Happy New Year everyone!

Lost in Transactions rounds up the meager moves over holiday week.

So sayeth Robo. No financial details yet. Just that it’s, as expected, a one year deal. My big bold Boxing Day prediction: the Giants get more out of the Big Unit in 2009 than the Yankees get out of Burnett.

I wasn’t a big fan of Lance Niekro: First Baseman, but this is something I can get behind: Twenty years have passed since a Niekro threw a knuckleball in a major-league game. Lance Niekro, the longtime Giants infield prospect, now hopes to become the next to keep the family craft alive. Niekro, who as recently […]

Lost in Transactions covers a very busy week in Las Vegas.

Randy Johnson’s agent is talking about San Francisco, but if he’s being honest, there is a lot of interest in the Big Unit right now: Randy Johnson is being wooed by both Bay Area teams. He seems to prefer the Giants. “Randy’s really interested,” one of his agents, Barry Meister, said Thursday, the final day […]

The Merc’s Andrew Baggarly is reporting — well, he’s not really reporting as much as passing along the rumor — that CC Sabathia has turned down the Yankees’ offer and that the Giants are slowly entering the picture: It’s been confirmed to me that the Giants had discussions with CC Sabathia’s camp last night, and […]

At least that’s what KTVU’s Lloyd LaCuesta believes he has discovered: KTVU’s Lloyd La Cuesta came up with a letter from Bud Selig to Lew Wolff stating: “I have decided that in the event you are not able to promptly assure the implementation of the desired park in Fremont, you may begin to discuss a […]

Lost in Transactions recaps the week that was, with the Braves snapping up Javier Vazquez and the Padres dumping Khalil Greene.

Anyone who enjoyed Wezen-Ball’s post about the fun predictions contained in the 1981 Sporting News Preview should click on over to Scott Simkus’ blog, where he has unearthed a 1926 interview with John McGraw in which Little Napoleon makes a few predictions and historical observations of his own. The predictions aren’t as bold — McGraw […]