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On This Day in Baseball History: October 16
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts26 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for October 16, 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 games4
Transactions26
Born56
Died34
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| No major-league debuts are recorded for this date. | ||
| Year | Player | That season |
|---|---|---|
| 1888 | Ed Keas | 1888 postseason |
| 1888 | Walt Goldsby | 1888 postseason |
| 1884 | Jerry Sweeney | 1884 postseason |
| 1884 | Tom Evers | 1884 postseason |
| Year | Move | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Marco Arcia to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Alistair Tanner to a minor league contract. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | New York Mets signed free agent RHP Jermayne Verdu to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Endrys Briceno to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Darcy Longstaff to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Kansas City Royals signed free agent RHP Yohan Baez to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2021 | Oakland Athletics signed free agent RHP Dany Jimenez to a minor league contract. 2021 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2019 | Houston Astros signed free agent RHP Chanderson Perez to a minor league contract. 2019 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2018 | Miami Marlins traded RF Adonis Giron and LHP Brayan De Paula to Houston Astros for Future Considerations. 2018 transaction archive |  | |
| 2018 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Gabriel Aguilera to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Williams Yanez to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Jose Franco to a minor league contract. 2018 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Atlanta Braves signed free agent C Blake Lalli to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2016 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Carlos Romero to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | St. Louis Cardinals signed free agent C Erik Garcia to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent RHP Luis Ramirez to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Orlandy Navarro to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Cleveland Indians signed free agent SS Bryan Brito to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent RHP Chris Peacock to a minor league contract. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Tampa Bay Rays traded LHP Sean Bierman and 3B Ben Kline to Chicago White Sox. 2013 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2013 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Andrew Case to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Hector Guance to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | New York Mets signed free agent OF Anthony Dirocie to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent C Mikell Granberry to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2012 | Detroit Tigers traded RHP Marcelo Carreno to Chicago Cubs. 2012 transaction archive | |  |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Phillies signed free agent LHP Sergio Velis to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Noelvi Marte |
| 1995 | Jonathan Bermúdez |
| 1992 | Bryce Harper |
| 1992 | Rosell Herrera |
| 1991 | Edgar Santana |
| 1991 | Jonathan Schoop |
| 1990 | Kyle Lloyd |
| 1985 | Enerio Del Rosario |
| 1981 | Anthony Reyes |
| 1971 | Larry Mitchell |
| 1970 | Scott Davison |
| 1969 | Matt Ruebel |
| 1967 | Josias Manzanillo |
| 1965 | Darren Reed |
| 1961 | Billy Taylor |
| 1961 | Dave Stapleton |
| 1959 | Brian Harper |
| 1959 | Kevin McReynolds |
| 1956 | Dan Firova |
| 1955 | Kurt Seibert |
| 1954 | Chris Bourjos |
| 1954 | Mike Dimmel |
| 1953 | Rodney Scott |
| 1950 | Hugh Yancy |
| 1950 | Jeff Terpko |
| 1949 | Don Hood |
| 1942 | Pete Lovrich |
| 1941 | Tim McCarver |
| 1940 | Dave DeBusschere |
| 1936 | Jack Baldschun |
| 1935 | Manny Montejo |
| 1931 | Dave Sisler |
| 1928 | Len Yochim |
| 1924 | Bob Cain |
| 1921 | Matt Batts |
| 1919 | Ed Bahr |
| 1915 | Paul Masterson |
| 1909 | Oliver Hill |
| 1907 | Bill Breckinridge |
| 1904 | Boom-Boom Beck |
| 1901 | Al Yeargin |
| 1900 | Goose Goslin |
| 1900 | Nick Cullop |
| 1897 | Garland Buckeye |
| 1896 | John Brock |
| 1895 | Bill Skiff |
| 1894 | Mike Menosky |
| 1890 | Milo Allison |
| 1888 | Jake Kafora |
| 1886 | Harry Fanwell |
| 1885 | Dan Howley |
| 1883 | Lew Groh |
| 1881 | Moxie Manuel |
| 1879 | Art Devlin |
| 1866 | Fred Lake |
| 1856 | George Strief |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jack McMahan | 88 |
| 2018 | Dave Hill | 80 |
| 2018 | Wayne Krenchicki | 64 |
| 2012 | Eddie Yost | 86 |
| 2011 | Don Williams | 80 |
| 2010 | Valmy Thomas | 84 |
| 2009 | Jose Herrera | 67 |
| 2006 | Tony Curry | 68 |
| 1998 | Frank Carswell | 78 |
| 1995 | Joe Szekely | 70 |
| 1993 | Jimmie DeShong | 83 |
| 1972 | Johnny Rawlings | 80 |
| 1971 | Dave Coble | 58 |
| 1969 | Larry Boerner | 64 |
| 1968 | Ellis Kinder | 54 |
| 1962 | Ray Powell | 73 |
| 1959 | Frank Okrie | 62 |
| 1959 | Herb Bradley | 56 |
| 1959 | Sled Allen | 73 |
| 1954 | Dave Davenport | 64 |
| 1949 | Jack Ryan | 65 |
| 1945 | Hack Eibel | 51 |
| 1939 | Nick Allen | 51 |
| 1938 | Joe Knight | 79 |
| 1936 | Dennis Fitzgerald | - |
| 1934 | Howard Wilson | 56 |
| 1932 | Frank Eustace | 58 |
| 1926 | Charlie Levis | 66 |
| 1916 | Henry Killeen | - |
| 1904 | Mike Slattery | 37 |
| 1901 | Jim Duncan | 30 |
| 1895 | Kid Summers | - |
| 1894 | Ed Conley | 30 |
| 1888 | Ed Duffy | - |
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 October 16.
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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