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Major League Notebook: June 22

Here is what's happening around baseball on Tuesday June 22, 2010: • A.J. Burnett stated the obvious Monday night after absorbing yet another beating, this time at the hands of the Diamondbacks. Burnett is now 0-4 with a 10.35 in four starts this month and it's starting to wear on him. "I don't feel like myself,"...

Major League Notebook: June 4

Here's what is happening around baseball on Friday June 4, 2010: • It's hardly a set of moves to rattle the baseball world, but the Mets did a bit of shaking up Friday by designating veteran outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. for assignment. Matthews, 35, hit just .190 and collected one RBI in 36 games as a reserve this...

Reclamation Projects Zito, Lidge Among NL X-Factors

What to do now that the Super Bowl is over and spring training still hasn't arrived? Here at MLB FanHouse, we Mind the Gap. Once, when Tony La Russa was managing the Oakland A's in the early 1990s, he said that if he had a team of nine Mike Bordicks, his teams would make the playoffs every year. He was trying to explain...

Mets Trade for Gary Matthews, Jr.

With star center fielder Carlos Beltran recently having surgery -- meaning he'll miss at least a month of the regular season -- the Mets were left with a pretty significant hole in their defense. Friday, they made a move to temporarily fill it. The Mets dealt relief pitcher Brian Stokes to the Los Angeles Angels for Gary...

Starting Five: Stealing Home All the Rage

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That Sunday was a good day to steal home in the major leagues. With an assist from Carlos Zambrano, who airmailed a pitch to the backstop as Dewayne Wise attempted to suicide squeeze, Chris Getz was...