Baseball may be over, but check out our Football, Basketball, and Hockey Sites.
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Cleveland Indians > 1972 Trades and Transactions
1972 Cleveland Indians (Franchise Encyclopedia: 1971/1973)
72-84, Finished 5th in AL Eastern Division
View League Standings and Leaders
Scored 472 runs, Allowed 519 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 71-85
Managed by Ken Aspromonte

Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 626,354 (11th of 12)
Park Factors
  (multi-year):
Batting - 104, Pitching - 106
  (one-year): Batting - 109, Pitching - 109
  Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.

BR Bullpen: Minor League Affiliates
BaseballAmerica.com: Team Executives
Baseball Hall of Fame: Team Uniforms
News & ViewsThinkFactoryBallHypeArmchairGM
BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this team (what's this?)

Play free baseball sim games

Like this page? Sponsor it for $10.

  

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1972 Stats / Schedule / Transactions (1971/1973) / Lineups / Batting Orders / SplitsBat / Pitch / GamelogsBat / Pitch / Amateur Draft

Transactions listed are from November 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.

November 29, 1971

Traded Sam McDowell to the San Francisco Giants. Received Gaylord Perry and Frank Duffy.

December 2, 1971

Traded Roy Foster, Ken Suarez, Mike Paul, and Rich Hand to the Texas Rangers. Received Del Unser, Denny Riddleberger, Terry Ley, and Gary Jones.

December 6, 1971

Purchased Adolfo Phillips from the Montreal Expos.

Traded Ted Uhlaender to the Cincinnati Reds. Received Milt Wilcox.

January 12, 1972

Drafted Eric Raich in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1972 amateur draft.

Drafted Duane Kuiper in the 1st round (21st pick) of the 1972 amateur draft (Secondary Phase).

Drafted Don Collins in the 2nd round of the 1972 amateur draft (Secondary Phase), but did not sign the player.

January 17, 1972

Released Chuck Hinton.

March 29, 1972

Purchased Marcelino Lopez from the Milwaukee Brewers.

April 3, 1972 (Standings)

Traded Ted Ford to the Texas Rangers. Received Roy Foster and Tommy McCraw.

April 12, 1972 (Standings)

Purchased Ron Lolich from the Chicago White Sox.

June 6, 1972 (Standings)

Drafted Rich Dauer in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1972 amateur draft (Secondary Phase), but did not sign the player.

Drafted Rick Manning in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1972 amateur draft.

Drafted Dennis Eckersley in the 3rd round of the 1972 amateur draft. Player signed June 12, 1972.

Drafted Mike Armstrong in the 9th round of the 1972 amateur draft, but did not sign the player.

Drafted Pete Redfern in the 10th round of the 1972 amateur draft, but did not sign the player.

Drafted Dan O'Brien in the 27th round of the 1972 amateur draft, but did not sign the player.

Drafted Rick Langford in the 36th round of the 1972 amateur draft, but did not sign the player.

June 11, 1972 (Standings)

Traded Fred Stanley to the San Diego Padres. Received Mike Kilkenny.

July 10, 1972 (Standings)

Traded Jim Clark to the Kansas City Royals. Received Tom Hilgendorf.

July 11, 1972 (Standings)

Purchased Bill Butler from the Kansas City Royals.

September 18, 1972 (Standings)

Selected Lowell Palmer off waivers from the St. Louis Cardinals.

October 19, 1972

Traded Eddie Leon to the Chicago White Sox. Received Walt Williams.

November 2, 1972

Traded Kurt Bevacqua to the Kansas City Royals. Received Mike Hedlund.

November 27, 1972

Traded Phil Hennigan to the New York Mets. Received Bob Rauch and Brent Strom.

Traded Graig Nettles and Jerry Moses to the New York Yankees. Received John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes, and Rusty Torres.

November 28, 1972

Drafted Dick Colpaert from the Kansas City Royals in the 1972 rule 5 draft.

November 30, 1972

Traded Vince Colbert to the Texas Rangers. Received Tom Ragland.

Traded Del Unser and Terry Wedgewood (minors) to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Oscar Gamble and Roger Freed.

December 7, 1972

Traded Mike Carruthers (minors) to the Montreal Expos. Received Remy Hermoso.

1973

Ossie Blanco received from the Chicago Cubs in an unknown transaction.

January 15, 1973

Signed Pedro Guerrero as an amateur free agent.

March 6, 1973

Selected Jerry Johnson off waivers from the San Francisco Giants.

March 8, 1973

Traded Alex Johnson to the Texas Rangers. Received Rich Hinton and Vince Colbert.

March 24, 1973

Traded Ray Fosse and Jack Heidemann to the Oakland Athletics. Received Dave Duncan and George Hendrick.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.

1971/1973

Compare     Other Links@google.com   Report an error

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Cleveland Indians > 1972 Trades and Transactions
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.