1972 Cleveland Indians Trades and Transactions

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

• November 29, 1971

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

• December 2, 1971

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

• 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 (January).

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

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

• January 17, 1972

  Released Chuck Hinton.

• March 29, 1972

  Purchased Marcelino López from the Milwaukee Brewers.

• April 3, 1972

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

• April 12, 1972

  Purchased Ron Lolich from the Chicago White Sox.

• June 6, 1972

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

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

  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

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

• July 10, 1972

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

• July 11, 1972

  Purchased Bill Butler from the Kansas City Royals.

• September 18, 1972

  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

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

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

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

• November 30, 1972

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

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

• December 7, 1972

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

• Before 1973 Season

  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 Vince Colbert and Rich Hinton.

• March 24, 1973

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