The Athletics are getting quite a few calls about reliever Craig Breslow, but they aren't motivated to trade him. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reported the interest on Twitter. "A's drawing heavy interest in LHR Craig Breslow, but not motivated to move him. Team serious about building momentum going forward," Rosenthal wrote on his Twitter page.

Athletics right-hander Ben Sheets could miss the remainder of the season after he was placed on the disabled list Saturday. Sheets said his elbow has swelled far more than usual his past few starts. "It's possible," he said of missing the rest of the season. "I don't know. I don't like the fact it's so swollen. It's been so up and down the last two weeks, so up and down all year." Sheets will visit his own orthopedist in Dallas on Tuesday. He already has been checked by Oakland's doctors, and general manager Billy Beane said the team will wait to disclose a diagnosis until Sheets gets a second opinion. "We wouldn't want to speculate," Beane said. "We'll have a more definitive diagnosis after that."

The Athletics signed catcher Kurt Suzuki to a four-year contract extension on Friday worth a guaranteed $16.25 million. The contract kicks in this season, superseding the one-year $420,000 deal Suzuki had in place. There's a vesting option for 2014 based on Suzuki's starting a minimum number of games in 2013.

The Athletics have placed right-hander Ben Sheets on the disabled list because of an injury to his elbow. The injury is to the same elbow that required surgery in 2009 and forced him to miss that entire season. Sheets was put on the DL for the seventh time in his career.

Athletics outfielder Ryan Sweeney will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery on his injured right knee. Sweeney was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with right patella tendinitis. He is expected to be ready for spring training prior to the 2011 season. "It got to a point where it was very painful for him," manager Bob Geren said. "It was recommended that to go on in the future and to feel 100 percent healthy, this was the right way to go."

The A's are not expecting to seriously shop Ben Sheets. "I don't want to comment on individual players but, in our situation, I don't anticipate us being that active at the trade deadline," said Billy Beane.

Major League Baseball warned the Angels last week about the possibility of riots in Oakland this weekend if a verdict comes down in the case of a transit officer who is on trial for shooting an unarmed man on a train platform. The case, which involves a white officer and a black victim, has sparked racial tensions in the East Bay, so the trial was moved to Los Angeles. The Angels, who are scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area late Thursday night for a weekend series in Oakland, are staying in a San Francisco hotel and will bus to Oakland Coliseum. "I don't anticipate anything. We're going to play baseball," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously, it's a high-visibility trial and I'm sure there are going to be emotional reactions, but we're going to play baseball. I don't anticipate any issues."

The Yankees will battle the Athletics in Oakland starting Monday night and the A's are capitalizing on New York's last trip to the West Coast. A feud between Alex Rodriguez and Dallas Braden was born on April 22 when the third baseman ran across the mound when Braden was pitching. The A's are selling shirts that say, "Get off my mound." "It looks like the A's are making light of the situation," Braden was quoted saying in Monday's San Francisco Chronicle. "In some ways, it might keep what happened alive."

The Athletics have placed starting pitcher Dallas Braden on the disabled list with elbow stiffness. Braden hasn't pitched since June 22 and was scratched initially from his scheduled start on Tuesday against the Orioles. He had hoped to start on Saturday against the Indians. Braden is 0-5 in eight starts since pitching a perfect game against Tampa Bay on May 9.

Athletics starter Dallas Braden had a pain-free bullpen session and expects to start on Saturday in Cleveland. Braden was scratched from his scheduled start on Tuesday because of elbow tightness. Oakland bullpen catcher Landon Powell said Braden threw hard and "looked completely normal." Since throwing a perfect game against Tampa Bay on May 9, Braden is 0-5 in eight games.