| Pos | Player (Team) | This Yr | Yrs Left | Raise |
|---|
| 2B | Addy, Bob
(Sluggers) | $11 | FA | |
| SS | Barlow, Tom
(White Stockings) | $9 | FA | |
| OF | Bielaski, Oscar
(Red Stockings) | $7 | FA | |
| SP | Brainard, Asa
(Athletics) | $5 | FA | |
| OF | Cuthbert, Ned
(Athletics) | $6 | FA | |
| SS | Fulmer, Chick
(Red Stockings) | $7 | FA | |
| OF | Gedney, Count
(Sluggers) | $7 | FA | |
| OF | Hatfield, John
(Red Stockings) | $5 | FA | |
| C | Hicks, Nat
(White Stockings) | $10 | FA | |
| 1B | Mack, Denny
(Sluggers) | $6 | FA | |
| C | Malone, Fergy
(Sluggers) | $10 | FA | |
| 1B | Mills, Everett
(Athletics) | $6 | FA | |
| 2B | Nelson, Candy
(Athletics) | $6 | FA | |
| OF | Pabor, Charlie B.
(White Stockings) | $6 | FA | |
| OF | Radcliffe, John
(Athletics) | $9 | FA | |
| OF | Reach, Al
(White Stockings) | $4 | FA | |
| OF | Remsen, Jack
(Sluggers) | $8 | FA | |
| 3B | White, Warren
(White Stockings) | $8 | FA | |
| OF | Wright, Harry B.
(Red Stockings) | $5 | FA | |
| OF | York, Tom
(Sluggers) | $6 | FA | |
| 3B | Anson, Cap
(Sluggers) | $10 | 2 | $0 |
| 2B | Barnes, Ross
(Red Stockings) | $16 | 2 | $0 |
| 2B | Beals, Tommy
(Sluggers) | $10 | 1 | |
| SP | Bechtel, George P.
(Red Stockings) | $4 | 1 | |
| OF | Bechtel, George B
(Red Stockings) | $9 | 1 | |
| 3B | Boyd, Bill
(White Stockings) | $6 | 1 | |
| 3B | Burdock, Jack
(Red Stockings) | $5 | 4 | $0 |
| SS | Carey, Tom
(Athletics) | $6 | 3 | $0 |
| C | Clapp, John
(Athletics) | $10 | 3 | $0 |
| 2B | Craver, Bill
(Red Stockings) | $9 | 2 | $0 |
| SP | Cummings, Candy P.
(Red Stockings) | $11 | 3 | $0 |
| 1B | Dehlman, Herman
(Athletics) | $4 | 2 | $0 |
| 1B | Devlin, Jim
(White Stockings) | $4 | 3 | $0 |
| OF | Eggler, Dave
(Athletics) | $10 | 1 | |
| 3B | Ferguson, Bob
(Athletics) | $6 | 4 | $0 |
| SP | Fisher, Cherokee
(Red Stockings) | $4 | 2 | $0 |
| 1B | Fisler, Wes
(Sluggers) | $6 | 1 | |
| 3B | Force, Davy
(Athletics) | $7 | 2 | $0 |
| SS | Gerhardt, Joe
(White Stockings) | $6 | 4 | $0 |
| 1B | Glenn, John
(Sluggers) | $6 | 2 | $0 |
| OF | Hall, George
(Athletics) | $9 | 2 | $0 |
| C | Hastings, Scott
(Athletics) | $5 | 1 | |
| OF | Hines, Paul
(Red Stockings) | $10 | 4 | $0 |
| 3B | Holdsworth, Jim
(White Stockings) | $9 | 2 | $0 |
| OF | Leonard, Andy
(Sluggers) | $7 | 1 | |
| 2B | Manning, Jack B
(Athletics) | $7 | 3 | $0 |
| SP | Mathews, Bobby
(White Stockings) | $3 | 2 | $0 |
| SP | McBride, Dick
(Sluggers) | $6 | 2 | $0 |
| C | McGeary, Mike
(Sluggers) | $6 | 1 | |
| OF | McMullin, John B.
(Red Stockings) | $7 | 1 | |
| OF | McVey, Cal
(Red Stockings) | $16 | 2 | $0 |
| 2B | Meyerle, Levi
(White Stockings) | $14 | 2 | $0 |
| 1B | O'Rourke, Jim
(Athletics) | $9 | 3 | $0 |
| SS | Pearce, Dickey
(Sluggers) | $8 | 1 | |
| OF | Pike, Lip
(Red Stockings) | $9 | 4 | $0 |
| SP | Spalding, Al
(Sluggers) | $7 | 2 | $0 |
| 1B | Start, Joe
(White Stockings) | $11 | 1 | |
| SP | Stearns, Bill
(Athletics) | $6 | 1 | |
| 3B | Sutton, Ezra
(Red Stockings) | $11 | 2 | $0 |
| OF | Treacey, Fred
(Athletics) | $5 | 1 | |
| C | White, Deacon
(Sluggers) | $10 | 2 | $0 |
| SS | Wright, George
(Sluggers) | $16 | 2 | $0 |
| SP | Zettlein, George
(Sluggers) | $6 | 2 | $0 |
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