Rangers, Rays scouting Dodgers Manny Ramirez

When Manny Ramirez was on a minor league rehabilitation assignment last week with Class-A Inland Empire, the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays had scouts in San Bernardino watching him. The same scouts were at Dodger Stadium over the weekend. The Chicago White Sox made a run at Ramirez at the nonwaiver trade deadline and could provide another landing spot. The wild cards in the equation are the Boston Red Sox, whom a disgruntled Ramirez essentially forced to trade him in 2008. If the Red Sox figure Ramirez would reject a return to Boston, they could submit a claim on him for the sole purpose of blocking his move to a fellow AL contender. — LA Times