I spotted a few things that aren't worth a post by themselves, but still might be interesting. Hence, the diary equivalent of a notes column!

Gotham Baseball says that the Pirates have offered Marte and Chacon to the Mets, but no word on whether there was any interest on their part. It's never a bad idea for a losing team to see what their vets will bring on the open market (especially when they're as sketchy as Chacon), but the team needs to be sure that they get adequate value back in any Marte deal, since he's probably worth 1 or 2 compensatory draft picks if we offer him arb in the offseason.

Rosters for the Futures Game were announced, with Steve Pearce suiting up for the U.S. Team and Serguey Linares representing the World Team. Pearce is there on merit, while Linares is more a reflection of the system's comically poor level of international talent than anything else (each team provides one domestic prospect and one international one).

Tracy's been working Gorzelanny like a rented mule, and fans are starting to take note. If there's one thing I miss about Lloyd, it's his careful handling of young pitchers. Either that, or his ability to speak like a human being during press interactions, instead of a robot in process of failing a Turing test.

It's a bad week to be an ex-Pirate pitcher. Jason Schmidt needs shoulder surgery, Jon Lieber hurt his ankle and had to leave yesterday's start early, and Roberto Hernandez was just released by the Indians (might a return be in the cards?). Francisco Cordova had better watch his back...

Speaking of Hernandez, the draft also lets us tabulate the final terms of the Perez/Nady deal, with the Mets having taken advantage of the two draft picks they received when Hernandez left as a free agent. The 42nd overall was used on Eddie Kunz, a right-handed college reliever, and the 77th overall turned into Scott Moviel, a gigantic right-handed starting pitcher from a high school in Ohio. Kunz is polished but fairly low-ceiling, while Moviel is a boom-or-bust guy with huge potential, similar in many ways to Andrew Brackman.