This week in baseball

The final week before the July 31 deadline for making trades without waivers started with a bang yesterday when the Los Angeles Angels acquired starting pitcher Dan Haren from the Arizona Diamondbacks for pitcher Joe Saunders, two minor league players and a PTBNL. Maybe this opens up the market a little more for the Orioles to deal some of their one-year vets, but what it really does is show that the Angels aren't satisfied with having even one down year. They're seven games behind the surprising Texas Rangers in the American League West, but they've got two months to bounce back and they decided to make a real run at it. Obviously, the Rangers were serious, too, since they already had picked up Cliff Lee for the stretch run. Before you get all hot and bothered about the Orioles inactivity, at least be realistic. There are some real players out there on the market and there are some teams jockeying for the chance to acquire them. Right now, Ty Wigginton and Migu...