- 1972 Season Transactions
- Detroit releases John Cumberland and Don Buford (March
11)
- Chicago (N) releases Dave Leonhard and Jim York (March
12)
- Atlanta release Cleo James (March 14)
- Minnesota releases Joe Grzenda and Jim Roland (March 16)
- Chicago (N) trades Randy Hundley to Minnesota for MIN #4
(March 23)
- San Francisco releases Rich Chiles, Ron Stone, Syd O'Brien,
Ron Swoboda, Chuck Dobson (UNC), Joe Hoerner, Bill Butler, Ron
Kilimkowski and Ken Tatum (March 24)
- Pittsburgh releases Byron Browne, Dave Campbell, Al Gallagher,
Wade Blasingame and Ron Taylor (March 24)
- Chicago (A) releases Coco Laboy, Billy Grabarkewitz, Lance
Clemons, Don Shaw and Lew Krausse (March 25)
- Chicago (A) trades CHA 1973 #1 to Houston for Don Baylor and
HOU 1973 #3 (March 25)
- St. Louis releases Joe Gibbon and Mel Queen (March 26)
- Philadelphia trades Ron Cey to Houston for HOU #1, Aurelio
Rodriguez and Hal McRae (March 27)
- Philadelphia trades Ed Spiezio to Minnesota for Tom Haller and
Tony Muser (March 27)
- Philadelphia releases Jimmy Rosario, Tony Conigliaro (unc),
Marcelino Lopez and Al Closter (March 27)
- St. Louis releases Ted Uhlaender (March 28)
- Oakland releases Mike Ryan, Ellie Hendricks, Donn Clendenon,
Don Mincher, Marty Martinez, Bobby Wine, Art Shamsky, Ron Hansen,
Bob Didier and Bill Wilson (March 28)
- Kansas City releases Joe Hague, Rick McKinney, Eddie Leon, Tom
Phoebus, Ed Farmer, Bob Gebhard and Boots Day, (March 28)
- Atlanta releases Joe Keough (March 29)
- Boston releases Ray Newman, Tom Dukes, John Morris, Mike
McQueen, Duane Josephson, Larry Stahl, Roy Foster, Lee Richard,
Norm Miller and Hector Torres (March 31)
- Houston releases Bob Barton, Curt Motton and Ron Perranoski
(March 31)
- Baltimore releases Jerry Davanon (UNC), Steve Huntz (UNC),
John Vukovich (UNC) and Darryl Patterson (UNC) (March 31)
- New York (N) releases Sonny Jackson, Jerry Kenney, Roger
Repoz, Gary Neibauer, Hoyt Wilhelm and Stan Williams (April
1)
- Cleveland releases Dennis Paepke. Jim Lefebvre, Jack Hiatt,
Denny McLain, Dan McGinn, Tony Cloninger and Steve Luebber (April
2)
- Chicago (N) releases Bill Champion (April 5)
- Los Angeles releases Don Han and Gerry Janeski (April 10)
- Cincinnati releases JC Martin, Gary Waslewski and Chris Short
(April 10)
- Detroit releases Phil Gagliano (April 12)
- Milwaukee releases Jim Nash, Phil Regan and Ken Wright (April
16)
- Houston trades HOU #3 to Kansas City for Ken McMullen (April
27)
- Minnesota trades Ken Forsch to Milwaukee for Dick Woodson and
Danny Thompson (April 29)
- St. Louis trades Duke Sims to Cincinnati for Bill Parsons (May
1)
- Atlanta trades Woody Fryman to New York (N) for Tony Perez
(May 1)
- Houston trades HOU #2 and Orlando Cepeda to Chicago (A) for
Frank Howard (May 1)
- San Francisco trades Paul Schaal and SF 1973 #2 to
Philadelphia for Aurelio Rodriguez (May 1)
- Chicago (N) trades Cleon Jones and CHC #4 to St. Louis for STL
#3 (May 2)
- St. Louis trades STL 1973 #1 and Andy Kosco to Cleveland for
Pedro Borbon and Joe Pepitone (May 2)
- St. Louis trades Bill Greif to Milwaukee for Steve Barber (May
3)
- Minnesota trades Leo Cardenas to New York (N) for Joe Horlen
(May 3)
- Los Angeles trades Juan Marichal to Chicago (A) for CHW 1973
#3 (May 6)
- Milwaukee trades Chris Zachary to Minnesota for MIN 1973 #3
(May 7)
- New York (N) trades Duffy Dyer and Rich Morales to Minnesota
for Fran Healy, Ed Spiezio and MIN 1973 #4 (May 8)
- Cincinnati trades Curt Blefary and CIN 1973 #3 to Chicago (A)
for Mike Kilkenny (May 11)
- New York (A) releases Billy Cowan (May 15)
- St. Louis claims Jim Lytle and releases Bobby Mitchell (UNC)
(May 16)
- Boston trades Walt Williams and BOS 1973 #7 to Cincinnati for
Terry Crowley (May 16)
- Chicago (A) claims Rich McKinney and releases Curt Blefary
(May 17)
- St. Louis claims Bobby Wine and releases Hal Lanier (May
17)
- Oakland releases Chuck Brinkman (May 17)
- New York (A) claims Charlie Hudson and Steve Lawson; releases
Jose Peña and Denny Lemaster (May 17)
- San Francisco claims Hal Lanier (May 17)
- Minnesota claims Lute Barnes and releases Gail Hopkins (May
20)
- Kansas City trades Ted Abernathy to Detroit for Bob Miller and
DET 1973 #3 (July4)
- St. Louis trades Wes Parker to Minnesota for Jim Hickman (July
26)
- St. Louis trades Tom Grieve to Atlanta for Deron Johnson
(September 6)
- St. Louis trades STL 1973 #2, Pedro Borbon, Sam McDowell,
Cleon Jones and Gates Brown to New York (A) for Darold Knowles,
Ted Abernathy, Moe Drabowsky and Matty Alou (September 6)
- Cincinnati trades Dick Lange to Oakland for Steve Kealey and
BOS 1973 #7 (September 10)
- San Francisco trades Bob Locker and SF 1973 #3 to the Chicago
(A) for Merv Rettenmund (September 18)
- Chicago (N) trades CHC 1973 #3 and Dave Tomlin to Kansas City
for Jack Aker (September 18)
- Minnesota trades Ron Blomberg to Kansas City for Harmon
Killebrew (September 23)
- Minnesota trades Diego Segui and MIN 1973 #2 to Los Angeles
for Mike Paul and LA 1973 #4(September 24)
- Detroit trades Joe Nolan to Los Angeles for Ike Brown (October
1)
- Chicago (N) releases Jim Ray Hart and Mickey Scott (October
3)
- New York (A) trades Steve Blass and NYY 1973 #7 to Cincinnati
for Mike Kilkenny and CIN 1973 #5 (October 7)
- Minnesota trades Rowland Office to New York (N) for Bobby
Knoop (October 23)