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1970 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1970
league	American League
division	East
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City
owners	CBS
general_managers	Lee MacPhail
managers	Ralph Houk
television	WPIX
(Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bob Gamere, Whitey Ford)
radio	WHN
(Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Gamere)

(Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bob Gamere, Whitey Ford) (Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Gamere) |}} The 1970 New York Yankees season was the 68th season for the franchise. The team finished in second place in the American League East with a record of 93–69, 15 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. The 93 wins were the most for the Yankees since 1964. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.

Offseason

December 1, 1969: Tom Shopay was drafted from the Yankees by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 rule 5 draft.
December 4, 1969: Joe Pepitone was traded by the Yankees to the Houston Astros for Curt Blefary.
December 5, 1969: Al Downing and Frank Fernández were traded by the Yankees to the Oakland Athletics for Danny Cater and Ossie Chavarria.
December 18, 1969: Mickey Scott and cash were traded by the Yankees to the Chicago White Sox for Pete Ward.

Regular season

The Yankees went from a record of 80 wins and 81 losses in 1969 to a record of 93 wins and 69 losses.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day lineup

Horace Clarke 2B
Thurman Munson C
Roy White LF
John Ellis 1B
Danny Cater 3B
Bobby Murcer CF
Curt Blefary RF
Gene Michael SS
Mel Stottlemyre P

Notable transactions

September 22, 1970: Bobby Cox was released by the Yankees.

Roster

1970 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

Pos	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
C	132	453	59	137	.302	6	53	5
1B	155	582	64	175	.301	6	76	4
2B	158	686	81	172	.251	4	46	23
3B	140	404	46	78	.193	4	35	20
SS	134	435	42	93	.214	2	38	3
LF	162	609	109	180	.296	22	94	24
CF	159	581	95	146	.251	23	78	15
RF	99	269	34	57	.212	9	37	1

Other batters

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

G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
78	226	24	56	.248	7	29	0
95	225	30	51	.227	8	27	4
49	153	23	46	.301	8	26	2
87	126	20	39	.310	3	14	3
35	117	6	27	.231	0	11	1
59	91	13	27	.297	4	14	0
66	77	5	20	.260	1	18	0
10	22	1	5	.227	0	4	0
16	19	2	6	.316	0	2	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
37	271.0	15	13	3.09	126
39	260.1	20	11	2.90	127
36	232.2	14	11	3.33	116
4	16.2	0	2	10.26	10
1	7.1	1	0	4.91	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
26	98.2	6	3	4.83	63
15	64.0	3	4	3.94	38
26	55.0	2	2	3.11	27
9	20.2	2	0	6.10	12

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
62	9	5	29	2.01	81
45	6	7	1	2.65	40
41	4	2	16	2.06	36
35	4	3	3	2.78	33
7	1	0	0	4.60	8
2	0	0	0	0.00	2
1	0	0	0	4.50	3

Awards and honors

Ralph Houk, Associated Press AL Manager of the Year
Thurman Munson, AL Rookie of the Year
1970 MLB All-Star Game
- Fritz Peterson, reserve
- Mel Stottlemyre, reserve
- Roy White, reserve

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Syracuse

Notes

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/shopato01.shtml Tom Shopay page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/blefacu01.shtml Curt Blefary page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/caterda01.shtml Danny Cater page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wardpe01.shtml Pete Ward page at Baseball Reference]
Yankee for Life, Bobby Murcer and Glen Waggoner, p. 62, Harper Collins, 2008, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-06-147342-5
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/coxbo01.shtml Bobby Cox page at Baseball Reference]
"1970 New York Yankees Statistics".
[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1970as.shtml 1970 All-Star Game]
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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