1958 Cincinnati Redlegs Trades and Transactions

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

• December 4, 1957

  Selected Bill Wight off waivers from the Baltimore Orioles.

• December 5, 1957

  Traded Curt Flood and Joe Taylor to the St. Louis Cardinals. Received Marty Kutyna, Willard Schmidt and Ted Wieand.

• December 9, 1957

  Traded Don Gross to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Bob Purkey.

• December 16, 1957

  Traded Wally Post to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Harvey Haddix.

• December 23, 1957

  Signed Jim O'Toole as an amateur free agent.

• December 28, 1957

  Traded Ted Kluszewski to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Dee Fondy.

• Before 1958 Season

  Signed Ken Hunt as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Bob Moorhead as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Chico Ruiz as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Diego Seguí as an amateur free agent.

  Obtained Chuck Coles from Albuquerque (Western) as part of a minor league working agreement.

  Maury Wills sent to the Los Angeles Dodgers in an unknown transaction.

  Released Minnie Mendoza.

• April 3, 1958

  Stan Palys player rights sold to the Detroit Tigers.

• April 11, 1958

  Purchased Jim Fridley from the Detroit Tigers. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

• April 16, 1958

  Signed Vic Davalillo as an amateur free agent.

• April 21, 1958

  Released Diego Seguí.

• April 23, 1958

  Traded Bob Kelly to the Cleveland Indians. Received Fred Hatfield.

• May 5, 1958

  Purchased Chuck Churn from the Cleveland Indians. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

• May 8, 1958

  Traded Hersh Freeman to the Chicago Cubs. Received Turk Lown.

• May 17, 1958

  Signed Eddie Miksis as a free agent.

• May 18, 1958

  Fred Hatfield player rights sold to the Cleveland Indians.

• May 20, 1958

  Released Bill Wight.

• June 15, 1958

  Traded players to be named later, Steve Bilko and Johnny Klippstein to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Received Don Newcombe. The Cincinnati Redlegs sent Art Fowler (June 23, 1958) and Charlie Rabe (June 23, 1958) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.

• June 23, 1958

  Selected Alex Kellner off waivers from the Kansas City Athletics.

  Turk Lown selected by the Chicago White Sox off waivers.

• June 24, 1958

  Selected Walt Dropo off waivers from the Chicago White Sox.

• October 3, 1958

  Traded George Crowe, Alex Grammas and Alex Kellner to the St. Louis Cardinals. Received Del Ennis, Eddie Kasko and Bob Mabe.

• December 2, 1958

  John Oldham selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1958 minor league draft.

  Drafted Dave Stenhouse from the Chicago Cubs in the 1958 minor league draft.

• December 3, 1958

  Traded Nino Escalera to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Luis Arroyo.

• Before 1959 Season

  Signed Johnny Edwards as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Gus Gil as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Tommy Helms as an amateur free agent.

  Signed Bobby Klaus as an amateur free agent.

  Signed César Tovar as an amateur free agent.

  Manny Montejo sent to the Chicago Cubs in an unknown transaction.

• January 7, 1959

  Purchased Frank Kellert from the Boston Red Sox.

• January 30, 1959

  Traded Smoky Burgess, Harvey Haddix and Don Hoak to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Whammy Douglas, Jim Pendleton, John Powers and Frank Thomas.

• March, 1959

  Traded Marty Kutyna to the Kansas City Athletics. Received Walt Craddock.

• March 20, 1959

  Released Eddie Miksis.

• April 1, 1959

  Signed Jim Maloney as an amateur free agent.