1994 Boston Red Sox season

The 1994 Boston Red Sox season was the 94th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The season was cut short by the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, and there was no postseason. When the strike started on August 12, the Red Sox were in fourth place in the American League East with a record of 54 wins and 61 losses, 17 games behind the New York Yankees.

1994 Boston Red Sox
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)JRY Trust
General manager(s)Dan Duquette
Manager(s)Butch Hobson
Local televisionWSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Sean McDonough, Bob Montgomery)
NESN
(Bob Kurtz, Jerry Remy)
Local radioWRKO
(Jerry Trupiano, Joe Castiglione)
WROL
(Bobby Serrano, Hector Martinez)
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Offseason

Regular season
  • July 8, 1994: John Valentin of the Red Sox executed an unassisted triple play. He caught a line drive, touched second base, and tagged the runner coming from first base.[5] In that same game, Alex Rodriguez made his major league baseball debut.[6] Rodriguez appeared in three at-bats and had 0 hits.[7]
  • By Friday, August 12, the Red Sox had compiled a 54-61 record with 552 runs scored (4.80 per game) and 621 runs allowed (5.40 per game).[8]

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 7043 0.619 — 33–24 37–19
Baltimore Orioles 6349 0.562 6½ 28–27 35–22
Toronto Blue Jays 5560 0.478 16 33–26 22–34
Boston Red Sox 5461 0.470 17 31–33 23–28
Detroit Tigers 5362 0.461 18 34–24 19–38
Division leaders W L Pct.
New York Yankees 7043 0.619
Chicago White Sox 6746 0.593
Texas Rangers 5262 0.456
W L Pct.
Cleveland Indians 6647 0.584
Baltimore Orioles 6349 0.562
Kansas City Royals 6451 0.557
Toronto Blue Jays 5560 0.478
Boston Red Sox 5461 0.470
Minnesota Twins 5360 0.469
Detroit Tigers 5362 0.461
Milwaukee Brewers 5362 0.461
Oakland Athletics 5163 0.447
Seattle Mariners 4963 0.438
California Angels 4768 0.409

Record vs. opponents
1994 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —4–28–42–44–63–44–17–34–54–67–54–63–37–2
Boston 2–4—7–52–43–74–24–25–51–83–79–36–61–57–3
California 4–85–7—5–50–53–46–43–33–34–83–62–76–43–4
Chicago 4–24–25–5—7–58–43–79–32–44–26–39–14–52–3
Cleveland 6–47–35–05–7—8–21–45–29–30–96–03–25–76–4
Detroit 4–32–44–34–82–8—4–86–43–33–35–46–35–75–4
Kansas City 1–42–44–67–34–18–4—5–76–44–27–36–44–36–6
Milwaukee 3–75–53–33–92–54–67–5—6–62–74–14–23–37–3
Minnesota 5–48–13–34–23–93–34–66–6—4–52–53–34–54–8
New York 6–47–38–42–49–03–32–47–25–4—7–58–43–23–4
Oakland 5–73–96–33–60–64–53–71–45–25–7—4–37–35–1
Seattle 4–66–67–21–92–33–64–62–43–34–83–4—9–11–5
Texas 3–35–14–65–47–57–53–43–35–42–33–71–9—4–8
Toronto 2–73–74–33–24–64–56–63–78–44–31–55–18–4—

Notable transactions

Opening Day lineup
  2Otis NixonCF
22Billy HatcherRF
39Mike Greenwell    LF
42Mo Vaughn1B
10Andre DawsonDH
34Scott Cooper3B
13John ValentinSS
23Dave ValleC
  5Scott Fletcher2B
21Roger ClemensP

Roster
1994 Boston Red Sox
Roster
Pitchers
  • 40 Sergio Valdéz
 Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

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

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CDamon Berryhill8225567.263634
1BMo Vaughn111394122.3102682
2BTim Naehring8029782.276742
3BScott Cooper104369104.2821353
SSJohn Valentin8430195.316949
LFMike Greenwell9532788.2691145
CFOtis Nixon103398109.274025
RFBilly Hatcher4416440.244118
DHAndre Dawson7529270.2401648

Other batters
Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Greg Blosser5111.09101
Tom Brunansky4817742.2371034
Wes Chamberlain5116442.256420
Scott Fletcher6318542.227311
Greg Litton11212.09501
Luis Ortiz7183.16706
Carlos Rodriguez5717450.287113
Rich Rowland4611827.229920
Stan Royer491.11101
Lee Tinsley7814432.222214
Andy Tomberlin17367.19411
Dave Valle307612.15815
Eric Wedge260.00000
Bob Zupcic440.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Roger Clemens24170.2972.85168
Aaron Sele22143.1873.83105
Joe Hesketh25114.0854.2683
Danny Darwin1375.2756.3054
Chris Nabholz842.0346.6423

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Tony Fossas442014.7631
Greg A. Harris353428.2844
Chris Howard371013.6322
Jeff Russell2905125.1418
Ken Ryan4223132.4432

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Cory Bailey54.10112.464
Scott Bankhead2737.2324.5425
Steve Farr1113.0106.238
Gar Finnvold836.1045.9417
Todd Frohwirth2226.20310.8013
José Meléndez1016.1016.069
Nate Minchey623.0238.6115
Paul Quantrill1723.0113.5215
Andy Tomberlin12.0000.001
Ricky Trlicek1222.1118.067
Sergio Valdez1214.1018.164
Tim Van Egmond738.1236.3422
Frank Viola637.2114.659


Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball

The Sarasota Red Sox replaced the Fort Lauderdale Red Sox as a Class A-Advanced affiliate.

Level Team League Manager
AAA Pawtucket Red Sox International League Buddy Bailey
AA New Britain Red Sox Eastern League Jim Pankovits
A-Advanced Lynchburg Red Sox Carolina League Mark Meleski
A-Advanced Sarasota Red Sox Florida State League DeMarlo Hale
A-Short Season Utica Blue Sox New York–Penn League Dave Holt
Rookie GCL Red Sox Gulf Coast League Felix Maldonado

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Awards and honors
All-Star Game

Notes
  1. Otis Nixon page at Baseball Reference
  2. Damon Berryhill page at Baseball Reference
  3. Sergio Valdez page at Baseball Reference
  4. Todd Frohwirth page at Baseball Reference
  5. Unassisted Triple Plays by Baseball Almanac
  6. Alex Rodriguez Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
  7. Box Score of Game played on Friday, July 8, 1994 at Fenway Park
  8. 1994 American League Season Summary - Baseball-Reference.com
  9. Mario Díaz page at Baseball Reference
  10. "1994 Boston Red Sox Trades and Transactions". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  11. Nomar Garciaparra page at Baseball Reference
  12. Greg Harris page at Baseball Reference
  13. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
  14. Hutch Award

References
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