1995 New York Yankees season

The New York Yankees' 1995 season was the 93rd season for the Yankees, their 71st playing home games at Yankee Stadium. Managed by Buck Showalter, the team finished with a record of 79-65, seven games behind the Boston Red Sox. They won the first American League Wild Card. In the playoffs, they would squander a 2–0 series lead, losing three straight games at The Kingdome and succumb to the Seattle Mariners in five games.

1995 New York Yankees
1995 AL Wild Card
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record79–65 (.549)
Divisional place2nd
Other information
Owner(s)George Steinbrenner
General manager(s)Gene Michael
Manager(s)Buck Showalter
Local televisionWPIX
(Phil Rizzuto, Bobby Murcer, Paul Olden)
MSG
(Jim Kaat, Dave Cohen, Al Trautwig)
Local radioWABC (AM)
(Michael Kay, John Sterling)
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Offseason

Regular season
  • On May 29, 1995, Derek Jeter made his major league baseball debut.[3] It was in a game against the Seattle Mariners. Jeter had 5 At-Bats and had 0 Hits.[4]
  • On September 11, 1995, pitcher Jack McDowell threw exactly three pitches and recorded three outs.[5] This was accomplished in the ninth inning.

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
Boston Red Sox 8658 0.597 — 42–30 44–28
New York Yankees 7965 0.549 7 46–26 33–39
Baltimore Orioles 7173 0.493 15 36–36 35–37
Detroit Tigers 6084 0.417 26 35–37 25–47
Toronto Blue Jays 5688 0.389 30 29–43 27–45

Record vs. opponents
1995 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —4–99–46–12–108–54–57–53–66–75–76–74–17–6
Boston 9–4—11–35–36–78–53–28–45–45–88–47–53–48–5
California 4–93–11—10–23–26–25–75–28–57–56–77–66–78–2
Chicago 1–63–52–10—5–88–48–56–710–33–2–17–54–95–76–5
Cleveland 10–27–62–38–5—10–311–19–49–46–67–05–46–310–3
Detroit 5–85–82–64–83–10—3–48–57–55–82–35–54–87–6
Kansas City 5–42–37–55–81–114–3—10–26–73–75–87–58–67–5
Milwaukee 5–74–82–57–64–95–82–10—9–45–67–23–25–77–5
Minnesota 6–34–55–83–104–95–77–64–9—3–45–74–85–81–4
New York 7–68–55–72–3–16–68–57–36–54–3—4–94–96–312–1
Oakland 7–54–87–65–70–73–28–52–77–59–4—7–65–83–7
Seattle 7–65–76–79–44–55–55–72–38–49–46–7—10–33–4
Texas 1–44–37–67–53–68–46–87–58–53–68–53–10—9–3
Toronto 6–75–82–85–63–106–75–75–74–11–127–34–33–9—

Transactions
  • April 12, 1995: Randy Velarde was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[6]
  • June 5, 1995: Josías Manzanillo was selected off waivers by the New York Yankees from the New York Mets.[7]
  • June 8, 1995: Kevin Elster was released by the New York Yankees.[8]
  • June 19, 1995: Darryl Strawberry was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
  • July 1, 1995: Kevin Maas was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[9]
  • July 16, 1995: Dave Silvestri was traded by the New York Yankees to the Montreal Expos for Tyrone Horne (minors).[10]
  • July 28, 1995: David Cone was traded by the Toronto Blue Jays to the New York Yankees for Marty Janzen, Jason Jarvis (minors), and Mike Gordon (minors).[11]
  • July 28, 1995: Danny Tartabull was traded by the New York Yankees to the Oakland Athletics for Rubén Sierra and Jason Beverlin.[12]
  • August 5, 1995: Luis Polonia was traded by the New York Yankees to the Atlanta Braves for Troy Hughes (minors).[13]

Draft picks
  • June 1, 1995: Donzell McDonald was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 22nd round of the 1995 amateur draft. Player signed July 22, 1995.[14]
  • June 1, 1995: Future NFL quarterback Daunte Culpepper was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 26th round (730th pick) of the 1995 amateur draft. Culpepper was drafted out of Vanguard High School.[15]

Roster
1995 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Manager

Coaches

Death of Mickey Mantle

Shortly before his death, Mantle videotaped a message to be played on Old-Timers' Day, which he was too ill to attend. He said, "When I die, I wanted on my tombstone, 'A great teammate.' But I didn't think it would be this soon." The words were indeed carved on the plaque marking his resting place at the family mausoleum in Dallas.

Mantle received a liver transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, on June 8, 1995, after his liver had been damaged by years of chronic alcoholism, cirrhosis and hepatitis C. In July, he had recovered enough to deliver a press conference at Baylor, and noted that many fans had looked to him as a role model. "This is a role model: Don't be like me", he said. He also established the Mickey Mantle Foundation to raise awareness for organ donations. Soon, he was back in the hospital, where it was found that his liver cancer spread throughout his body.

Mickey Mantle died on August 13, 1995, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He was 63 years old. During the first Yankee home game after Mantle's passing, Eddie Layton played "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on the Hammond organ at Yankee Stadium because Mickey had once told him it was his favorite song. The Yankees played the rest of the season with black mourning bands topped by a small number 7 on their left sleeves.

Phil Rizzuto, angered over the refusal of television station WPIX to give him a day off to attend his former teammate's funeral, abruptly resigned from his play-by-play announcing job with the station on August 19. He would return to call a partial schedule for the station in 1996 before retiring for good.

Player stats

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CMike Stanley118399107.2681883
1BDon Mattingly128458132.288749
2BPat Kelly8927064.237429
3BWade Boggs126460149.324563
SSTony Fernández10830494.245539
LFLuis Polonia6723862.261215
CFBernie Williams144563173.3071882
RFPaul O'Neill127460138.3002296
DHRubén Sierra5621556.260744

Other batters
Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Derek Jeter154812.25007

Starting pitchers
Player GS IP W L ERA SO
Jack McDowell30217.215103.93157
Andy Pettitte26175.01294.17114
Sterling Hitchcock27168.111104.70121
David Cone1399.0923.8289
Scott Kamieniecki1689.2764.0143
Mélido Pérez1269.1555.5844

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO

ALDS
GameScoreDate
1Seattle 6, New York 9Oct 3, 1995
2Seattle 5, New York 7Oct 4, 1995
3New York 4, Seattle 7Oct 6, 1995
4New York 8, Seattle 11Oct 7, 1995
5New York 5, Seattle 6Oct 8, 1995

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Columbus Clippers International League Bill Evers
AA Norwich Navigators Eastern League Jimmy Johnson
A Tampa Yankees Florida State League Jake Gibbs
A Greensboro Bats South Atlantic League Trey Hillman
A-Short Season Oneonta Yankees New York–Penn League Rob Thomson
Rookie GCL Yankees Gulf Coast League Héctor López

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References
  1. Jack McDowell Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fernato01.shtml
  3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jeterde01.shtml
  4. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199505290SEA
  5. 3 Pitch Inning
  6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/v/velarra01.shtml
  7. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/manzajo01.shtml
  8. https://www.baseball-reference.com/e/elsteke01.shtml
  9. https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/maaske01.shtml
  10. https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/silveda01.shtml
  11. David Cone Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  12. Danny Tartabull Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  13. Luis Polonia Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  14. https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcdondo01.shtml
  15. https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=1995&round=26&draft_type=junreg
  16. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
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