guess at what Monday's first round will look like.  —  Teams were still scrambling to figure out who was going there …