Elusive Tim Lincecum surfaced again briefly on Twitter.
Kyle Boddy of Driveline Baseball in Kent, Wash., posted a photo of the former Giants right-hander working out at the facility.
“Yes, this is Tim Lincecum at @DrivelineBB,” Boddy tweeted from his KyleB@Driveline account. “Yes, Adam Ottavino took the picture while training here. Yes, Tim will throw for teams at a showcase in the near future. No, I have no other information for you.”
Lincecum’s last showcase for teams was in May 2016 after hip surgery, but he did not enjoy success after signing with the Angels that season, putting up a 9.16 ERA in 381/3 innings.
He did not pitch in 2017, but the two-time Cy Young Award winner is just 33, so he might get offers for a minor-league deal with an invite to big-league camp.
Lincecum was part of all three of the Giants’ World Series championship teams, and he made four All-Star teams before struggling in 2012, putting up a 5.18 ERA, and he couldn’t quite regain his previous form before hip surgery in September 2015.
— Susan Slusser
A’s moves: Oakland acquired catcher Jonah Heim from Tampa Bay as the player to be named in the Joey Wendle trade Dec. 11.
Heim, 22, played for the Rays’ Class A affiliates at Bowling Green and Charlotte and hit .260 with nine home runs and 61 RBIs in 93 games last season.
In addition, the A’s acquired right-handed pitcher Jake Bray from Baltimore as the player to be named in the Jaycob Brugman deal of Nov. 22.
Bray, 25, was 2-5 with 18 saves and a 3.88 ERA in 43 relief appearances with the Orioles’ Class A Delmarva team. He struck out 82 batters in 51 innings and walked 14 while allowing just two home runs.
Luxury-tax hit: The Dodgers will pay baseball’s highest luxury tax for the fourth straight year and the Yankees owe a penalty for a 15th consecutive season, streaks that could end as the sport’s biggest spenders slash payroll for 2018.
The Dodgers owe $36.2 million, according to final figures compiled by the commissioner’s office and obtained by the Associated Press.
New York was second at $15.7 million. The Giants were next at $4.1 million, followed by Detroit at almost $3.7 million and Washington at just less than $1.45 million.
Freak injury for Perez: Texas left-hander Martin Perez broke his non-pitching elbow in a mishap with a bull and is likely to miss the start of the season.
The injury occurred on Perez’s ranch in his native Venezuela. General manager Jon Daniels said Perez told him he was startled by a bull and fell.
Perez was 13-12 with a 4.82 ERA in a team-high 32 starts. After missing most of 2014 and 2015 because of reconstructive surgery on his left elbow, Perez has led the Rangers in starts the past two seasons.