Highlighted entries:
2001
The Mariners get 2-time All-Star 3B Jeff Cirillo from the Rockies in exchange for Ps Jose Paniagua, Dennis Stark, and Brian Fuentes.
There are people in Seattle who are still upset about this trade. Cirillo just didn't work out for the Mariners. Additionally, Stark and Fuentes are both ex-Rattlers.
1993
The White Sox sign free agent DH Julio Franco.
I've lost track, did Franco sign with anyone for 2007 yet?
1923
Al Szymanski, 21, who signed with his hometown Milwaukee club in the spring and was farmed out to Shreveport, is traded. Connie Mack secured the rights to his contract while he was at Shreveport; at the end of the season he reported to Milwaukee and hit .398 in 24 games. Scorekeepers change his name to Al Simmons. The A's send IF Heinie Scheer and outfielders Wid Mathews and Frank "Beauty" McGowan to Milwaukee for the Simmons sleeper.
Did you know that scorekeepers had the power to officially change names?
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