Greg Goossen Trades and Transactions

The Greg Goossen trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Greg Goossen has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"We got a kid here named Greg Goossen, twenty years old, and in ten years he's got a chance to be thirty." - Casey Stengel in Ball Four (Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter, 1970, Page 284)

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Greg Goossen

Greg Goossen Autograph on Renato Galasso (#33)

Greg Goossen Autograph on Renato Galasso (#33)
 

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Birth Name:   Gregory Bryant Goossen
Nickname:   Greg
Born On:   12-14-1945  (Sagittarius)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Los Angeles, California
Year of Death Data Died On:   02-26-2011
Place of Death Data Died In:   Sherman Oaks, California
Cemetery:   None (Body Donated to UCLA Medical School)
High School:   Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, CA)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   210
First Game:   09-03-1965 (Age 19)
Last Game:   10-01-1970
Draft:   Undrafted Free Agent
Greg Goossen

Trades & Transactions

06-01-1964: Signed as an amateur free agent by Los Angeles Dodgers.
04-09-1965: Claimed on first-year waivers by New York Mets from Los Angeles Dodgers.
02-05-1969: Sold by New York Mets to Seattle Pilots.
07-14-1970: Sold by Milwaukee Brewers to Washington Senators.
11-03-1970: Traded by Washington Senators (with Jeff Terpko and Gene Martin) to Philadelphia Phillies for Curt Flood and Jeff Terpko.


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 Greg Goossen 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.

     

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