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1991 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1991
league	American League
division	East
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City
record
divisional_place	5th
owners	George Steinbrenner and Robert Nederlander (managing general partner)
general_managers	Gene Michael
managers	Stump Merrill
television	WPIX
(Phil Rizzuto, Tom Seaver, Bobby Murcer)
MSG
(Tony Kubek, Dewayne Staats, Al Trautwig)
radio	WABC (AM)
(John Sterling, Joe Angel)

(Phil Rizzuto, Tom Seaver, Bobby Murcer) MSG (Tony Kubek, Dewayne Staats, Al Trautwig) (John Sterling, Joe Angel) |}}

The 1991 New York Yankees season was the 89th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 71–91 finishing 20 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays. New York was managed by Stump Merrill. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.

Offseason

October 5, 1990: Wayne Tolleson was released by the New York Yankees.
November 19, 1990: Tim Leary was signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees.
December 3, 1990: Frank Seminara was drafted by the San Diego Padres from the New York Yankees in the 1990 rule 5 draft.
December 31, 1990: Scott Sanderson was purchased by the New York Yankees from the Oakland Athletics.
January 13, 1991: Rick Cerone was released by the New York Yankees.
March 19, 1991: Torey Lovullo was traded by the Detroit Tigers to the New York Yankees for Mark Leiter.

Regular season

Steve Sax led the Yankees with a .304 batting average, 198 hits, 85 runs, and 38 doubles.
April 11, 1991 – Roberto Kelly had 5 RBI in a game versus the Detroit Tigers.
June 23, 1991 – Roberto Kelly had 5 hits in a game versus the eventual World Champion Minnesota Twins.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Detailed records

American League	Opponent			L
[Baltimore Orioles](1991-baltimore-orioles-season)	8	5	59	55
[Boston Red Sox](1991-boston-red-sox-season)	7	6	55	53
[Cleveland Indians](1991-cleveland-indians-season)	7	6	54	42
[Detroit Tigers](1991-detroit-tigers-season)	5	8	69	77
[Milwaukee Brewers](1991-milwaukee-brewers-season)	7	6	61	64
New York Yankees
[Toronto Blue Jays](1991-toronto-blue-jays-season)	6	7	50	57
[California Angels](1991-california-angels-season)	6	6	48	64
[Chicago White Sox](1991-chicago-white-sox-season)	4	8	52	77
[Kansas City Royals](1991-kansas-city-royals-season)	5	7	46	59
[Minnesota Twins](1991-minnesota-twins-season)	2	10	46	64
[Oakland Athletics](1991-oakland-athletics-season)	6	6	56	59
[Seattle Mariners](1991-seattle-mariners-season)	3	9	32	43
[Texas Rangers](1991-texas-rangers-season)	5	7	46	63

Month	Games	Won	Lost	RS	RA
April	17	6	11	79	93
May	27	14	13	111	107
June	27	13	14	123	122
July	26	13	13	109	121
August	31	12	19	137	183
September	28	9	19	85	126
October	6	4	2	30	25

Games	Won	Lost	Win %	RS	RA	Home	Away	Total		162		71		91				674		777
81	39	42		356	380
81	32	49		318	397

Notable transactions

April 1, 1991: Steve Balboni was released by the New York Yankees.
April 5, 1991: Scott Lusader was selected off waivers by the New York Yankees from the Detroit Tigers.
May 9, 1991: Andy Hawkins was released by the New York Yankees.
May 17, 1991: Mike Blowers was traded by the New York Yankees to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later and cash. The Seattle Mariners sent Jim Blueberg (minors) (June 22, 1991) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.
May 25, 1991: Andy Pettite was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent.

Draft picks

With the first overall pick in the MLB draft, the New York Yankees selected Brien Taylor. He was a left-handed pitcher from Beaufort, North Carolina who competed at East Carteret High School.

Notable draft picks

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Amateur Club
5	126	Lyle Mouton	OF	Louisiana State University
9	230	Keith Garagozzo	LHP	University of Delaware

Roster

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Pitchers

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	Matt Nokes	135	456	122	.268	24	77
1B	Don Mattingly	152	587	169	.288	9	68
2B	Steve Sax	158	652	198	.304	10	56
3B	Pat Kelly	96	298	72	.242	3	23
SS	Álvaro Espinoza	148	480	123	.256	5	33
LF	Mel Hall	141	492	140	.285	19	80
CF	Bernie Williams	85	320	76	.238	3	34
RF	Jesse Barfield	84	284	64	.225	17	48
DH	Kevin Maas	148	500	110	.220	23	63

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
Roberto Kelly	126	486	130	.267	20	69
Hensley Meulens	96	288	64	.222	6	29
Randy Velarde	80	184	45	.245	1	15
Bob Geren	64	128	28	.219	2	12
Pat Sheridan	62	113	23	.204	4	7
Jim Leyritz	32	77	14	.182	0	4
Torey Lovullo	22	51	9	.176	0	2
Mike Humphreys	25	40	8	.200	0	3
Carlos Rodríguez	15	37	7	.189	0	2
Mike Blowers	15	35	7	.200	1	1
John Ramos	10	26	8	.308	0	3
Scott Lusader	11	7	1	.143	0	1

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Scott Sanderson	34	208.0	16	10	3.81	130
Jeff Johnson	23	127.0	6	11	5.95	62
Wade Taylor	23	116.1	7	12	6.27	72
Pascual Pérez	14	73.2	2	4	3.18	41
Dave Eiland	18	72.2	2	5	5.33	18
Scott Kamieniecki	9	55.1	4	4	3.90	34
Chuck Cary	10	53.1	1	6	5.91	34
Andy Hawkins	4	12.2	0	2	9.95	5
Mike Witt	2	5.1	0	1	10.13	0

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Tim Leary	28	120.2	4	10	6.49	83
Eric Plunk	43	111.2	2	5	4.76	103
Alan Mills	6	16.1	1	1	4.41	11

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Steve Farr	60	5	5	23	2.19	60
Greg Cadaret	68	8	6	3	3.62	105
John Habyan	66	4	2	2	2.30	70
Lee Guetterman	64	3	4	6	3.68	35
Steve Howe	37	3	1	3	1.68	34
Rich Monteleone	26	3	1	0	3.64	34
Darrin Chapin	3	0	1	0	5.06	5
Álvaro Espinoza	1	0	0	0	0.00	0

Farm system

References

"Wayne Tolleson Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/l/learyti01.shtml Tim Leary Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
"Frank Seminara Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sandesc01.shtml Scott Sanderson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/ceronri01.shtml Rick Cerone Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
"Torey Lovullo Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/balbost01.shtml Steve Balboni Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
"Scott Lusader Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hawkian01.shtml Andy Hawkins Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/blowemi01.shtml Mike Blowers Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pettian01.shtml Andy Pettitte Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?franch_ID=NYY&year_ID=1991&draft_type=junreg Baseball Draft: 1991 Yankees Picks in the June Draft - Baseball-Reference.com]
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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