Waiver wire: Add Tracy, Jones

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chad Tracy, 1B/3B, Diamondbacks

With the news that Eric Byrnes is out for the year comes dramatic increase in playing time for Charlotte and East Carolina native Chad Tracy.

Tracy is starting almost every day now - when he's not spelled for Tony Clark - but the big news here is that he's hitting cleanup for the D'backs.

Arizona's lineup isn't filled with world beaters, no, but they have a ton of young bats that have life and Tracy has filled up the RBI column with 18 ribbies in the last month. To give some perspective, 18 RBI is tied for 27th best of all hitters and is the same number of runs driven in by Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez. Ever heard of 'em?

Tracy has also hit .360 over the past 30 days and while he's only hit 5 HR in 42 games, he does have 25-HR potential over a full season and now that he's fully healthy, he's hitting plenty of gaps (3 doubles in last 5 games).


AMERICAN LEAGUE

Adam Jones, OF, Orioles

In spring training, I asked Jones how often he would be stealing bases and his response: "As much as I can."

Well, so much for that. . that hasn't exactly translated into fantasy relevance, with only 8 SB in almost four months, but the other numbers are all up to par.

Benefiting from a move to the 2nd slot in the batting order, Jones now hits between Brian Roberts and Nick Markakis, so he's seeing plenty of fastballs.

With just 6 HR for the season, Jones has really poured it on in the past month, ranked 63rd by Yahoo!, posting 17 runs, 16 RBI and a .341 average.