Rick Honeycutt Trades and Transactions

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

"We're normal people, too. If they (the fans) got to sit down and have dinner with us, talk with us, I don't think they would react the same way they do when they come to the ballpark and scream and yell." - Rick Honeycutt in Baseball Digest (November 1991, Casey Tefertiller, "Players Express Their Views About the Game and Themselves")

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Rick Honeycutt

Rick Honeycutt Autograph on a 1991 Fleer (#249)

Rick Honeycutt Autograph on a 1991 Fleer (#249)
 

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Birth Name:   Frederick Wayne Honeycutt
Nickname:   Rick
Born On:   06-29-1954  (Cancer)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Chattanooga, Tennessee
Year of Death Data Died On:   Still Living
Place of Death Data Died In:   Still Living
Cemetery:   n/a
High School:   Lakeview High School (Fort Oglethorpe, GA)
College:   University of Tennessee
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   5-11   Player Weight Chart Weight:   190
First Game:   08-24-1977 (Age 23)
Last Game:   05-02-1997
Draft:   1976 : 17th Round (405th)
Rick Honeycutt

Trades & Transactions

06-06-1972: Selected by Baltimore Orioles in the 14th round — free-agent draft, did not sign.
06-08-1976: Selected by Pittsburgh Pirates in the 17th round — free-agent draft.
08-22-1977: Traded by Pittsburgh Pirates to Seattle Mariners for Dave Pagan.
12-12-1980: Traded by Seattle Mariners (with Mario Mendoza, Larry Cox, Leon Roberts and Willie Horton) to Texas Rangers for Richie Zisk, Rick Auerbach, Ken Clay, Jerry Don Gleaton and Brian Allard.
08-19-1983: Traded by Texas Rangers to Los Angeles Dodgers for Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright.
08-29-1987: Traded by Los Angeles Dodgers to Oakland Athletics for Tim Belcher.
11-04-1988: Granted free agency.
12-21-1988: Signed by Oakland Athletics.
10-30-1992: Granted free agency.
12-07-1992: Signed by Oakland Athletics.
11-01-1993: Granted free agency.
11-24-1993: Signed by Texas Rangers.
10-25-1994: Granted free agency.
04-09-1995: Signed by Oakland Athletics.
09-25-1995: Sold by Oakland Athletics to New York Yankees.
12-21-1995: Sold by New York Yankees to St. Louis Cardinals.


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 Rick Honeycutt 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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