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 lose a 2-0 series lead and succumb to the Mariners in the fifth game.

Offseason

• December 14, 1994: Jack McDowell was traded by the Chicago White Sox to the New York Yankees for a player to be named later and Keith Heberling (minors). The New York Yankees sent Lyle Mouton (April 22, 1995) to the White Sox to complete the trade.^[1]
• December 15, 1994: Tony Fernandez was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.^[2]

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

Transactions

• April 12, 1995: Randy Velarde was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.^[6]
• June 5, 1995: Josias 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 11, 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

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

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

Other batters

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

ALDS

Game Score Date 1 Seattle 6, New York 9 October 3, 1995 2 Seattle 5, New York 7 October 4, 1995 3 New York 4, Seattle 7 October 6, 1995 4 New York 8, Seattle 11 October 7, 1995 5 New York 5, Seattle 6 October 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 Short-Season A Oneonta Yankees New York-Penn League Rob Thomson Rookie GCL Yankees Gulf Coast League Héctor López [16] References ^ Jack McDowell Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fernato01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jeterde01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199505290SEA ^ 3 Pitch Inning ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/v/velarra01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/manzajo01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/elsteke01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/maaske01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/silveda01.shtml ^ David Cone Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ Danny Tartabull Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ Luis Polonia Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcdondo01.shtml ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=1995&round=26&draft_type=junreg ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. 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