This week in Lost in Transactions, several teams underwent significant shuffling. The Oakland Athetics and Cleveland Indians made some wholesale changes, while the Red Sox welcomed back Julio Lugo.

In this week’s edition of Lost in Transactions, we applaud the Mets for picking up Wily Mo Pena. The Brewers look to turn fortunes around with Trevor Hoffman returning and Andrew Miller hit the DL for the Marlins.

Remember when Garry Templeton was better than Ozzie Smith, and Rick Burleson was better than both of them?

In his 37th and final season as a big league GM, did The Mahatma go out with a bang, or a whimper?

After a hiatus, Lost in Transactions is back. This week had plenty of changes, from demotions to trades to injuries. Lastings Milledge and Blake DeWitt were (justifiably?) demoted to Triple-A while hot Rangers prospect Derek Holland landed in the bigs.

TUCK! toons every Thursday!

Onto the fourth year of his five-year rebuilding plan, was Mr. Rickey ready to show any progress? Any?

How did The Mahatma go about cleaning up the mess of his own making?

As an art historian might say when discovering Michelangelo’s unfortunate “Dogs Playing Poker” period … what was that all about?

Ivan Rodriguez finally found a home (so did Sidney Ponson) and plenty of people were reassigned to the minors. Let’s recap the week that was.