1976 Houston Astros Trades and Transactions

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

• December 6, 1975

  Traded Jim Crawford, Milt May and Dave Roberts to the Detroit Tigers. Received Terry Humphrey, Mark Lemongello, Gene Pentz and Leon Roberts.

• December 8, 1975

  Drafted Gil Rondón from the California Angels in the 1975 rule 5 draft.

• December 9, 1975

  Released Wayne Granger.

• December 11, 1975

  Traded Doug Rader to the San Diego Padres. Received Larry Hardy and Joe McIntosh.

• December 12, 1975

  Traded Tommy Helms to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received a player to be named later. The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Art Howe (January 6, 1976) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.

  Traded players to be named later to the Cincinnati Reds. Received Joaquín Andújar. The Houston Astros sent Luis Sánchez (December 12, 1975) and Carlos Alfonso (minors) (December 12, 1975) to the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade.

• December 23, 1975

  Traded Manny Lantigua (minors) to the New York Mets. Received Craig Cacek.

• Before 1976 Season

  Signed Rich Chiles as a free agent.

• January 7, 1976

  Drafted Gary Wilson in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1976 amateur draft (January).

• January 8, 1976

  Jim York player rights sold to the New York Yankees.

• May 29, 1976

  Signed Pete Hernández as an amateur free agent.

• June 6, 1976

  Traded Mike Barlow and Terry Humphrey to the California Angels. Received Ed Herrmann.

• June 8, 1976

  Drafted Floyd Bannister in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Ron Musselman in the 2nd round of the 1976 amateur draft (June Secondary), but did not sign the player.

  Drafted Reggie Baldwin in the 3rd round of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Jim Pankovits in the 4th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Tom Wiedenbauer in the 7th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Dave Smith in the 8th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Gary Rajsich in the 11th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

  Drafted Bert Roberge in the 17th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

• August 3, 1976

  Tom Griffin selected by the San Diego Padres off waivers.

• November 23, 1976

  Traded Jerry DaVanon and Larry Dierker to the St. Louis Cardinals. Received Bob Detherage and Joe Ferguson.

• November 29, 1976

  Signed Jim Fuller as a free agent.

• December 6, 1976

  Rich Chiles drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1976 rule 5 draft.

• December 8, 1976

  Traded Greg Gross to the Chicago Cubs. Received Julio González.

• January 11, 1977

  Drafted John Butcher in the 1st round (5th pick) of the 1977 amateur draft (January Secondary), but did not sign the player.

• January 12, 1977

  Traded Skip Jutze to the Seattle Mariners. Received Alan Griffin (minors) and cash.

• January 25, 1977

  Traded Paul Siebert to the San Diego Padres. Received Mike Allen (minors).

• March 26, 1977

  Traded Rob Andrews and cash to the San Francisco Giants. Received Willie Crawford and Rob Sperring.

• March 30, 1977

  Traded Larry Milbourne to the Seattle Mariners. Received Roy Thomas.