1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft

The 1960 MLB expansion draft was held by Major League Baseball on December 14, 1960, to fill the rosters of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators. The Angels and Senators (who later became the Texas Rangers) were new franchises that would enter the American League (AL) the following season as part of the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion. The Angels represented the AL's first team to be based on the West Coast of the United States, while the Senators would take the place of the league's original Washington Senators franchise that had moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul as the Minnesota Twins after the 1960 season.

1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft
General information
SportBaseball
Date(s)December 14, 1960
Overview
61 total selections
LeagueMajor League Baseball
Expansion teams
Expansion season1961
First selectionEli Grba (Los Angeles Angels)

Ground rules

Each existing American League club had to make available for the draft seven players on their active rosters on August 31, 1960, and eight others from their 40-man rosters. The expansion clubs paid US$75,000 for each of 28 players they drafted with a maximum of seven players drafted from each existing club, not including minor league selections. They were required to take at least ten pitchers, two catchers, six infielders, and four outfielders. The clubs also had the option of drafting one non-roster player for $25,000 from each established franchise.

Hasty expansion sowed draft confusion

Reacting belatedly to the National League's July 1960 announcement that it would expand to New York and Houston to begin play in April 1962 (twenty months later), the American League suddenly declared in October 1960 it would add two new teams as well—and that the AL's expansion teams would take the field in only six months, in time for the 1961 season.

Playing catch-up to the National League, under a much tighter deadline with no ownership groups, management or stadia yet in place, the Junior Circuit was forced to wait until November 17, 1960, to officially award an expansion franchise to Washington, D.C.,[1] to replace the recently-relocated Twins. Because it also intended to enter the Los Angeles metropolitan market, then controlled by Walter O'Malley, principal owner of the Dodgers, the American League was compelled to negotiate an indemnification agreement with O'Malley before the Los Angeles franchise could be granted. Finally, on December 6, 1960—barely a week before the expansion draft was scheduled to be held at AL headquarters in Boston—the Angels franchise was officially created and awarded to Gene Autry. The league's chaotic, eleventh-hour approach to expansion resulted, on the day of the draft, in the new Senators' and Angels' noncompliance with rules that governed the maximum number of players each new club could select from each of the eight established teams. As a result, several post-draft trades were necessary to rectify the problem.[1][2]

The situation is described by authors Andy McCue and Eric Thompson in their 2011 Hardball Times article, "Mismanagement 101: The American League Expansion of 1961," also published by the Society for American Baseball Research.

Results
Key
‡ All-Star
Eli Grba, selected by the Los Angeles Angels, was the first overall pick.
Bobby Shantz, the second overall selection, was the top pick of the Washington Senators.
Pick Player Position Selected from Selected by
1 Eli Grba PitcherNew York YankeesLos Angeles Angels
2 Bobby Shantz‡ PitcherNew York YankeesWashington Senators
3 Duke Maas PitcherNew York YankeesLos Angeles Angels
4 Dave Sisler PitcherDetroit TigersWashington Senators
5 Jerry Casale PitcherBoston Red SoxLos Angeles Angels
6 Johnny Klippstein PitcherCleveland IndiansWashington Senators
7 Tex Clevenger PitcherMinnesota TwinsLos Angeles Angels
8 Pete Burnside PitcherDetroit TigersWashington Senators
9 Bob Sprout PitcherDetroit TigersLos Angeles Angels
10 Carl Mathias PitcherCleveland IndiansWashington Senators
11 Aubrey Gatewood PitcherDetroit TigersLos Angeles Angels
12 Ed Hobaugh PitcherChicago White SoxWashington Senators
13 Ken McBride‡ PitcherChicago White SoxLos Angeles Angels
14 Hal Woodeshick‡ PitcherMinnesota TwinsWashington Senators
15 Ned Garver‡ PitcherKansas City AthleticsLos Angeles Angels
16 Tom Sturdivant PitcherBoston Red SoxWashington Senators
17 Ron Moeller PitcherBaltimore OriolesLos Angeles Angels
18 Héctor Maestri PitcherMinnesota TwinsWashington Senators
19 Bob Davis PitcherKansas City AthleticsLos Angeles Angels
20 Rudy Hernández PitcherMinnesota TwinsWashington Senators
21 Ed Sadowski CatcherBoston Red SoxLos Angeles Angels
22 Pete Daley CatcherKansas City AthleticsWashington Senators
23 Buck Rodgers CatcherDetroit TigersLos Angeles Angels
24 Dutch Dotterer CatcherKansas City AthleticsWashington Senators
25 Eddie Yost‡ Third basemanDetroit TigersLos Angeles Angels
26 Coot Veal ShortstopDetroit TigersWashington Senators
27 Ken Aspromonte Second basemanCleveland IndiansLos Angeles Angels
28 Dale Long‡ First basemanNew York YankeesWashington Senators
29 Ken Hamlin ShortstopKansas City AthleticsLos Angeles Angels
30 Jim Mahoney ShortstopBoston Red SoxWashington Senators
31 Gene Leek Third basemanCleveland IndiansLos Angeles Angels
32 Bob Johnson ShortstopKansas City AthleticsWashington Senators
33 Jim Fregosi‡ ShortstopBoston Red SoxLos Angeles Angels
34 Billy Klaus Second basemanBaltimore OriolesWashington Senators
35 Bob Cerv‡ First baseman/OutfielderNew York YankeesLos Angeles Angels
36 Johnny Schaive Second basemanMinnesota TwinsWashington Senators
37 Ken Hunt OutfielderNew York YankeesLos Angeles Angels
38 Willie Tasby OutfielderBoston Red SoxWashington Senators
39 Jim McAnany OutfielderChicago White SoxLos Angeles Angels
40 Gene Woodling‡ OutfielderBaltimore OriolesWashington Senators
41 Earl Averill Jr. Outfielder/CatcherChicago White SoxLos Angeles Angels
42 Marty Keough OutfielderCleveland IndiansWashington Senators
43 Faye Throneberry OutfielderMinnesota TwinsLos Angeles Angels
44 Chuck Hinton‡ OutfielderBaltimore OriolesWashington Senators
45 Ted Kluszewski‡ First basemanChicago White SoxLos Angeles Angels
46 Gene Green CatcherBaltimore OriolesWashington Senators
47 Don Ross InfielderBaltimore OriolesLos Angeles Angels
48 Bud Zipfel First basemanNew York YankeesWashington Senators
49 Julio Bécquer First basemanMinnesota TwinsLos Angeles Angels
50 Jim King OutfielderCleveland IndiansWashington Senators
51 Dean Chance‡ PitcherBaltimore OriolesLos Angeles Angels
52 Joe Hicks OutfielderChicago White SoxWashington Senators
53 Fred Newman PitcherBoston Red SoxLos Angeles Angels
54 Chet Boak Second basemanKansas City AthleticsWashington Senators
55 Red Wilson CatcherCleveland IndiansLos Angeles Angels
56 Dick Donovan‡ PitcherChicago White SoxWashington Senators
57 Steve Bilko First basemanDetroit TigersLos Angeles Angels
58 Leo Burke Third basemanBaltimore OriolesWashington Senators
59 Albie Pearson‡ OutfielderBaltimore OriolesLos Angeles Angels
60 Haywood Sullivan CatcherBoston Red SoxWashington Senators
61 Joe McClain PitcherMinnesota TwinsWashington Senators

References
  1. McCue, Andy, and Thompson, Eric (2011), "Mismanagement 101: The American League's Expansion of 1961." The National Pastime 2011, Archived 2019-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Society for American Baseball Research
  2. Ringolsby, Tracy (8 November 1992), "First Expansion Draft a Slapdash Affair," Scripps-Howard News Service, in the Chicago Tribune
  • "1960 MLB Expansion Drafts". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
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