Red Sox trade minor leaguer to Reds for $1.5M in bonus allocation  —  BOSTON — The Red Sox traded minor league outfielder Lorenzo Cedrola to the Cincinnati Reds for $1.5 million in international amateur signing bonus pool allocation.  —  The 20-year-old Venezuelan hit .318 with 17 doubles …

Borucki earning rave reviews and comparisons  —  Rookie pitcher Ryan Borucki received rave reviews on Monday from the Rogers Centre crowd, his Blue Jays teammates and manager John Gibbons, who paid the young left-hander the ultimate compliment.  —  Gibbons acknowledged that Borucki …

San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks … Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt was named the National League's player of the month for June.  —  Goldschmidt ranked first among NL players in batting average (.364), hits (39) and runs scored (25) and finished in the top-three in home runs …

John Ricco the hot name to replace Sandy Alderson but JP Ricciardi has support  —  John Ricco has been a constant in the Mets front office since he arrived in 2004.  —  He first served as the assistant general manager to Jim Duquette, and when Omar Minaya replaced Duquette, Ricco stayed on as the No. 2.

The Phillies think they are for real.  Who are we to argue?  |  David Murphy  —  The seating bowl was like a floodplain, its patches of blue expanding steadily throughout the game until the playing surface looked like an island surrounded on all sides by a three-tiered wave.

Indians' Danny Salazar done for season after shoulder surgery  —  CLEVELAND (AP) — Indians right-hander Danny Salazar will miss the remainder of the season after having shoulder surgery.  —  The team said Salazar had an arthroscopic debridement and bursectomy.

Power Rankings: Who is on top at the halfway point?  —  Where things were tighter just a few weeks ago, the voters were unanimous this week in picking the Astros as baseball's No. 1 team after 13 weeks of regular-season baseball.  But just because Houston is riding high doesn't mean clubs …

Cincinnati Reds nearing historic number of grand slams this season  —  Chicago White Sox outfielder Adam Engel, from Loveland, talks about playing the Reds for the first time in his career.  He's expecting more than 100 family members and friends at Monday's game.  The Enquirer/Bobby Nightengale

For starters: Red-hot Rays at Marlins, with a DH-less look  —  UPDATE, 3:18: Here is the Marlins lineup, with former Rays prospect Derek Dietrich (traded in the Dec. 2012 Yunel Escobar deal) batting leadoff:  —  Dietrich lf  —  Anderson rf  —  Realmuto c  —  Bour 1b  —  Castro 2b  —  Riddle ss

Twins Reinstate Jorge Polanco, Option Byron Buxton, Designate Ryan LaMarre  —  2:56pm: In addition to the previously reported moves, the Twins announced that they've optioned lefty Adalberto Mejia to Triple-A. More interesting, though, is the fact that they've reinstated Byron Buxton …

How MLB's analytics revolution is getting to clubhouses  —  Before Sam Fuld appeared in 598 major league games and attracted a following as a scrappy outfielder, he earned an economics degree from Stanford University.  A few years ago, he would have had two choices upon retirement …