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1992 Seattle Mariners season

Field	Value
name	Seattle Mariners
season	1992
<!--	logo	SeattleMariners 100.png --
league	American League
division	West
record
divisional_place	7th
ballpark	Kingdome
city	Seattle, Washington
owners	Jeff Smulyan, purchased by
Hiroshi Yamauchi in July
general_managers	Woody Woodward
managers	Bill Plummer
television	KSTW-TV 11
radio	KIRO 710 AM
(Dave Niehaus, Ken Levine,
Billy Sample)

Hiroshi Yamauchi in July (Dave Niehaus, Ken Levine, Billy Sample) |}} The 1992 Seattle Mariners season was their 16th since the franchise creation. The team finished seventh (last) in the American League West with a record of .

After a then franchise-best 83 wins the previous season, the Mariners finished with nineteen fewer, the largest one-year decline in team history. The team ownership was transferred in July from Jeff Smulyan to Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z1xWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WvADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6452%2C800094

Lefthanded starter Randy Johnson won the first of four consecutive strikeout titles with 241. In his third full season in the majors, 29-year-old third baseman Edgar Martínez batted .343 to lead the majors and win the first of his two American League batting titles. He hit .388 in July and .395 in August and was the league's player of the month for both.

Offseason

October 11, 1991: The Mariners decided not to bring back manager Jim Lefebvre, along with pitching coach Mike Paul for the 1992 season.
October 29, 1991: Third base coach Bill Plummer was promoted to manager.
December 11, 1991: Bill Swift, Mike Jackson, and Dave Burba were traded by the Mariners to the San Francisco Giants for Kevin Mitchell and Mike Remlinger.
February 19, 1992: Shane Turner was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.
March 9, 1992: John Moses was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

April 4: Mario Díaz was signed as a free agent by the Mariners.
May 29: Mario Díaz was released by the Mariners.
May 29: Bill Haselman was selected off waivers by the Mariners from the Texas Rangers.
August 22: Sean Twitty (minors) was traded by the Mariners to the New York Yankees for Tim Leary and cash.

Roster

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Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	Dave Valle	124	367	88	.240	9	30
1B	Tino Martinez	136	460	118	.257	16	66
2B	Harold Reynolds	140	458	113	.247	3	33
3B	Edgar Martínez	135	528	181	.343	18	73
SS	Omar Vizquel	136	483	142	.294	0	21
LF	Kevin Mitchell	99	360	103	.286	9	67
CF	Ken Griffey Jr.	142	565	174	.308	27	103
RF	Jay Buhner	152	543	132	.243	25	79
DH	Pete O'Brien	134	396	88	.222	14	52

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
Henry Cotto	108	294	76	.259	5	27
Greg Briley	86	200	55	.275	5	12
Lance Parrish	69	192	45	.234	8	21
Dave Cochrane	65	152	38	.250	2	12
Bret Boone	33	129	25	.194	4	15
Rich Amaral	35	100	24	.240	1	7
Shane Turner	34	74	20	.270	0	5
Mike Blowers	31	73	14	.192	1	2
Jeff Schaefer	65	70	8	.114	1	3
Dann Howitt	13	37	10	.270	1	8
Matt Sinatro	18	28	3	.107	0	0
John Moses	21	22	3	.136	0	1
Bill Haselman	8	19	5	.263	0	0
Bert Heffernan	8	11	1	.091	0	1
Patrick Lennon	1	2	0	.000	0	0
Scott Bradley	2	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

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
Dave Fleming	33	228.1	17	10	3.39	112
Randy Johnson	31	210.1	12	14	3.77	241
Erik Hanson	31	186.2	8	17	4.82	112
Tim Leary	8	44.0	3	4	4.91	12
Randy Kramer	4	16.1	0	1	7.71	6

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
Brian Fisher	22	91.1	4	3	4.53	26
Rich DeLucia	30	83.2	3	6	5.49	66
Mark Grant	23	81.0	2	4	3.89	42
Clay Parker	8	33.1	0	2	7.56	20
Mike Walker	5	14.2	0	3	7.36	5

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
Mike Schooler	53	2	7	13	4.70	33
Jeff Nelson	66	1	7	6	3.44	46
Russ Swan	55	3	10	9	4.74	45
Dennis Powell	49	4	2	0	4.58	35
Calvin Jones	38	3	5	0	5.69	49
Jim Acker	17	0	0	0	5.28	11
Juan Agosto	17	0	0	0	5.89	12
Shawn Barton	14	0	1	0	2.92	4
Eric Gunderson	9	2	1	0	8.68	2
Kerry Woodson	8	0	1	0	3.29	6
Gene Harris	8	0	0	0	7.00	6
Dave Schmidt	3	0	0	0	18.90	1
Kevin Brown	2	0	0	0	9.00	2

Awards and honors

Randy Johnson, American League leader, Strikeouts
Edgar Martínez, Major League leader, Batting average

Farm system

References

(October 5, 1992). "Baseball: American League". Spokesman-Review.
LaRue, Larry. (October 6, 1992). "M's had their highs and lows". Spokesman-Review.
Cour, Jim. (October 5, 1992). "M's beat McDowell in season finale". Spokesman-Review.
(June 12, 1992). "Mariners' sale gains approval of the owners". Eugene Register-Guard.
(June 13, 1992). "M's owners expect city to produce". Spokesman-Review.
(July 2, 1992). "Mariners have new owner as sale completed". Spokesman-Review.
(October 14, 1992). "New owners figure one year is enough". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
(October 14, 1992). "Plummer, all coaches fired by M's". Spokesman-Review.
Finnigan, Bob. (November 10, 1992). "Piniella takes Mariners' helm". Spokesman-Review.
(November 10, 1992). "Piniella assumes Mariners' helm". Eugene Register-Guard.
"Randy Johnson | baseballbiography.com".
(October 5, 1992). "Martinez wins first batting title". Spokesman-Review.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mitchke01.shtml Kevin Mitchell page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/turnesh01.shtml Shane Turner page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mosesjo01.shtml John Moses page at Baseball Reference]
"Mario Diaz Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/haselbi01.shtml Bill Haselman page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/l/learyti01.shtml Tim Leary page at Baseball Reference]
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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