1972 Season Transactions
  1. Detroit releases John Cumberland and Don Buford (March 11)
  2. Chicago (N) releases Dave Leonhard and Jim York (March 12)
  3. Atlanta release Cleo James (March 14)
  4. Minnesota releases Joe Grzenda and Jim Roland (March 16)
  5. Chicago (N) trades Randy Hundley to Minnesota for MIN #4 (March 23)
  6. 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)
  7. Pittsburgh releases Byron Browne, Dave Campbell, Al Gallagher, Wade Blasingame and Ron Taylor (March 24)
  8. Chicago (A) releases Coco Laboy, Billy Grabarkewitz, Lance Clemons, Don Shaw and Lew Krausse (March 25)
  9. Chicago (A) trades CHA 1973 #1 to Houston for Don Baylor and HOU 1973 #3 (March 25)
  10. St. Louis releases Joe Gibbon and Mel Queen (March 26)
  11. Philadelphia trades Ron Cey to Houston for HOU #1, Aurelio Rodriguez and Hal McRae (March 27)
  12. Philadelphia trades Ed Spiezio to Minnesota for Tom Haller and Tony Muser (March 27)
  13. Philadelphia releases Jimmy Rosario, Tony Conigliaro (unc), Marcelino Lopez and Al Closter (March 27)
  14. St. Louis releases Ted Uhlaender (March 28)
  15. 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)
  16. Kansas City releases Joe Hague, Rick McKinney, Eddie Leon, Tom Phoebus, Ed Farmer, Bob Gebhard and Boots Day, (March 28)
  17. Atlanta releases Joe Keough (March 29)
  18. 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)
  19. Houston releases Bob Barton, Curt Motton and Ron Perranoski (March 31)
  20. Baltimore releases Jerry Davanon (UNC), Steve Huntz (UNC), John Vukovich (UNC) and Darryl Patterson (UNC) (March 31)
  21. New York (N) releases Sonny Jackson, Jerry Kenney, Roger Repoz, Gary Neibauer, Hoyt Wilhelm and Stan Williams (April 1)
  22. Cleveland releases Dennis Paepke. Jim Lefebvre, Jack Hiatt, Denny McLain, Dan McGinn, Tony Cloninger and Steve Luebber (April 2)
  23. Chicago (N) releases Bill Champion (April 5)
  24. Los Angeles releases Don Han and Gerry Janeski (April 10)
  25. Cincinnati releases JC Martin, Gary Waslewski and Chris Short (April 10)
  26. Detroit releases Phil Gagliano (April 12)
  27. Milwaukee releases Jim Nash, Phil Regan and Ken Wright (April 16)
  28. Houston trades HOU #3 to Kansas City for Ken McMullen (April 27)
  29. Minnesota trades Ken Forsch to Milwaukee for Dick Woodson and Danny Thompson (April 29)
  30. St. Louis trades Duke Sims to Cincinnati for Bill Parsons (May 1)
  31. Atlanta trades Woody Fryman to New York (N) for Tony Perez (May 1)
  32. Houston trades HOU #2 and Orlando Cepeda to Chicago (A) for Frank Howard (May 1)
  33. San Francisco trades Paul Schaal and SF 1973 #2 to Philadelphia for Aurelio Rodriguez (May 1)
  34. Chicago (N) trades Cleon Jones and CHC #4 to St. Louis for STL #3 (May 2)
  35. St. Louis trades STL 1973 #1 and Andy Kosco to Cleveland for Pedro Borbon and Joe Pepitone (May 2)
  36. St. Louis trades Bill Greif to Milwaukee for Steve Barber (May 3)
  37. Minnesota trades Leo Cardenas to New York (N) for Joe Horlen (May 3)
  38. Los Angeles trades Juan Marichal to Chicago (A) for CHW 1973 #3 (May 6)
  39. Milwaukee trades Chris Zachary to Minnesota for MIN 1973 #3 (May 7)
  40. New York (N) trades Duffy Dyer and Rich Morales to Minnesota for Fran Healy, Ed Spiezio and MIN 1973 #4 (May 8)
  41. Cincinnati trades Curt Blefary and CIN 1973 #3 to Chicago (A) for Mike Kilkenny (May 11)
  42. New York (A) releases Billy Cowan (May 15)
  43. St. Louis claims Jim Lytle and releases Bobby Mitchell (UNC) (May 16)
  44. Boston trades Walt Williams and BOS 1973 #7 to Cincinnati for Terry Crowley (May 16)
  45. Chicago (A) claims Rich McKinney and releases Curt Blefary (May 17)
  46. St. Louis claims Bobby Wine and releases Hal Lanier (May 17)
  47. Oakland releases Chuck Brinkman (May 17)
  48. New York (A) claims Charlie Hudson and Steve Lawson; releases Jose Peña and Denny Lemaster (May 17)
  49. San Francisco claims Hal Lanier (May 17)
  50. Minnesota claims Lute Barnes and releases Gail Hopkins (May 20)
  51. Kansas City trades Ted Abernathy to Detroit for Bob Miller and DET 1973 #3 (July4)
  52. St. Louis trades Wes Parker to Minnesota for Jim Hickman (July 26)
  53. St. Louis trades Tom Grieve to Atlanta for Deron Johnson (September 6)
  54. 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)
  55. Cincinnati trades Dick Lange to Oakland for Steve Kealey and BOS 1973 #7 (September 10)
  56. San Francisco trades Bob Locker and SF 1973 #3 to the Chicago (A) for Merv Rettenmund (September 18)
  57. Chicago (N) trades CHC 1973 #3 and Dave Tomlin to Kansas City for Jack Aker (September 18)
  58. Minnesota trades Ron Blomberg to Kansas City for Harmon Killebrew (September 23)
  59. Minnesota trades Diego Segui and MIN 1973 #2 to Los Angeles for Mike Paul and LA 1973 #4(September 24)
  60. Detroit trades Joe Nolan to Los Angeles for Ike Brown (October 1)
  61. Chicago (N) releases Jim Ray Hart and Mickey Scott (October 3)
  62. New York (A) trades Steve Blass and NYY 1973 #7 to Cincinnati for Mike Kilkenny and CIN 1973 #5 (October 7)
  63. Minnesota trades Rowland Office to New York (N) for Bobby Knoop (October 23)