Wednesday, February 12, 2020

1989...Pete, Bart, BART and a Series that won't be forgotten


1989…An Earthquake, A Pick-six, Pete and Bart

                1989 was a very tumultuous year. Events, both natural and man-made, caused disruptions throughout the season, and into the post-season. The ripple effects are somewhat still being felt today.
                Pete Rose dominated the baseball headlines throughout the season, overshadowing most of the headlines. It started in February, as baseball was beginning Spring Training. Pete was called on to appear in New York and was informally questioned by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Bart Giamatti, about Pete’s involvement with gambling issues. Rose vehemently denied these accusations.
                Ueberroth had decided to vacate the office of Commissioner, and the owners had voted to install Giamatti as seventh commissioner. The former Yale University President was a well-known Boston Red Sox fan and had been the National League President in 1986. He had said previously that his dream job was to become the American League President. Giamatti became the commissioner on April 1st, 1989.
The April 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated featured a cover story on Pete Rose, with their findings on investigating the allegations of Pete’s gambling on baseball. On April 4th, Giamatti hired John M. Dowd, an attorney, to lead the MLB investigation into the allegations.

On April 6th, there was a winning pari-mutuel ticket sold at Turfway park for a Pick-Six, winning close to $48,000. Pete was alleged to be a half-owner of said ticket. With the winning ticket being as large as it was, the winner needed to identify himself, and be held responsible for any taxes due on those winnings.
Pete Roses’s friend, Tommy Gioiosa claimed the winning ticket as his own...well to the authorities at least. He was heard bragging that day and afterwards who ticket belonged to. This, along with other information made for an easy charge that Rose was placing bets using a middleman, like Gioiosa.
When the accusations became public, Pete stated that he did not know Gioiosa, and that there was a vast conspiracy against him. When news came of Rose leaving tickets for Gioiosa at Riverfront Stadium, Rose then remembered that he did in fact know Gioiosa.
I won’t delve into all the allegations against Rose, or his denials, then acknowledgements of his wrongdoings. I touched on them in this article:

Going back to the 1989 season, and Pete’s involvement…
In August, Pete Rose was relieved of his duties as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, and was replaced by Tommy Helms. The Reds were in fourth place at the time.

Pete met with Commissioner Giamatti and on August 24th, signed an agreement that accepted Pete’s banishment from baseball for life, with a codicil that stated that Pete could be eligible for reinstatement after one year.
There is no acceptance of guilt on the claim of gambling on baseball, nor is there any formal finding on the results of the investigation. Giamatti said,” There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. This is exactly what we did not agree to in terms of a fixed number of years.”
Rose, later that same monumental evening, appeared on a cable television shopping channel to sell his autographed items, bats, balls, jerseys, etc.

Rose signed the agreement essentially banning himself from baseball, then immediately began to back pedal away from it, saying that Giamatti changed the agreement. But Pete and his lawyer read the statement before they signed. Or at least, they should have.
Eight days after he became the first commissioner to permanently ban a player for life since Commissioner Landis, Bart Giamatti would die of a heart attack while on vacation on Martha’ Vineyard. His passing loomed very large over the last month of the season, and into the very memorable post season.     

Giamatti was replaced by his deputy commissioner, Francis (Fay) Vincent, who was appointed on September 13th, 1989. Vincent would serve in that role for three years.

Vastly overshadowed by the Rose and Giamatti situation, was the August 31st ruling by arbitrator Thomas Roberts, finding Major League owners guilty of collusion involving the 1986 class of Free Agents. Already been found guilty, in this penalty phase, Roberts ordered owners to pay a total over $10 million to the 139 players that were negatively impacted by the collected effort by the owners to not sign free agents.
Despite the collusion findings, the owners were still doling out serious money to the players. 1989 marked the first time that each of the twenty-six teams had at least one player earning $1 million or more on their rosters. History allows us to look back at the class of $2 million per year earners and find that of the twenty-one players over that threshold, only nine of those earned Hall of Fame inductions.
(Because you were going to ask Cal Ripken, Jim Rice, Kirby Puckett, Rickey Henderson, Andre Dawson, Eddie Murray Gary Carter and Ozzie Smith)

In 1988, Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky struggled to a 2-2 mark after seven games. He was placed on the disabled list. Examinations discovered a cancerous tumor in his left bicep. That tumor was in his deltoid muscle and had attached itself to the bone. The mass, along with about half of the deltoid muscle. was removed in October 1988. During the procedure, the surgeons had applied a ‘freezing agent’ to the bone.
With an aggressive and rigorous rehabilitation schedule, doctors advised him to look towards a return to major-league level abilities in time for the 1990 season. But determined to prove them wrong, Dravecky worked harder, and was able to return to the Giants in August.
In a highly publicized, and very emotional return, he pitched eight innings against the Reds, earning the win 4-3.

His next start, in Montreal stopped his storybook comeback.
In the bottom of the sixth, Expos shortstop Damaso Garcia homered, and first-baseman Andres Galarraga was hit by a pitch. With the runner on first, and Tim Raines at the plate, Dravecky attempted to throw the first pitch, but his humerus bone snapped, and Dravecky went down “Like he was shot”.
Expos third baseman Hubie Brooks, who was in the on-deck circle, said “It sounded like a firecracker”.
Both dugouts emptied rushed to the mound as Dravecky writhed in pain. He was removed to a local hospital and was found to have suffered a stress fracture of the humerus.

As misfortune happens, running on the field in October, as the Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series, Dravecky was bumped from behind, and suffered a hairline fracture of that same arm.
After the season, another lump was found in his arm, and he was forced to retire from the game. He would eventually have his left arm and shoulder amputated.

Dravecky was awarded the “Hutch Award” in 1989, which is given annually to a major league player who ‘best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire’ of its namesake, Fred Hutchinson. The award is presented by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research Center in Seattle. As of this writing, fourteen of the honorees are members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fred Hutchinson was a major league player, and manager. He was born and raised in Seattle. He became a professional baseball player in 1938, pitching for the non-affiliated Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League.
He was signed by the Detroit Tigers, and pitched well, but lost five years of playing time to World War II. He joined the U.S. Navy and served from 1942-1945. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
He returned to baseball, and compiled a respectable career, finishing with ninety-five wins, all with Detroit. His competitive nature, and his leadership skills led him into the managerial reins. He managed the Tigers, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds. Over a span of thirteen years, he won a little over eight-hundred games.
After the 1963 season, at the helm of the Reds, he discovered a lump in his neck, was diagnosed with a very aggressive strain of lung cancer. He had malignant tumors in his lungs, chest and neck. He began treatment, but still felt strong enough to remain in charge of the Reds. He fell ill in July, which required a brief hospital stay, but returned to the dugout for a brief run.
First base coach Dick Sisler assumed the interim-manager spot in the beginning of April, and the Reds went on a tear, finishing the season in a second-place tie with the Phillies, one game behind the Cardinals.
Fred Hutchinson succumbed to the cancer on November 12th, 1964. He was forty-five years old.

SPORT magazine named Hutch its “Man of the Year” as a tribute to his courage in battling his illness, and his leadership of his team, as both parties realized he was getting ‘closer to death’s door’ with each passing day.


North of the border, in Toronto, the crown jewel stadium of the American League opened in mid-season. The Sky Dome became the new home of the Toronto Blue Jays on June 5th. It was the first major league stadium to feature a fully retractable roof. The stadium also featured an on-site hotel, with seventy rooms which overlooked the playing field.
The Blue Jays played their final game at Exhibition Stadium against the Chicago White Sox on May 28th. That game featured a walk-off home run hit by George Bell. In the eighth inning of the inaugural game at the Sky Dome against the Milwaukee Brewers, George Bell homered, becoming the first player to homer in both a stadium’s last game, and first game during the same season.

But all was not perfect in Toronto. A sudden rainstorm hit the area during a game, and while the retractable roof did its job, it slowed down greatly before finally closing. The result was a small rain delay, as the exposed area was around home plate. The rest of the field was in dryness, but the batter, catcher and umpire were inundated for rain for several minutes.
In Philadelphia, the Pirates took a huge lead over the Phillies, on a ten-run first inning outburst. Pirates announcer Jim Rooker stated that if the Bucs somehow blew a ten-run lead to the rival Phillies, he would walk home to Pittsburgh. They did. The Phillies won a barn burner by a score of 15-11 Rooker, true to his word, walked the three hundred fifteen miles. He raised over $80,000 for a local children’s hospital in the process.

And speaking of that game, Phillies shortstop Steve Jeltz, who would finish his career with five homers, hit two of them in this game. Jeltz, incredibly becomes the first switch-hitter in the one-hundred year plus history of the Phillies to homer from each side of the plate in the same game.

The Cincinnati Reds recorded a record twelve singes in the first inning in a game against the Houston Astros.
San Diego pitcher Bruce Hurst became the first pitcher in history to earn a win over the reigning Cy Young Award winners in one season. He beat Orel Hershiser of the Dodgers and Frank Viola of the Mets, who had been traded from the Minnesota Twins in July.

The Montreal Expos lost a twenty-two-inning game to the Los Angeles Dodgers on a solo homerun by thirty-nine-year-old Dodgers catcher Rick Dempsey, who replaced starter Mike Scioscia in the eighth inning. The game is notable for at least three reasons. It was the longest game in Montreal Expo history. There was not a single base on balls, which remains a record for the longest game without a non-intentional walk issued. And it was a game where Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda had Expos mascot Youppi ejected from the game for jumping on and thumping on the Dodgers dugout in the eleventh inning of the game.

Youppi recovered and will be inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame in 2020, the first Canadian based mascot to receive such an honor.
Really.
Youppi joins, among others, Mr. Met, The Phillie Phanatic, the San Diego Chicken, Tommy Hawk (Blackhawks), Smokey (University of Tennessee), Brutus Buckeye (Ohio State University) and KC Wolf (Kansas City Chiefs) enshrined at the Hall in Whiting, Indiana.
Really.

Texas Rangers ace Nolan Ryan strikes out future Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, the five thousandth strikeout of Ryan’s career. Ryan remains the only pitcher to have reached five thousand strikeouts and will probably be the only one to do so.

The Oakland A’s were in dynasty mode or should have been. They were the most dominant team in 1989, the middle of their three year stretch as American League champions. But 1989 was their only World Series championship do that time.
They had dominant pitching, the lowest ERA in the league and three pitchers with nineteen or more wins. They had the best reliever in either league, Dennis Eckersley, who didn’t allow a walk from August 17 until June 10th of next season, forty-one straight regular season appearances. Eck walked just three batters in fifty-one appearances, earning thirty-three saves and four wins.

They reacquired Rickey Henderson from the Yankees to jump-start a sputtering offense, which finished fourth in the league in runs scored, en-route to a ninety-nine-win season.
They did it without the services of the AL reigning Most Valuable Player, Jose Canseco, who was dealing with a litany of issues. First, he was arrested for reckless driving and leading police on a fifteen-mile, high speed chase. Then he was hit on the wrist during a Spring Training game, breaking a bone and sidelining him. Then, while at a doctor’s appointment, someone observed a handgun in Canseco’s car, and he was charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm. Altogether, Jose missed ninety-seven games. But, his popularity with the fans allowed him to be voted as a starting outfielder for the All-Star Game.
Around this time, however, suspicions began to arise about supposed steroid use by Canseco. Baseball columnist Thomas Boswell said that Canseco was “the most conspicuous example of a player who made himself great with steroids.” Canseco, at the time, denied any involvement with any drugs, and threatened to sue Boswell. Some reporters, though, began referring to steroids in baseball as “Canseco Shakes”. An in 1990, Sports Illustrated reported that while Canseco was with someone who “…had been detained at various times for carrying steroids”, there was no proof at the time that Canseco was doing anything illicit.
Then came his book.
In 2005, after his big-league career ended, Canseco published a book called “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big”. In this book, co-written by Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno and Manuel Collado, Canseco estimated that up to 85% of major league players had used steroids at some time, and for some time. He also called out several former teammates on their steroid use, even describing them giving injection to each other.
But back to 1989, when this issue wasn’t much more than a speck on a rising superstar career,
Jose, and his twin brother Ozzie became a part of a curious medical study, which had very little to do with baseball. In the minor leagues, Ozzie Canseco was struck on the wrist, and suffered a bone fracture. Jose fractured the same wrist in the same way in the spring of 1989. The similarities and coincidences of twins having broken the same bone in different incidents was a medical anomaly. I don’t honestly know the results of those tests or studies…just throwing it out there.

The A’s steamrolled their way into the World Series in 1989, taking four of five games from the Toronto Blue Jays.
In the National League, the Chicago Cubs outlasted the Mets to win the National League East title by six games. Their opponents would be the San Francisco Giants, who finished three ahead of the San Diego Padres.
                After waiting thirty-five years for a post-season appearance in 1984, the Cubs were now in their second playoff series in six years. The Giants had won just their third divisional title, previously in 1971 and 1987.
Cubs first-baseman mark Grace hit .647 for the Series but was edged out by Giants first-baseman Will Clark, who hit .650. The Giants handily beat the Cubs four games to one, to advance to the first ever Bay Are World Series.
The Series began in Oakland, and behind the Bash Brother’s offense, and the pitching of Dave Stewart and Mike Moore, the A’s were heading to a Game Three showdown in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.
The "Battle by the Bay" or the BART Series (for Bay Area Rapid Transit) highlighted Northern California, and the region was more than happy to share it's resources with the national audience.
Fate stepped in, as minutes before the first pitch, the ground began to shake. There was an earthquake which was centered approximately sixty miles south of the Stadium and registered at 6.9 on the Richter scale. Television and radio coverage of the game was interrupted, some momentarily, some for longer, as technicians worked to restore power to the broadcasts. The game was secondary, this was now a major news story.

The initial thought was to postpone the game for the night, and try Game Three on the following night, to let everyone calm down and settle nerves. But that was the thought from the stadium, which performed remarkably well during the event.                                                            
As the reports began coming in from around the area, the realization that this was a very catastrophic natural disaster began to take hold. Baseball and the World Series were not just taken from the sports page, they weren’t even an afterthought, as the community was reporting its losses.
Dozens of people were killed, thousands more injured and displaced. Over five billion dollars of property losses were assessed. The Fall Classic could wait, which it did.
The decision to resume the Series on October 24th was made, then changed. The Series resumed on October 27th. The Giants returned with Scott Garrelts on the mound, who was tagged with the loss on Game One, to face Dave Stewart, repeating his Game One start. The A’s one.
Game Four featured Don Robinson of the Giants, in his only series start, challenging Mike Moore of the A’s. Same result. The A’s won that game and swept the Series. Oakland became the third team to never be behind in a single inning of a World Series.

During the off-season, on Christmas Day, former big-league manager Billy Martin would die in a car accident. Billy was mainly associated with the Yankees throughout his professional career, was returning from an event near his home in upstate, New York. His truck hit a patch of ice, and he slipped down a culvert approximately 200 or so feet.
                The picture of the wrecked truck made the front pages in the New York papers the flowing day, with his license plate clearly visible. In an unprecedented move later the following day, the New York State Lottery commission suspended play of the four-digit number (3569 in case you were wondering) due to its overwhelming play.
(The number didn’t win)

Other things of note from the summer of 1989 revolves around the major league draft. There were quite a few names that would loom into the nineties and beyond selected that year. Including:
Ben McDonald                   Orioles
Frank Thomas*                 White Sox
Mo Vaughn                        Red Sox
Chuck Knoblauch              Twins
Todd Jones                         Astros
Tim Salmon                        Angels
John Olerud                        Blue Jays
Jeff Bagwell*                     Red Sox
Trevor Hoffman *             Reds (as a shortstop)
Jim Thome*                       Indians
Jeff Kent                              Blue Jays
                *Hall of Fame inductees
And some who were drafted but didn’t sign were Charles Johnson, Jorge Posada and Jason Giambi.

Now on to the season’s statistical results, beginning with pitching. The top three teams in each league were:

American League
National League
Oakland
San Francisco
California
Chicago
Kansas City
San Diego


And team offense brought us this list
Boston
Chicago
Minnesota
San Francisco
Toronto
New York

Bringing the overall team top team averages to this:
Oakland A’s
World Champions
Chicago Cubs
NL East Champion
San Francisco Giants
National League Champion
Kansas City Royals
2nd place in AL West
Toronto Blue Jays
AL East Champion


Looking more in-depth at the pitching, we’ll look at the National League first, where the pitcher held a 7.4% statistical advantage over the AL hurlers. Our initial top ten list is:

Pitcher
Team
W-L
ERA
Svs
Mike Scott
Astros
20-10
3.10
0
Scott Garrelts
Giants
14-5
2.28
0
Mark Langston
Expos
12-9
2.39
0
Eddie Whitson
Padres
16-11
2.66
0
Roger McDowell
Phillies
3-3
1.11
19
Rick Reuschel
Giants
17-8
2.94
0
Greg Maddux
Cubs
19-12
2.95
0
Orel Hershiser
Dodgers
15-15
2.31
0
Jay Howell
Dodgers
5-3
1.58
28
Joe Magrane
Cardinals
18-9
2.91
0

Two players to note from this list, Mark Langston and Roger McDowell. Both were acquired in mid-season trades, so these performances are with their new teams. Ad both were involved in controversial/blockbuster deals as well.
In May, Langston, went from Seattle to the Expos in exchange for pitchers Greg Harris, Brian Holman and Randy Johnson. The gamble failed to pay off for Montreal, as the stumbled towards the end of the season, and eventually lost Langston as a free agent to the Angels.
McDowell, along with Lenny Dykstra and a player to be named later (Tom Edens), was sent from the Mets to Philadelphia in exchange for Juan Samuel on June 18th.
There was another blockbuster deal late in the season, in which the Twins sent pitcher Frank Viola to the Mets in exchange for Rick Aguilera and David West, with three other players to be named later (Tim Drummond, Jack Savage and Kevin Tapani) on July 31st.

Moving on to how the National League pitchers performed against their team averages, we get this list:
Roger McDowell
Above



Mike Scott
Above



John Smoltz
Braves
12-11
2.94
0
Mark Langston
Above



John Smiley
Pirates
12-8
2.81
0
Tom Glavine
Braves
14-8
3.68
0
Bill Landrum
Pirates
2-3
1.67
26
Doug Drabek
Pirates
14-12
2.80
0
Ken Howell
Phillies
12-12
3.44
0
Joe Magrane
Above




Combining and analyzing, we get this top ten overall performers, with any post season voting results:
Mike Scott
2nd in Cy Young, 15th in MVP
Roger McDowell
No votes
Mark Langston
No votes
Ed Whitson
No votes
Orel Hershiser
4th in Cy Young (tie)
Joe Magrane
4th in Cy Young (tie)
Jay Howell
No votes
Greg Maddux
3rd in Cy Young
John Smiley
No votes
Scott Garrelts
6th in Cy Young (tie), 20th in MVP

The National League Cy Young Award winner was reliever Mark Davis of the Padres. He went 4-3 with a 1.85 ERA and 44 saves in 92 and 2/3rd innings over 70 games. Based on my statistical formula, he was the third best pitcher on his team.

To the American League, our initial top ten list is:
Bret Saberhagen
Royals
23-6
2.16
0
Dennis Eckersley
A’s
4-0
1.56
33
Mike Moore
A’s
19-11
2.61
0
Chuck Finley
Angels
16-9
2.57
0
Bert Blyleven
Angels
17-5
2.73
0
Dave Stewart
A’s
21-9
3.32
0
Jeff Montgomery
Royals
7-3
1.37
18
Bob Welch
A’s
17-8
3.00
0
Jeff Russell
Rangers
6-4
1.98
38
Nolan Ryan
Rangers
16-10
3.20
0

A note about Nolan Ryan. He finished the season with 301 strikeouts. This would be the sixth and last time that he would strike out 300 or more in a season, and his tenth time leading the league in that category. He would do it an eleventh time in 1990.
Oh, and he was forty-one years old this season.

Now, as compared to their team performances, we get this list:
Bret Saberhagen
Above



Erik Hanson
Mariners
9-5
3.18
0
Frank Tanana
Tigers
10-14
3.58
0
Jeff Russell
Above



Nolan Ryan
Above



Doug Jones
Indians
7-10
2.34
32
Allan Anderson
Twins
17-10
3.80
3
Chris Bosio
Brewers
15-10
2.95
0
Scott Bankhead
Mariners
14-6
3.34
0
Gregg Olson
Orioles
5-2
1.69
27

Bringing our top ten overall AL pitchers to this:
Bret Saberhagen
Cy Young Award, 8th in MVP
Dennis Eckersley
6th in Cy Young (tie), 5th in MVP
Erik Hanson
No votes
Mike Moore
3rd in Cy Young, 20th in MVP
Jeff Russell
9th in Cy Young
Jeff Montgomery
No votes
Nolan Ryan
5th in Cy Young, 23rd in MVP
Chris Bosio
No votes
Doug Jones
No votes
Dave Stewart
14th in MVP


Now switching to the offense, our initial top ten National League hitters were:
Hitter
Team
HR
RBI
AVG
RCG
Kevin Mitchell
Giants
47
125
.291
1.16
Will Clark
Giants
23
111
.333
1.21
Lonnie Smith
Braves
21
79
.315
1.10
Eric Davis
Reds
34
101
.281
1.08
Howard Johnson
Mets
36
101
.287
1.10
Jack Clark
Padres
26
94
.242
1.01
Pedro Guerrero
Cardinals
17
117
.311
0.99
Mark Grace
Cubs
13
79
.314
0.99
Bobby Bonilla
Pirates
24
86
.281
0.97
Andre Dawson
Cubs
22
77
.252
1.00

Then, as compared to their team averages, a few changes. That ranking is:
Lonnie Smith
Above




Eric Davis
Above




Kevin Mitchell
Above




Will Clark
Above




Howard Johnson
Above




Jack Clark
Above




Pedro Guerrero
Above




Bobby Bonilla
Above




Von Hayes
Phillies
26
78
.259
0.94
Eddie Murray
Dodgers
20
88
.247
0.84

This gets us to our ultimate top ten NL hitters, along with their post-season votes:

Kevin Mitchell
NL MVP
Will Clark
2nd in MVP
Lonnie Smith
11th in MVP
Eric Davis
9th in MVP
Howard Johnson
5th in MVP
Jack Clark
12th in MVP
Bobby Bonilla
16th in MVP
Mark Grace
14th in MVP
Von Hayes
No votes
Eddie Murray
No votes

Over to the American League, where the hitters held an 8,8% statistical advantage over the National Leaguers, our initial top ten list is:
Ruben Sierra
Rangers
29
119
.306
1.18
Ellis Burks
Red Sox
12
61
.303
1.26
Robin Yount
Brewers
21
103
.318
1.14
Alvin Davis
Mariners
21
95
.305
1.11
Mickey Tettleton
Orioles
26
65
.258
0.95
Carlton Fisk
White Sox
13
68
.392
0.99
Bo Jackson
Royals
32
105
.256
1.18
Dwight Evans
Red Sox
20
100
.285
1.11
Mike Greenwell
Red Sox
14
95
.308
1.16
Kent Hrbek
Twins
25
84
.272
1.08

And against their teams, the top performers were:
Ruben Sierra
Above




Alvin Davis
Above




Robin Yount
Above




Mickey Tettleton
Above




Joe Carter
Indians
35
105
.243
0.95
Lou Whitaker
Tigers
28
85
.251
0.91
Chili Davis
Angels
22
90
.271
0.97
Bo Jackson
Above




Carlton Fisk
Above




George Bell
Blue Jays
18
104
.297
1.14

And our final AL top ten ranking in offense would be:
Ruben Sierra
2nd in MVP
Alvin Davis
23rd in MVP (tied)
Robin Yount
AL MVP
Ellis Burks
No votes
Mickey Tettleton
No votes
Carlton Fisk
No votes
Bo Jackson
10th in MVP
Kent Hrbek
No votes
George Bell
4th in MVP
Dwight Evans
No votes

While Robin Yount of the Brewers was voted the league’s Most Valuable Player, using these findings, he was not the best player in the AL. The voters and I agree on two of the four award winners for the 1989 season.

My top five overall rankings in each league would then be:

National League

Kevin Mitchell
Player of the Year

Will Clark
Lonnie Smith
Eric Davis

Mike Scott
Pitcher of the Year


American League


Bret Saberhagen
Player of the Year


Ruben Sierra
Offensive Player of the Year
Dennis Eckersley
Erik Hanson
Alvin Davis