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Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Mets

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and in November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the 11th episode of Fix My Team,...

Carlos Beltran, Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo Skip Mets' Visit to Walter Reed

Almost the entire New York Mets' team and brass packed into a bus on Tuesday afternoon to visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., during their road trip against the Washington Nationals. However, three players -- Carlos Beltran (pictured), Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo -- never showed up. The three...

Six Thoughts: Drafting College QBs, Strasburg's Maturity, Ollie's DL Trip

• The most interesting first-round move in Monday's baseball draft came from the Rockies. Colorado invested the 26th pick overall in Clemson's starting quarterback, Kyle Parker, who still has three years of football eligibility and batted only .255 a year ago. West Coast Bias likes the move, based on what scouts...

MLB Looking Into Oliver Perez's Trip to the Disabled List

The Mets had been fighting with pitcher Oliver Perez for a week about taking a trip to the minors so they could use his roster spot for a pitcher actually capable of contributing something other than heartbreak to the team this season. Perez kept refusing, as is his contractual right, and the two sides seemed to be at an...

Major League Notebook: June 5

Here's what is happening around baseball on Saturday June 5, 2010: • Updating a previous item, it appears Ivan Rodriguez may be able to come off the disabled list in time to catch Stephen Strasburg's big league debut after all. Rodriguez, out with a lower back strain, will run the bases and take batting practice...