1997 New York Yankees season

The New York Yankees' 1997 season was the 95th season for the Yankees. New York was managed by Joe Torre and played at Yankee Stadium. The team finished with a record of 96–66 finishing 2 games behind the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East. They entered the postseason as the American League Wild Card, but lost the Division Series in 5 games to the Cleveland Indians. The 1997 Yankees failed to repeat as World Series Champions and win their second consecutive title.

1997 New York Yankees
1997 AL Wild Card, Defending World Series Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record96–66 (.593)
Divisional place2nd
Other information
Owner(s)George Steinbrenner
General manager(s)Bob Watson
Manager(s)Joe Torre
Local televisionWPIX
(Bobby Murcer, Rick Cerone)
MSG
(Ken Singleton, Jim Kaat, Al Trautwig, Suzyn Waldman)
Local radioWABC (AM)
(John Sterling, Michael Kay)
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Offseason
  • October 2, 1996: Pat Listach was sent by the New York Yankees to the Milwaukee Brewers to complete an earlier deal made on August 23, 1996. The New York Yankees sent Bob Wickman and Gerald Williams to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later, Pat Listach, and Graeme Lloyd. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Ricky Bones (August 29, 1996) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade. Pat Listach returned to original teams on October 2, 1996.[1]
  • November 4, 1996: Clay Bellinger was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[2]
  • December 5, 1996: Jim Leyritz was traded by the New York Yankees to the Anaheim Angels for players to be named later. The Anaheim Angels sent Jeremy Blevins (minors) (December 9, 1996) and Ryan Kane (minors) (December 9, 1996) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.[3]
  • December 11, 1996: Mike Stanton was Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[4]
  • January 9, 1997: Mark Whiten was Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[5]
  • January 9, 1997: Luis Sojo was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.[6]

Notable transaction chart
  • June 9, 1997: Dave Weathers was traded by the New York Yankees to the Cleveland Indians for Chad Curtis.[7]
  • July 29, 1997: Mariano Duncan was traded by the New York Yankees with cash to the Toronto Blue Jays for Angel Ramirez (minors).[8]
  • August 15, 1997: Mark Whiten was Released by the New York Yankees.[5]

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
Baltimore Orioles 9864 0.605 — 46–35 52–29
New York Yankees 9666 0.593 2 47–33 49–33
Detroit Tigers 7983 0.488 19 42–39 37–44
Boston Red Sox 7884 0.481 20 39–42 39–42
Toronto Blue Jays 7686 0.469 22 42–39 34–47

Season summary

June

On June 16 – The first interleague game between the New York Mets and New York Yankees took place at Yankee Stadium. The Mets won the game by a score of 6–0.[9]

August

On August 31: The New York Yankees retired Don Mattingly's number.

Mattingly's retired number in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium

Record vs. opponents
1997 American League Records

Sources:
Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR NL 
Anaheim —4–76–56–57–45–66–57–44–74–711–16–68–46–54–12
Baltimore 7–4—5–75–66–56–67–45–610–18–48–37–410–16–68–7
Boston 5–67–5—3–86–55–73–88–38–34–87–47–43–86–66–9
Chicago 5–66–58–3—5–74–711–14–76–62–98–35–63–85–68–7
Cleveland 4–75–65–67–5—6–58–38–48–45–67–43–85–66–59–6
Detroit 6–56–67–57–45–6—6–54–74–72–107–44–77–46–68–7
Kansas City 5–64–78–31–113–85–6—6–67–53–83–85–66–55–66–9
Milwaukee 4–76–53–87–44–87–46–6—5–74–75–65–67–47–48–7
Minnesota 7–41–103–86–64–87–45–77–5—3–87–45–63–83–87–8
New York 7–44–88–49–26–510–28–37–48–3—6–54–77–47–55–10
Oakland 1–113–84–73–84–74–78–36–54–75–6—5–75–76–57–9
Seattle 6–64–74–76–58–37–46–56–56–57–47–5—8–48–37–9
Texas 4–81–108–38–36–54–75–64–78–34–77–54–8—4–710–6
Toronto 5–66–66–66–55–66–66–54–78–35–75–63–87–4—4–11

Detailed record
TeamHomeAwayTotalWin %
AL East
AL Central
AL West
Anaheim Angels2–25–27–4.636
2–25–27–4.636
NL East
Month Games Won Lost Win %
April271413.519
May271512.556
June25178.680
July261511.577
August291811.621
September281711.607
Overall:1629666.593
Games Won Lost Win %
Home804733.588
Away824933.598

Roster
1997 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

Game log
Legend
Yankees Win Yankees Loss Game Postponed
1997 Game Log (96–66) Home: 47–33 Away: 49–33

Postseason Game log
Legend
Yankees Win Yankees Loss Game Postponed

Player stats

Batting

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
CJoe Girardi112398105.264150
1BTino Martinez158594176.29644141
2BLuis Sojo7721566.307225
SSDerek Jeter159654190.2911070
3BCharlie Hayes10035391.2581153
LFTim Raines7427187.321438
CFBernie Williams129509167.32821100
RFPaul O'Neill149553179.32421117
DHCecil Fielder9836194.2601361

Other batters
Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Wade Boggs103353103.292428
Chad Curtis9332093.2911250
Mark Whiten6921557.265524
Jorge Posada6018847.250625
Mariano Duncan5017242.244113
Rey Sánchez3813843.312115
Pat Kelly6712029.242210
Mike Stanley288725.287312
Scott Pose548719.21805
Andy Fox22317.22601
Darryl Strawberry11293.10302
Iván Cruz11205.25003
Pete Incaviglia5164.25000
Homer Bush10114.36403
Mike Figga240.00000

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Andy Pettitte35240.11872.88166
David Wells3221816104.21156
David Cone291951262.82222
Dwight Gooden20106.1954.9166

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Kenny Rogers31145675.6578
Ramiro Mendoza39133.2864.2482
Hideki Irabu1353.1547.0956
Willie Banks514301.938
Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jeff Nelson773722.8681
Mariano Rivera6664431.8868
Mike Stanton646132.5770
Graeme Lloyd461113.3126
Brian Boehringer343202.6353
Jim Mecir250405.8825
David Weathers1001010.004
Danny Rios200019.291
Joe Borowski10109.002
Wade Boggs10000.001

ALDS
Main article: 1997 American League Division Series

Game 1

September 30, Yankee Stadium

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cleveland 500 100 000 6110
New York 010 115 00X 8110
W: Ramiro Mendoza (1–0)   L: Eric Plunk (0–1)  SV: Mariano Rivera (1)
HR: CLE – Sandy Alomar, Jr. (1)   NYY – Tino Martinez (1)   Tim Raines (1)   Derek Jeter (1)   Paul O'Neill (1)

Game 2

October 2, Yankee Stadium

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cleveland 000 520 000 7111
New York 300 000 011 572
W: Jaret Wright (1–0)   L: Andy Pettitte (0–1)  SV: None
HR: CLE – Matt Williams (1)  NYY – Derek Jeter (2)

Game 3

October 4, Jacobs Field

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 101 400 000 641
Cleveland 010 000 000 151
W: David Wells (1–0)   L: Charles Nagy (0–1)  SV: None
HR: CLE – None   NYY – Paul O'Neill (2)

Game 4

October 5, Jacobs Field

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 200 000 000 291
Cleveland 010 000 011 390
W: Mike Jackson (1–0)   L: Ramiro Mendoza (1–1)  SV: None
HR: CLE – David Justice (1)   Sandy Alomar, Jr. (2)   NYY – None

Game 5

October 6, Jacobs Field

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 000 021 000 3120
Cleveland 003 100 00X 472
W: Jaret Wright (2–0)   L: Andy Pettitte (0–2)  SV: José Mesa (1)
HR: CLE – None   NYY – None

Awards and records
Don Mattingly's number 23 was retired by the New York Yankees in 1997.

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Columbus Clippers International League Stump Merrill
AA Norwich Navigators Eastern League Trey Hillman
A Tampa Yankees Florida State League Lee Mazzilli
A Greensboro Bats South Atlantic League Tom Nieto
A-Short Season Oneonta Yankees New York–Penn League Joe Arnold
Rookie GCL Yankees Gulf Coast League Ken Dominguez

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References
  1. Pat Listach Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bellicl01.shtml
  3. Jim Leyritz Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  4. Mike Stanton Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  5. Mark Whiten Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sojolu01.shtml
  7. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weathda01.shtml
  8. Mariano Duncan Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  9. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199706160NYA
  10. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
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