1996 San Diego Padres season

The 1996 San Diego Padres season was the 28th season in franchise history.

1996 San Diego Padres
National League West Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
  • Jack Murphy Stadium (since 1969)
  • San Diego, California (since 1969)
Other information
Owner(s)Tom Werner, John Moores
General manager(s)Kevin Towers
Manager(s)Bruce Bochy
Local televisionKFMB-TV
Prime Sports
(Jerry Coleman, Ted Leitner, Bob Chandler, Ken Levine)
Local radioKFMB (AM)
(Jerry Coleman, Ted Leitner, Bob Chandler, Ken Levine)
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Offseason
  • October 28, 1995: Rico Rossy was signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.[1]
  • November 29, 1995: Mike Sharperson signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.[2]
  • December 7, 1995: Fernando Valenzuela signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.
  • December 14, 1995: Doug Dascenzo was signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.[3]
  • December 21, 1995: Wally Joyner was traded by the Kansas City Royals with Aaron Dorlarque (minors) to the San Diego Padres for Bip Roberts and Bryan Wolff (minors).[4]
  • December 21, 1995: Mike Oquist was signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.[5]
  • December 29, 1995: Rickey Henderson signed as a Free Agent with the San Diego Padres.
  • March 22, 1996: Melvin Nieves was traded by the San Diego Padres with Raul Casanova and Richie Lewis to the Detroit Tigers for Sean Bergman, Todd Steverson, and Cade Gaspar (minors).[6]

Regular season

Opening Day starters
  • Brad Ausmus
  • Ken Caminiti
  • Andújar Cedeño
  • Steve Finley
  • Tony Gwynn
  • Joey Hamilton
  • Rickey Henderson
  • Wally Joyner
  • Jody Reed

Season standings
NL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
San Diego Padres 9171 0.562 — 45–36 46–35
Los Angeles Dodgers 9072 0.556 1 47–34 43–38
Colorado Rockies 8379 0.512 8 55–26 28–53
San Francisco Giants 6894 0.420 23 38–44 30–50

Record vs. opponents
1996 National League Records

Sources:
Team ATL CHC CIN COL FLA HOU LAD MON NYM PHI PIT SD SF STL
Atlanta —7–57–55–76–76–65–710–37–69–49–39–47–59–4
Chicago 5–7—5–85–76–65–88–56–67–57–64–96–67–55–8
Cincinnati 5–78–5—7–63–97–64–83–96–610–25–89–39–45–8
Colorado 7–57–56–7—5–88–56–73–97–56–67–58–55–88–4
Florida 7–66–69–38–5—7–56–75–87–66–75–73–95–76–6
Houston 6–68–56–75–85–7—6–64–98–410–28–56–68–42–11
Los Angeles 7–55–88–47–67–66–6—9–38–47–66–65–87–68–4
Montreal 3–106–69–39–38–59–43–9—7–66–77–54–89–48–4
New York 6–75–76–65–76–74–84–86–7—7–68–53–106–65–7
Philadelphia 4-96–72–106–67–62–106–77–66–7—7–54–86–64–8
Pittsburgh 3–99–48–55–77–55–86–65–75–85–7—4–98–43–10
San Diego 4–96–63–95–89–36–68–58–410–38–49–4—11–24–8
San Francisco 5–75–74–98–57–54–86–74–96–66–64–82–11—7–6
St. Louis 4–98–58–54–86–611-24–84–87–58–410–38–46–7—

Game log
1996 Game Log: 91–71 (Home: 45–36; Away: 46–35)
April: 17–10 (Home: 8–6; Away: 9–4)
May: 17–10 (Home: 9–5; Away: 8–5)
June: 9–19 (Home: 3–12; Away: 6–7)
July: 15–12 (Home: 9–4; Away: 6–8)
August: 18–10 (Home: 9–4; Away: 9–6)
September: 15–10 (Home: 7–5; Away: 8–5)
Legend:           = Win           = Loss
Bold = Padres team member

Detailed records

Notable transactions
  • July 31, 1996: Marc Newfield was traded by the San Diego Padres with Bryce Florie and Ron Villone to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later and Greg Vaughn. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Gerald Parent (minors) (September 16, 1996) to the San Diego Padres to complete the trade.[8]

Roster
1996 San Diego Padres
Roster
Pitchers 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
C John Flaherty 72 263 80 .303 9 41
1B Wally Joyner 121 433 120 .277 8 64
2B Jody Reed 146 495 121 .244 2 49
SS Chris Gomez 89 328 86 .262 3 29
3B Ken Caminiti 146 546 178 .326 40 130
LF Rickey Henderson 148 465 112 .241 9 29
CF Steve Finley 161 655 195 .298 30 95
RF Tony Gwynn 116 451 159 .353 3 50

Other batters

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

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Brian Johnson 82 243 66 .272 8 35
Archi Cianfrocco 79 192 54 .281 2 32
Marc Newfield 84 191 48 .251 5 26
Scott Livingstone 102 172 51 .297 2 20
Andújar Cedeño 49 154 36 .234 3 18
Brad Ausmus 50 149 27 .181 1 13
Greg Vaughn 43 141 29 .206 10 22
Luis López 63 139 25 .180 2 11
Craig Shipley 33 92 29 .315 1 7
Chris Gwynn 81 90 16 .178 1 10
Rob Deer 25 50 9 .180 4 9
Jason Thompson 13 49 11 .224 2 6
Doug Dascenzo 21 9 1 .111 0 0
Jim Tatum 5 3 0 .000 0 0
Sean Mulligan 2 1 0 .000 0 0
Todd Stevenson 1 1 0 .000 0 0

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Joey Hamilton 34 211.2 15 9 4.17 184
Bob Tewksbury 36 206.2 10 10 4.31 126
Fernando Valenzuela 33 171.2 13 8 3.62 95
Andy Ashby 24 150.2 9 5 3.23 85

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Scott Sanders 46 144.0 9 5 3.38 157
Tim Worrell 50 121.0 9 7 3.05 99
Sean Bergman 41 113.1 6 8 4.37 85

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Trevor Hoffman 70 9 5 42 2.25 111
Doug Bochtler 63 2 4 3 3.02 68
Willie Blair 60 2 6 1 4.60 67
Bryce Florie 39 2 2 0 4.01 51
Dario Veras 23 3 1 0 2.79 23
Ron Villone 21 1 1 0 2.95 19
Al Osuna 10 0 0 0 2.25 4
Dustin Hermanson 8 1 0 0 8.56 11
Mike Oquist 8 0 0 0 2.35 4
Andrés Berumen 3 0 0 0 5.40 4
Glenn Dishman 3 0 0 0 7.71 0
Pete Walker 1 0 0 0 0.00 1

National League Division Series
Main article: 1996 National League Division Series

St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Diego Padres

St. Louis wins the series, 3-0

Game Home Score Visitor Score Date Series
1St. Louis3San Diego1October 11-0 (STL)
2St. Louis5San Diego4October 32-0 (STL)
3San Diego5St. Louis7October 53-0 (STL)

The Cardinals and Padres began their rivalry in this series. The Cardinals' first of three postseason victories against the Padres took place here. Their dominance is overwhelming to the tune of only one loss against the Padres lifetime in the postseason.
A 3-run homer by Gary Gaetti off Joey Hamilton put the Cardinals up for good. Todd Stottlemyre pitched masterfully, allowing only one earned run on a solo home run by Rickey Henderson. Rick Honeycutt and Dennis Eckersley shut the Padres down for the win.
A well fought Game 2 saw the Cardinals squander two leads. Scott Sanders faced Andy Benes. Willie McGee put the Cardinals on top on the 3rd with an RBI single. Ken Caminiti tied the game with a leadoff homer in the 5th. Ron Gant cleared the bases with a double in the Cardinals 5th to make it 4-1. A 2 run single by Tony Gwynn made it a one run game in the Padres 6th. An RBI ground out by Steve Finley tied the game in the Padres 8th. But the Cardinals would score a run in the 8th on an RBI ground out that scored Brian Jordan. Dennis Eckersley got his 2nd save of the postseason.
In Game 3, the Cardinals looked to Donovan Osborne to put the Padres away. Opposing the potential sweep would be Andy Ashby. Brian Jordan put the Cardinals ahead when he singled to center field to score Royce Clayton. A would-be double play ball in the bottom of the 2nd helped the Padres take the lead 2-1. Then Ken Caminiti homered to make it 3-1 in the 3rd. An RBI single in the bottom of the 4th made it 4-1 Padres and Osborne was done. But the Cardinals were not about to let the series go another game. A leadoff homer by Ron Gant made it 4-2 in the 6th. But a one-out triple by John Mabry scored Jordan and a single would bring him home to tie the game at 4. The Cardinals would take the lead in the 7th when Ray Lankford scored on a double play. The Padres were now 6 outs from being eliminated. But when Caminiti hit his second homer of the game to tie it at 5, the Padres were still alive. However, the Cardinals put the game away in the top of the 9th when Jordan hit a two-run homer that proved to be the series winner. A one-out single by Rickey Henderson in the 9th put the tying run at the plate but nothing would be made of it as Eckersley got his 3rd save in as many tries to win the series.

Award winners
  • Ken Caminiti, National League Most Valuable Player

1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

  • Tony Gwynn
  • Ken Caminiti

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Las Vegas Stars Pacific Coast League Jerry Royster
AA Memphis Chicks Southern League Ed Romero
A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes California League Mike Basso
A Clinton LumberKings Midwest League Mike Ramsey
Rookie AZL Padres Arizona League Larry See
Rookie Idaho Falls Braves Pioneer League Don Werner

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: AZL Padres[9]

References
  1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rossyri01.shtml
  2. Mike Sharperson Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dascedo01.shtml
  4. Wally Joyner Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  5. https://www.baseball-reference.com/o/oquismi01.shtml
  6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/n/nieveme01.shtml
  7. Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.371, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
  8. https://www.baseball-reference.com/n/newfima01.shtml
  9. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
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