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Odds & Ends: Lee, Orioles, Cubs, Oswalt, Chipper

Links for Wednesday, before Pedro Alvarez makes his MLB debut...

• Jack Curry of the YES Network (via Twitter) hears from a baseball official that the Phillies are interested in adding a starting pitcher. Curry specifically names Cliff Lee, though I can't imagine the team re-acquiring him just a few months after shipping him to Seattle.
• The Orioles have contacted Buck Showalter about managing the team, according to Tim Kurkjian of ESPN.com.
• The Cubs hired a statistical analyst for the team's baseball operations department, according to ESPN.com's Bruce Levine.
• Jon Heyman of SI.com hears that it's an "extreme long shot" that the Rangers acquire Roy Oswalt.
• One GM told ESPN.com's Buster Olney that teams are now demanding big returns for players who will eventually be traded for less.
• DJ Bean of WEEI.com introduces us to Red Sox fourth rounder Garin Cecchini, who told every major league team he wouldn't sign for less than mid-first-round money. Specifically, Cecchini wants $1.75MM, according to Bean.
• White Sox GM Kenny Williams told Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune that he hasn't given up on his team and wants to see how it fares over the course of the coming week.
• Chipper Jones' agent, B.B. Abbott, told Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports that Chipper will "absolutely not" retire during the season.
• The Yankees released David Winfree from their Triple A team, according to Donnie Collins of the Times-Tribune.
• Joel Sherman of the New York Post points out that the Yankees won't have to pursue free agents Carl Crawford and Jayson Werth if Brett Gardner, Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson keep playing this well.

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