Offseason news, 1904-1905
• The St. Louis Browns traded 30-year-old 3B Ed Gremminger to the Washington Senators, getting 28-year-old RHP Jim Buchanan and 23-year-old LHP Beany Jacobson in return.
• The New York Giants traded 24-year-old RHP Bobby White to the Washington Senators, getting 30-year-old LHP Case Patten in return.
• The New York Highlanders traded 21-year-old RHP Cecil Ferguson to the St. Louis Browns, getting 30-year-old RHP Tully Sparks in return.
• The New York Highlanders traded 24-year-old RHP Nick Williams and 24-year-old CF William Hurley to the Philadelphia Phillies, getting 35-year-old SSP Monte Cross in return.
• The Boston Americans traded 20-year-old RHP Gordon Hickman and 23-year-old LF Joe Bewer to the Philadelphia Athletics, getting 34-year-old CF Tommy Raub in return.
• The St. Louis Browns traded 31-year-old RF John Anderson to the Detroit Tigers, getting 24-year-old RHP Mike Lynch in return.
• The Washington Senators traded 23-year-old RHP Wish Egan and 24-year-old RHP Lucky Wright to the St. Louis Cardinals, getting 36-year-old LF Jesse Burkett in return.
• The Philadelphia Athletics traded 24-year-old RF Harry McChesney to the Philadelphia Phillies, getting 30-year-old RHP Bill Duggleby in return.
• The Chicago Cubs traded 23-year-old RHP Bill Hogg to the Chicago White Sox, getting 33-year-old CF Fielder Jones in return.
• The New York Giants traded 28-year-old 2B Sammy Strang to the Philadelphia Phillies, getting 32-year-old RHP Al Orth, 23-year-old LF Claude Rossman, and 23-year-old RHP Tom Dougherty in return.
• The Washington Senators traded 17-year-old RHP Dick Rudolph to the St. Louis Cardinals, getting 34-year-old 2B Dick Padden and 24-year-old LF Jack Hayden in return.
• No one is inducted into the 1904 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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