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On This Day in Baseball History: February 21
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts98 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for February 21, newest first. Player names link to career pages where one exists, and each season links onward to that year’s awards and postseason archives.
Debuts0
Final games0
Transactions98
Born55
Died37
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No major-league debuts are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No final games are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent 3B Ramón Urías. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent LHP Riley Cooper to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Johnathan Lavallee to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - | |
| 2026 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent RHP Brian Zeldin to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent RHP Brendan White to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Carson Fulmer to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent SS Alex Madera to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent SS Jaylen Palmer to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - | |
| 2026 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent LHP Colin Poche to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2026 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent 2B Alejo Lopez to a minor league contract. 2026 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Houston Astros signed free agent 2B Brendan Rodgers to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Miami Marlins signed free agent IF Juan Alva to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Ross Stripling to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent 1B Rowdy Tellez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Mike Clevinger to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent 1B Trey Mancini to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LHP Ryan Yarbrough to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Miami Marlins signed free agent IF Juan Alva to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent 2B Jamie Westbrook to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent SS Omari Daniel to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent LHP Brady Feigl to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | San Diego Padres signed free agent RHP Reiss Knehr to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent 2B Matthew Batten to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Ralph Sierra to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - | |
| 2025 | Texas Rangers signed free agent OF Marco Argudin to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent SS Amed Rosario. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Brandon Woodruff. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent C Gary Sánchez. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Diosmerky Taveras to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent RHP Dalvin Bodre to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent RHP Amilcar Medina to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Adrian Sampson to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | San Diego Padres signed free agent RHP Humberto Cruz to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2024 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent RHP Esteban Luna to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent 1B Luke Voit to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent CF Tyler Naquin to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Ashton Goudeau to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres signed free agent RF Daniel Johnson to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres signed free agent LHP Jared Koenig to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Emilio Rosario to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent LF Jayson Bass to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent OF Jayson Bass to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2022 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent LHP Wes Benjamin to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - | |
| 2022 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent CF Agustin Acosta to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Juan Bello to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent RHP Aaron Sanchez. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | San Diego Padres signed free agent C Wynston Sawyer to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Kevin Pillar. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves released RHP Jason Creasy. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent LF Travis Demeritte to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | San Francisco Giants signed P Shun Yamaguchi. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | San Francisco Giants signed P Shun Yamaguchi. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | San Diego Padres signed free agent C Wynston Sawyer. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent 2B Travis Demeritte. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Kevin Pillar. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Kevin Pillar. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Kevin Pillar. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2021 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Kevin Pillar. 2021 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent 2B Brock Holt. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent RHP Zack Weiss to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Jose Pacheco to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent OF Randel Mondesi to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2020 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent SS Sean Miller to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | San Diego Padres signed free agent SS Manny Machado. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | New York Mets signed free agent C Jose Hernandez to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent 3B Trevor Plouffe to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent 2B D.C. Arendas to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent LHP Jesus Chavez to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Miami Marlins signed free agent LF Cameron Maybin. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent RHP Chris Tillman. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Joaquin Benoit. 2018 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Texas Rangers traded RHP Miguel Medrano to Cincinnati Reds for Future Considerations. 2018 transaction archive | | |
| 2018 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RF Michael Saunders to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent LF Colby Rasmus to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | New York Yankees traded RF Jabari Blash to Los Angeles Angels for Player To Be Named Later. 2018 transaction archive |  | |
| 2018 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent SS Francis Franco to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent LF Fabricio Macias to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Texas Rangers released 3B Trevor Plouffe. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2017 | New York Yankees traded LHP Richard Bleier to Baltimore Orioles for Player To Be Named Later. 2017 transaction archive | | |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Jeremy Guthrie to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers signed free agent LHP Michael Roth to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | San Diego Padres signed free agent RHP Grant Zawadzki to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LF Chris Dickerson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Brandon Beachy. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers released C Ali Solis. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent CF Travis Witherspoon to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2014 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent C Cody Clark to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Chris Young to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Chicago Cubs traded RHP Chris Carpenter to Boston Red Sox. 2012 transaction archive | |  |
| 2012 | New York Yankees signed free agent LF Raul Ibanez. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Cleveland Indians traded LHP Kelvin De La Cruz to Texas Rangers. 2012 transaction archive | | |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent Brian Anderson. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Rick Bauer to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Mike Schultz to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent OF Michael Depen to a minor league contract. 2012 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Minnesota Twins signed free agent RHP Felix Jorge to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent RHP Liberio Bohorquez to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent LHP Anderson Polanco to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Harry Ford |
| 2001 | Dalton Rushing |
| 2001 | Porter Hodge |
| 2000 | Bo Naylor |
| 2000 | Ty Madden |
| 1995 | CD Pelham |
| 1995 | Kodi Whitley |
| 1994 | Sam Hilliard |
| 1994 | Zach Remillard |
| 1993 | Jesus Reyes |
| 1992 | Ian Miller |
| 1992 | Ryan Merritt |
| 1991 | Devon Travis |
| 1990 | Brad Goldberg |
| 1988 | Tyler Lyons |
| 1983 | Franklin Gutierrez |
| 1982 | Edwin Bellorin |
| 1981 | Adam Greenberg |
| 1981 | Tsuyoshi Wada |
| 1978 | Rene Reyes |
| 1977 | Chad Hutchinson |
| 1975 | Brandon Berger |
| 1971 | Jeff Schmidt |
| 1965 | Oscar Azocar |
| 1963 | Jim Olander |
| 1961 | Joel Skinner |
| 1958 | Alan Trammell |
| 1953 | Rick Lysander |
| 1948 | Bill Slayback |
| 1947 | Charlie Walters |
| 1947 | Terry Ley |
| 1945 | Tom Shopay |
| 1943 | Jack Billingham |
| 1943 | Joe Foy |
| 1942 | Fred Newman |
| 1940 | Doug Gallagher |
| 1936 | Ted Savage |
| 1924 | Lloyd Hittle |
| 1914 | Milt Gray |
| 1907 | Snipe Hansen |
| 1896 | Dick McCabe |
| 1896 | Turkey Gross |
| 1893 | Marsh Williams |
| 1893 | Norman Plitt |
| 1890 | George Beck |
| 1886 | Alex Remneas |
| 1881 | Sam Fletcher |
| 1880 | Joe Hughes |
| 1880 | Lucky Wright |
| 1879 | Ed Smith |
| 1876 | John Titus |
| 1875 | Luther Taylor |
| 1870 | Bill Duzen |
| 1867 | Jouett Meekin |
| 1850 | Z. H. Taylor |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Albie Pearson | 88 |
| 2021 | Charlie Gorin | 93 |
| 2014 | Eddie O'Brien | 83 |
| 2014 | Hector Maestri | 78 |
| 2010 | George Strickland | 84 |
| 2007 | Sherman Jones | 72 |
| 2006 | Mark Freeman | 75 |
| 2003 | Rusty Peters | 88 |
| 2002 | Bill Faul | 61 |
| 1999 | George Gill | 90 |
| 1999 | Vinegar Bend Mizell | 68 |
| 1989 | Chet Ross | 71 |
| 1982 | Ray Shearer | 52 |
| 1978 | Slicker Parks | 82 |
| 1975 | Steve Filipowicz | 53 |
| 1973 | Gilly Campbell | 65 |
| 1972 | Phil Hensiek | 70 |
| 1970 | Joe Shaute | 70 |
| 1970 | Tom Carey | 63 |
| 1969 | Eddie Murphy | 77 |
| 1967 | Lou Tost | 55 |
| 1959 | Hunter Hill | 79 |
| 1953 | Buck Freeman | 56 |
| 1948 | Irv Ray | 84 |
| 1946 | Bill Cunningham | 59 |
| 1945 | Paul Radford | 83 |
| 1944 | Jack Enzenroth | 58 |
| 1941 | Frank Corridon | 60 |
| 1940 | John Taber | 71 |
| 1938 | George Merritt | 57 |
| 1934 | Jim Roxburgh | 76 |
| 1934 | Merle Adkins | 61 |
| 1932 | John Peters | 38 |
| 1927 | Ike Rockenfield | 50 |
| 1918 | John Fogarty | 53 |
| 1914 | Farmer Vaughn | 49 |
| 1901 | Dennis Driscoll | 38 |
About these records
Every dated event on this page is read directly from the source tables: debuts, final games, birth dates and death dates from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, People table), used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, and transactions from the official MLB StatsAPI transactions archive captured through 2026-10-22. Nothing is inferred: a record appears here only when the source carries a complete month and day for February 21.
Honesty notes: the staged People table records complete dates or none, and no partial dates had to be excluded. Missing dates are not unknowns everywhere: an empty death date means the player is living (10,918 rows), an empty final-game date means no end date is recorded (1,932 rows), and 398 rows have no birth date. Early records reach back to the 1870s; 19th-century dates reflect the best retrospective research in the source and are shown exactly as recorded. Award winners and postseason series are staged by season with no calendar day in the source, so they are linked from each season above instead of being dated here. The transaction window covers 2011 to 2026 only. Player names link to career pages for every player who has one.
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