Here are your Sunday afternoon PRO Rumors as your watch USA vs. Canada. USA! USA! USA!

• According to Mark Bowman of MLB.com, Braves’ manager Bobby Cox has announced that Derek Lowe will be his Opening Day starter.
• Anthony Witrado and Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel says that when it comes time to talk a long-term deal for Prince Fielder, it will not be a public relations show. “(Agent) Scott (Boras) is very busy and I’m very busy and (general manager) Doug Melvin is maybe the busiest of the three of us. I don’t think there’s any show about it. Ultimately, there will be a meeting of the minds or there won’t be.” This is in response to the perception that the Brewers offered C.C. Sabathia a $100 million contract to stay in Milwaukee as a PR show.
• Brad Bergesen threw a successful and pain-free 28-pitch bullpen session for the Orioles. Bergesen has not pitched since being hit in the left shin by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals’ Billy Butler on July 30. (Jeff Zrabiec, The Baltimore Sun)
• Josh Beckett talks about how he had his family’s well-being in mind when he signed his three-year, $30 million extension in 2006. His advice to young phenoms, “the most important thing with that first contact is for you, if you have a family, you take care of your family. That’s what I’ve done. I’ve put myself in a really good position to basically live the same exact lifestyle I have now without working another day in my life.” (John Tomase, Boston Herald)
• Joe Strauss of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch talks about manager Tony La Russa’s strategy of balancing the playing time of the infield especially with the newly signed Felipe Lopez.