1990 Cleveland Indians season explained

Cleveland Indians
Season:	1990
League:	American League
Division:	East
Ballpark:	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
City:	Cleveland, Ohio
Owners:	Richard Jacobs
General Managers:	Hank Peters
Managers:	John McNamara
Television:	WUAB Jack Corrigan, Mike Hegan SportsChannel Dan Coughlin, Rick Manning
Radio:	WWWE Herb Score, Tom Hamilton

The 1990 Cleveland Indians season was the 90th season for the franchise.

Offseason

October 4, 1989: Luis Aguayo was released by the Cleveland Indians.^[1]
November 21, 1989: Cecilio Guante was signed as a free agent by the Indians.^[2]
December 6, 1989: Joe Carter was traded by the Indians to the San Diego Padres for Sandy Alomar Jr., Carlos Baerga and Chris James.^[3]
December 7, 1989: Keith Hernandez was signed as a free agent by the Indians.^[4]
December 8, 1989: Tom Brookens was signed as a free agent by the Cleveland Indians.^[5]
January 9, 1990: Scott Bailes was traded by the Cleveland Indians to the California Angels for Colin Charland (minors) and Jeff Manto.^[6]
January 10, 1990: Rafael Santana was signed as a free agent by the Indians.^[7]

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 25, 1990: Rafael Santana was released by the Indians.
April 30, 1990: Sergio Valdez was selected off waivers by the Indians from the Atlanta Braves.^[8]
May 7, 1990: Stan Jefferson was selected off waivers by the Indians from the Baltimore Orioles.^[9]
June 17, 1990: Ken Phelps was purchased by the Indians from the Oakland Athletics.^[10]
July 11, 1990: Tom Lampkin was traded by the Indians to the San Diego Padres for Alex Cole.^[11]
August 12, 1990: Cecilio Guante was released by the Indians.
September 16, 1990: Bud Black was traded by the Indians to the Toronto Blue Jays for Mauro Gozzo and players to be named later. The Blue Jays completed the deal by sending Steve Cummings to the Indians on September 21 and Alex Sanchez to the Indians on September 24.^[12]

Draft picks

June 4, 1990: David Bell was drafted by the Indians in the 7th round of the 1990 amateur draft. Player signed June 12, 1990.^[13]

Opening Day Lineup

Opening Day Starters
	Name	Position
23		CF
14		2B
22		LF
28		RF
17		1B
7		DH
26		3B
15		C
2		SS
40		P

^[14]

Roster

1990 Cleveland Indians

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

Coaches

(third base)
(first base)
(bullpen)
(hitting)
(pitching)
(bench)

Statistics

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
align=left		4	16	2	3	1	0	1	2	.188	0
align=left		132	445	60	129	26	2	9	66	.290	4
align=left		108	312	46	81	17	2	7	47	.260	0
align=left		9	23	1	4	0	0	1	3	.174	0
align=left		64	154	18	41	7	2	1	20	.266	0
align=left		140	513	92	137	26	5	6	50	.267	12
align=left		63	227	43	68	5	4	0	13	.300	40
align=left		148	414	47	106	13	2	1	40	.256	3
align=left		43	130	7	26	2	0	1	8	.200	0
align=left		155	553	77	162	24	4	14	75	.293	1
align=left		140	528	62	158	32	4	12	70	.299	4
align=left		87	248	28	68	15	2	1	22	.274	5
align=left		49	98	21	27	8	0	2	10	.276	8
align=left		155	590	76	161	32	2	22	95	.273	3
align=left		30	76	12	17	5	1	2	14	.224	0
align=left		8	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	.167	0
align=left		24	61	4	7	0	0	0	0	.115	1
align=left		7	13	3	3	0	0	1	3	.231	0
align=left		49	139	16	35	4	1	2	16	.252	0
align=left		123	438	46	102	27	3	14	55	.233	1
align=left		4	12	1	2	0	0	0	1	.167	0
align=left		14	46	10	16	2	1	1	10	.348	3
align=left		128	437	58	110	20	6	12	55	.252	22
Team Totals	162	5485	732	1465	266	41	110	675	.267	107

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
align=left		0	2	12.91	3	3	0	7.2	16	11	11	5	2
align=left		11	10	3.53	29	29	0	191.0	171	79	75	58	103
align=left		15	11	3.65	31	29	0	202.0	207	92	82	55	128
align=left		4	5	4.28	17	17	0	96.2	108	49	46	33	44
align=left		0	0	0.00	2	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	2	2
align=left		2	3	5.01	26	1	0	46.2	38	26	26	18	30
align=left		5	5	2.56	66	0	43	84.1	66	26	24	22	55
align=left		0	0	3.55	5	0	0	12.2	16	5	5	7	9
align=left		2	4	5.91	9	8	0	45.2	58	31	30	21	26
align=left		0	3	7.88	4	2	0	16.0	24	14	14	6	3
align=left		2	3	6.75	9	5	0	24.0	35	19	18	19	12
align=left		4	4	3.41	50	1	1	92.1	96	41	35	26	64
align=left		5	4	3.90	55	0	2	64.2	58	35	28	38	55
align=left		2	1	5.60	24	0	0	27.1	22	17	17	25	24
align=left		3	4	6.66	12	9	0	48.2	73	38	36	20	25
align=left		12	9	4.40	34	34	0	214.2	245	110	105	47	135
align=left		1	1	3.04	13	0	0	23.2	20	10	8	14	13
align=left		6	6	4.75	24	13	0	102.1	109	62	54	35	63
align=left		2	6	4.88	18	11	0	75.2	82	49	41	42	34
align=left		1	3	4.25	22	0	1	36.0	31	17	17	21	23
align=left		0	1	3.65	10	0	0	12.1	14	6	5	4	10
Team Totals	77	85	4.26	162	162	47	1427.1	1491	737	676	518	860

Awards and honors

Sandy Alomar, American League Rookie of the Year, Gold Glove

All-Star Game

Sandy Alomar, catcher, starter
Brook Jacoby, third base, reserve
Doug Jones, relief pitcher, reserve

Farm system

References

Web site: Luis Aguayo . Baseball Reference . June 21, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100614213709/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aguaylu01.shtml. June 14, 2010 . live.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/guantce01.shtml Cecilio Guante
https://www.baseball-reference.com/a/alomasa02.shtml Sandy Alomar, Jr.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hernake01.shtml Keith Hernandez
https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/brookto01.shtml Tom Brookens
Web site: Scott Bailes Stats.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/santara01.shtml Rafael Santana
https://www.baseball-reference.com/v/valdese01.shtml Sergio Valdez
https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jeffest01.shtml Stan Jefferson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/phelpke01.shtml Ken Phelps
https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/coleal01.shtml Alex Cole
https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/blackbu02.shtml Bud Black
https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bellda01.shtml David Bell
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA199004120.shtml 1990 Opening Day Lineup
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

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