Major League Baseball roundup

Diamondbacks: Arizona has agreed to terms with first baseman Lyle Overbay on a one-year contract. Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin Towers announced the deal Friday but didn’t disclose any financial details. The 34-year-old Overbay hit .286 with one home run, four doubles and 10 RBI in 18 games after signing with Arizona as a free agent on Aug. 13. He was released by Pittsburgh earlier last season. Overbay was selected by the Diamondbacks in the 18th round of the 1999 draft and played for Arizona in parts of the 2001-03 seasons. He also has played for Milwaukee and Toronto over his 11-year career.

Nationals-Tigers: The Washington Nationals acquired Ryan Perry from the Detroit Tigers for Collin Balester on Friday in a swap of right-handed relievers who split 2011 between the majors and minors. Perry went 5-6 with two saves and a 4.07 ERA in 161 1-3 innings across 149 relief appearances over three seasons with Detroit. In 2011, he was 2-0 with a 5.35 ERA in 36 appearances for the Tigers, and 3-0 with a 3.03 ERA in 20 games at Triple-A Toledo. He was a first-round draft pick out of the University of Arizona in 2008. Ryan was expendable because the Tigers reached an agreement on a one-year deal with Octavio Dotel. Balester was 5-16 with a 5.17 ERA in 62 games — 40 in relief — from 2008-11 in Washington. Last season, he was 1-4 with a 4.54 ERA in 23 appearances for the Nationals, and 2-1 with a 4.35 ERA in 28 games at Triple-A Syracuse. He was drafted in the fourth round in 2004 by the Montreal Expos, the franchise that moved to Washington in 2005.

Bonds: Federal prosecutors want home run king Barry Bonds to spend the next few seasons in prison. In court papers filed late Thursday, government lawyers urged a federal judge to sentence Bonds to 15 months in prison for his conviction of obstructing justice by providing evasive testimony to a federal grand jury probing the BALCO steroids scandal in December 2003. Prosecutors called Bonds’ denials of ever using performance enhancing drugs “patently false.” “Bonds’ actions were the product of a calculated plan to obfuscate and distract the grand jury from its role in getting to the truth in the BALCO inquiry,” prosecutors wrote. A federal jury in April convicted the 47-year-old Bonds of one obstruction count, deadlocking on three other perjury charges against him. Federal sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of 15 to 21 months.

Cubs: Ian Stewart is glad to be in Chicago. He just doesn’t necessarily subscribe to the philosophy in baseball where a struggling player can leave one franchise and recapture his talent in a new locale. Stewart hit 25 homers two years ago for the Colorado Rockies but last year batted only .156 as he battled injuries and was demoted to Triple-A. He was traded along with minor league pitcher Casey Weathers from the Rockies to the Cubs for infielder DJ LeMaheiu and outfielder Tyler Colvin. The Cubs are counting on Stewart to regain his form and take the third base spot vacated when Aramis Ramirez left for free agency.

Associated Press