1992 Seattle Mariners season explained

Seattle Mariners
Season:	1992
League:	American League
Division:	West
Divisional Place:	7th
Ballpark:	Kingdome
City:	Seattle, Washington
Owners:	Jeff Smulyan, purchased by Hiroshi Yamauchi in July
General Managers:	Woody Woodward
Managers:	Bill Plummer
Television:	KSTW-TV 11
Radio:	KIRO 710 AM (Dave Niehaus, Ken Levine, Billy Sample)

The 1992 Seattle Mariners season was their 16th since the franchise creation. The team finished seventh (last) in the American League West with a record of .^[1] ^[2]

After a then franchise-best 83 wins the previous season, the Mariners finished with nineteen fewer, the largest one-year decline in team history.^[3] The team ownership was transferred in July from Jeff Smulyan to Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi,^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7] and first-year manager Bill Plummer was fired after the season,^[8] ^[9] succeeded by Lou Piniella in November for 1993.^[10] ^[11]

Lefthanded starter Randy Johnson won the first of four consecutive strikeout titles with 241.^[12] In his third full season in the majors, 29-year-old third baseman Edgar Martínez batted .343 to lead the majors and win the first of his two American League batting titles.^[13] He hit .388 in July and .395 in August and was the league's player of the month for both.^[2]

Offseason

October 11, 1991: The Mariners decided not to bring back manager Jim Lefebvre, along with pitching coach Mike Paul for the 1992 season.
October 29, 1991: Third base coach Bill Plummer was promoted to manager.
December 11, 1991: Bill Swift, Mike Jackson, and Dave Burba were traded by the Mariners to the San Francisco Giants for Kevin Mitchell and Mike Remlinger.^[14]
February 19, 1992: Shane Turner was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.^[15]
March 9, 1992: John Moses was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.^[16]

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 4: Mario Díaz was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.^[17]
May 29: Mario Díaz was released by the Mariners.^[17]
May 29: Bill Haselman was selected off waivers by the Mariners from the Texas Rangers.^[18]
August 22: Sean Twitty (minors) was traded by the Mariners to the New York Yankees for Tim Leary and cash.^[19]

Roster

1992 Seattle Mariners
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches (hitting) (bullpen) (first base) (third base) (bench) (pitching)

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

Batting

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	124	367	88	.240	9	30
1B	136	460	118	.257	16	66
2B	140	458	113	.247	3	33
3B	135	528	181	.343	18	73
SS	136	483	142	.294	0	21
LF	99	360	103	.286	9	67
CF	142	565	174	.308	27	103
RF	152	543	132	.243	25	79
DH	134	396	88	.222	14	52

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
108	294	76	.259	5	27
86	200	55	.275	5	12
69	192	45	.234	8	21
65	152	38	.250	2	12
33	129	25	.194	4	15
35	100	24	.240	1	7
34	74	20	.270	0	5
31	73	14	.192	1	2
65	70	8	.114	1	3
13	37	10	.270	1	8
18	28	3	.107	0	0
21	22	3	.136	0	1
8	19	5	.263	0	0
8	11	1	.091	0	1
1	2	0	.000	0	0
2	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
33	228.1	17	10	3.39	112
31	210.1	12	14	3.77	241
31	186.2	8	17	4.82	112
8	44.0	3	4	4.91	12
4	16.1	0	1	7.71	6

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
22	91.1	4	3	4.53	26
30	83.2	3	6	5.49	66
23	81.0	2	4	3.89	42
8	33.1	0	2	7.56	20
5	14.2	0	3	7.36	5

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
53	2	7	13	4.70	33
66	1	7	6	3.44	46
55	3	10	9	4.74	45
49	4	2	0	4.58	35
38	3	5	0	5.69	49
17	0	0	0	5.28	11
17	0	0	0	5.89	12
14	0	1	0	2.92	4
9	2	1	0	8.68	2
8	0	1	0	3.29	6
8	0	0	0	7.00	6
3	0	0	0	18.90	1
2	0	0	0	9.00	2

Awards and honors

Randy Johnson, American League leader, Strikeouts
Edgar Martínez, Major League leader, Batting average

Farm system

External links

Notes and References

News: Baseball: American League . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . (standings) . October 5, 1992 . C4.
News: M's had their highs and lows . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . LaRue . Larry . McClatchy News Service . October 6, 1992 . C3.
News: M's beat McDowell in season finale . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . Cour . Jim . October 5, 1992 . C3.
News: M's still financial concern . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . McClatchy News Service . Carson . Rob . June 12, 1992 . C1.
News: Mariners' sale gains approval of the owners . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . June 12, 1992 . 1C.
News: M's owners expect city to produce . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . June 13, 1992 . C2.
News: Mariners have new owner as sale completed . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . July 2, 1992 . C3.
News: New owners figure one year is enough . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho) . Associated Press . October 14, 1992 . 1B.
News: Plummer, all coaches fired by M's . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . October 14, 1992 . C1.
News: Piniella takes Mariners' helm . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . (Seattle Times) . Finnigan . Bob . November 10, 1992 . C1.
News: Piniella assumes Mariners' helm . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . November 10, 1992 . 3F.
Web site: Randy Johnson | baseballbiography.com . July 19, 2008 . mdy-all .
News: Martinez wins first batting title . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . October 5, 1992 . C1.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mitchke01.shtml Kevin Mitchell page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/turnesh01.shtml Shane Turner page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mosesjo01.shtml John Moses page at Baseball Reference
Web site: Mario Diaz Statistics and History . Baseball-Reference.com . June 14, 2012.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/haselbi01.shtml Bill Haselman page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/l/learyti01.shtml Tim Leary page at Baseball Reference
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007