Odds & Ends: Bonds, Armas, Strasburg

Links for Wednesday…

• MLB.com's Joe Frisaro says the Royals received righty Eric Basurto as the player to be named later in the Ross Gload trade.
• Tom Glavine hopes to pitch in the Majors this month, according to MLB.com's Mark Bowman.
• Back on May 3rd, Bill Shaikin of the L.A. Times wrote about the possibility of Barry Bonds signing with the independent league Long Beach Armada (the team already employs Hideki Irabu and Jose Lima).  But Bonds' agent Jeff Borris said, "He's not going to do that."
• It appears that Tony Armas Jr. signed a minor league deal with the Braves after the Mets released him.
• Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News says Padres beat writer Tom Krasovic of the San Diego Union-Tribune will be out of a job come August.  Sorry to hear it; Krasovic does excellent work.
• MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo talked to Tony Gwynn about Stephen Strasburg.
• Johnny Damon talked about his future again, this time with MLB.com's Bryan Hoch.
• Jim Thome would like to return to the White Sox next year, based on his comments to MLB.com's Scott Merkin.