The Billy Beane trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Billy Beane has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.
"If you are a David in a land of Goliaths, you'd better learn something fast: You cannot beat the big boys at their own game. In baseball, that means you cannot outspend the competition; you won’t outbid them for big-ticket free agents or even realistically expect to keep your own homegrown stars long-term. That means you must be nimble and quick, and sometimes, just maybe come up with a plan that will change baseball. The Athletics may have done just that the last couple of years, defying all odds to win back-to-back American League West titles. For that creativity and nimbleness, Billy Beane is Baseball America's Major League Executive of the Year." - Sportswriter Casey Tefertiller (Baseball America, Executive of the Year: Oakland's Billy Beane, 12/03/2013)
Billy BeaneBilly Beane Autograph on a 1987 Fleer Baseball Card (#535 | Checklist) |
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06-03-1980 | Selected by New York Mets in the 1st round (23rd pick overall) of the free-agent draft (June 3, 1980). |
01-16-1986 | Traded by New York Mets with Bill Latham and Joe Klink to Minnesota Twins in exchange for Tim Teufel and Pat Crosby (January 16, 1986). |
03-24-1988 | Traded by Minnesota Twins to Detroit Tigers in exchange for Balvino Galvez (March 24, 1988). |
10-15-1988 | Granted free agency (October 15, 1988). |
11-30-1988 | Signed by Oakland Athletics (November 30, 1988). |
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Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?
The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.
Baseball trades & transactions, like the Billy Beane trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.