Odds & Ends: Nady, Doumit, Boyer

Links for Tuesday…

• SI.com's Jon Heyman says Xavier Nady will not require elbow surgery and may return within a month.
• Bad news for the Pirates: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says catcher Ryan Doumit will likely miss 8-10 weeks due to wrist surgery.
• Dave Cameron of FanGraphs says Matt Murton belongs in the Majors.
• Wallace Matthews and Ken Davidoff of Newsday each write about Jason Giambi's time in New York.
• With news that Demetri Martin will play Paul DePodesta in the Moneyball movie, Jon Weisman says not to judge the film before watching it.  Personally I am looking forward to the movie.  Martin is hilarious and Brad Pitt can be very good (12 Monkeys being the best example).
• Joel Sherman of the New York Post wonders why the Mets paid Fernando Tatis $1.7MM if they weren't committed to using him.
• Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has quotes from Cardinals GM John Mozeliak about the Brian Barton–Blaine Boyer swap.
• Via NPB Tracker, a comeback for Hideki Irabu?
• RotoAuthority looks at Geovany Soto's slow start.