Archive for the 'Transactions' Category

It’s year one for Mister Rickey in Pittsburgh. What kind of a start does he pull off?

It was a slow week as the clubs started trimming the excess fat off their spring training rosters while crossing their fingers that their players playing in the World Baseball Classic don’t get hurt.

Shining a light into the lone dark alley of The Mahatma’s long and brilliant career.

If only changing one’s luck were as easy as changing one’s name.

The Atlanta Braves finally got a hitter to come to Turner Field while the Washington Nationals started step one of moving past the Esmailyn Gonzalez scandal with the resignation of general manager Jim Bowden. Unfortunately, whoever takes over will find logjams at first base and center field. Read on for this past week’s transactions…

A-Rod free for two Thursdays!

Oh, yeah, they were bad enough in real life. But that performance may actually have been their best-case scenario.

With the first week of spring training out of the way, Ken Griffey Junior returned home to his former stomping grounds while the Orioles locked up the face of their franchise through 2013. All that, and more, in this week’s edition of Lost in Transactions.

Lots of moves occurred this past week: the Chicago Cubs dumped off two pitchers while the Philadelphia Phillies locked up Ryan Howard for three years.