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On This Day in Baseball History: December 30
Sources Lahman People + MLB StatsAPI0 debuts42 transactions
Every major-league debut, final game, transaction, birth and death recorded for December 30, 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
Transactions42
Born45
Died27
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Los Angeles Dodgers traded LF Esteury Ruiz to Miami Marlins for RHP Adriano Marrero. 2025 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2025 | New York Yankees signed free agent 3B Amed Rosario. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Cleveland Guardians signed free agent RHP Pedro Avila to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Josh Staumont to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2025 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent LHP Tayler Saucedo to a minor league contract. 2025 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Texas Rangers signed free agent DH Joc Pederson. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RHP Corbin Burnes. 2024 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2024 | New York Yankees signed free agent 1B Paul Goldschmidt. 2024 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Chris Flexen. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent C David Bañuelos to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2023 | Baltimore Orioles signed free agent C Michael Perez to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - | |
| 2023 | Atlanta Braves traded SS Vaughn Grissom to Boston Red Sox for LHP Chris Sale and cash. 2023 transaction archive |  |  |
| 2023 | San Diego Padres signed free agent C Kevin Plawecki to a minor league contract. 2023 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Casey Lawrence to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2022 | Washington Nationals signed free agent RHP Odalvi Javier to a minor league contract. 2022 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2020 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent RHP Ofreidy Gomez to a minor league contract. 2020 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent 3B Travis Shaw. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Chicago White Sox signed free agent LHP Dallas Keuchel. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent RF Kole Calhoun. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2019 | Cincinnati Reds signed free agent RHP Tyler Thornburg to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2019 transaction archive | - | |
| 2018 | San Diego Padres traded cash and LHP Clayton Richard to Toronto Blue Jays for RF Connor Panas. 2018 transaction archive | | |
| 2018 | Cincinnati Reds traded LHP Robby Scott to Arizona Diamondbacks for cash. 2018 transaction archive | | |
| 2016 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Stiward Aquino to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2016 | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Faustino Antigua to a minor league contract. 2016 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent LHP Scott Kazmir. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Texas Rangers signed free agent C Michael McKenry to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Texas Rangers signed free agent LHP Donnie Veal to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent RHP Michael Crotta to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2015 | Detroit Tigers signed free agent LF Chad Huffman to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Miami Marlins signed free agent C Cam Maron to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - | |
| 2015 | Colorado Rockies signed free agent OF Wasner Peguero to a minor league contract. 2015 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2014 | Seattle Mariners traded RHP Brandon Maurer to San Diego Padres for RF Seth Smith. 2014 transaction archive |  | |
| 2014 | Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Jorge De Leon to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2014 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | Texas Rangers traded 1B Chris McGuiness to Pittsburgh Pirates for RHP Miles Mikolas. 2013 transaction archive | |  |
| 2013 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent 2B Justin Henry to a minor league contract. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | Washington Nationals signed free agent 2B Will Rhymes to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2013 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent RHP Rafael Dolis to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2013 | San Francisco Giants signed free agent RHP Sandy Rosario to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2013 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Seattle Mariners signed free agent LHP George Sherrill. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | New York Mets signed free agent CF Corey Wimberly to a minor league contract. 2011 transaction archive | - |  |
| 2011 | Miami Marlins signed free agent 3B Gil Velazquez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| 2011 | Boston Red Sox signed free agent John Maine. 2011 transaction archive | - | |
| Year | Player |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Drew Waters |
| 1997 | John Rave |
| 1995 | Derek Hill |
| 1994 | Nick Hernandez |
| 1993 | Wyatt Mathisen |
| 1991 | Cesar Vargas |
| 1989 | Erik Johnson |
| 1989 | Tyler Anderson |
| 1988 | Bryce Brentz |
| 1988 | Danny Burawa |
| 1988 | Drew Rucinski |
| 1985 | Sean Gallagher |
| 1982 | Jim Hoey |
| 1977 | Grant Balfour |
| 1976 | A. J. Pierzynski |
| 1976 | Brad Voyles |
| 1975 | Santiago Perez |
| 1973 | Ralph Milliard |
| 1971 | Travis Baptist |
| 1970 | Bart Evans |
| 1970 | Ben Blomdahl |
| 1969 | Steve Gajkowski |
| 1967 | Archie Corbin |
| 1955 | Keith MacWhorter |
| 1953 | Steve Davis |
| 1945 | Tom Murphy |
| 1944 | Bob Schroder |
| 1944 | Jose Morales |
| 1935 | Sandy Koufax |
| 1931 | Frank Torre |
| 1930 | Milt Graff |
| 1929 | Bill Taylor |
| 1923 | Harry Elliott |
| 1919 | Pete Layden |
| 1906 | Ray Prim |
| 1905 | John Pomorski |
| 1901 | Dick Porter |
| 1892 | Tom Connolly |
| 1890 | Jim Viox |
| 1889 | LaRue Kirby |
| 1888 | Ovid Nicholson |
| 1878 | Clarence Currie |
| 1877 | Charlie Miller |
| 1856 | John Morrissey |
| 1851 | Ed Caskin |
| Year | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mark Bradley | 68 |
| 2023 | Chuck Harrison | 82 |
| 2011 | Ted Beard | 90 |
| 2005 | Bobby Stevens | 98 |
| 1998 | Jack Graham | 82 |
| 1993 | Tom Alston | 67 |
| 1981 | Josh Billings | 90 |
| 1980 | Stuffy Stewart | 86 |
| 1974 | Al Shaw | 93 |
| 1968 | Dick Marlowe | 39 |
| 1963 | Wilbur Good | 78 |
| 1962 | Joe Boley | 66 |
| 1959 | Lew Whistler | 91 |
| 1958 | Glenn Spencer | 53 |
| 1958 | Jim Hickman | 66 |
| 1951 | Bob Kinsella | 52 |
| 1949 | Doc Watson | 64 |
| 1946 | Pat McGehee | 58 |
| 1940 | Bill Childress | - |
| 1934 | George Henry | 71 |
| 1916 | Reddy Mack | 50 |
| 1913 | Joe Neale | 47 |
| 1906 | Henry Porter | - |
| 1903 | Dan Leahy | 33 |
| 1898 | Bill Stearns | 45 |
| 1896 | Dave Birdsall | 58 |
| 1894 | Jack McMahon | 25 |
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 December 30.
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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