MB5. Los Angeles Times, Jason Reid, "Dodgers, A's Hit an Impasse", published December 8, 2001. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-08-sp-12904-story.html . Minimal faithful excerpt of first paragraph:
"The Oakland Athletics acquired closer Billy Koch from the Toronto Blue Jays"

This completed acquisition was public before the December 22 blind cutoff. It does not supply Koch's 2002 salary, costs surrendered, or 2002 performance. The rest of the contemporaneous article also discusses a PROPOSED, unsettled three-way trade; do not represent that proposal as a completed Oakland transaction. Copyright Los Angeles Times, brief excerpt for source criticism; link to complete article.
