Boston Red Sox - The Clinton Years (1990-1999)
 
   
 
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        Yr P W L   Yr P W L   Yr P W L               1990  
        1990 1 88 74   1993 5 80 82   1997 4 78 84               Decade  
        1991 2 84 78   1994 4 54 61   1998 2 92 70               Click  
        1992 7 73 89   1995 1 86 58   1999 2 94 68               on Logo  
                  1996 3 85 77                            
                                                       
   
  Titles: Top Red Sox Players of the Nineties  
  1990 Division Champs (Lost to A's in ALDS)  
  1995 Division Champs (Lost to Indians in ALDS) Pitchers:  
  1998 Wild Card (Lost to Indians in ALDS) Roger Clemens (45.36) -    70  
  1999 Wild Card (Lost to Yanks in ALCS) Tim Wakefield (9.87) -    50  
    Pedro Martinez (17.05) -    33  
  BallPark:  Tom Gordon (8.37) -   24  
  Fenway Park Jeff Reardon (3.29) -    23  
    Danny Darwin (8.62) -    22  
  Team Name:  Aaron Sele (8.61) -    22  
  Red Sox Frank Viola (11.05) -    18  
    Joe Hesketh (5.69) -    18  
  Owner: Greg A Harris (7.94) -    18  
  Tom Yawkey Trust  Bret Saberhagen (6.55) -    16  
    Jeff Russell (1.51) -    14  
  General Managers: Mike Boddicker (5.93) -   12    
  Lou Gorman (1990-1993) Erik Hanson (2.95) -   11  
  Dan Duquette (1994-2002) Derek Lowe (4.44) -   7  
       
  Managers: Catchers:  
  Joe Morgan (1990-1991) Tony Pena (1.1) -    24  
  Butch Hobson (1992-1994) Scott Hatteberg (3.59) -    23  
  Kevin Kennedy (1995-1996) Mike Stanley (6.65) -   17  
  Jimmy Williams (1997-1999)    
    First Basemen:  
  No Hitters: Mo Vaughn (32.29) -    52  
  None    
    Second Basemen:  
  Hall of Famers: Jody Reed (7.55) -    17  
  Pedro Martinez   Tim Naehring (12.7) -    16  
   Dennis Eckersley Scott Fletcher (5.75) -   9  
  Roger Clemens (Pending)    
  Wade Boggs ShortStop:  
    Nomar Garciaparra (20.44) -    35  
  Rookie of the Year:    
  Nomar Garciaparra (1997) Third Base:  
    John Valentin (32.29) -    68  
  MVP:  Wade Boggs (11.76) -   20  
  Mo Vaughn (1995) Scott Cooper (6.79) -    15  
       
  MVP:  Outfield:  
  Roger Clemens (1991) Mike Greenwell (10.42) -    27  
  Pedro Martinez (1999) Tom Brunansky (3.35) -    27  
    Troy O'Leary (7.31) -    25  
  Notable Events: Ellis Burks (6.98) -    18  
    Carlos Quintana (3.23) -    17  
  1990 - A rollercoaster decade for the Sox. They win the Division twice, Darren Lewis (3.76) -    15  
  but aren't competitive in either post season. Boston also sprinkles in Darren Bragg (6.2) -   13  
  four sub .500 seasons into the mix. By the end of the decade, Jose Canseco (5.5) -   13  
   however, Boston is on the upswing finishing second twice and     
  winning over 90 games in both '98 and '99. The Sox make it as a Notable Events:  
  Wild Card in both '98 and '99.  
    1996- Roger Clemens strikes out twenty Tigers in a game  
  1990 - History repeats itself as the Red Sox win the weak AL matching his twenty strikeout effort ten years earlier. Amazing.  
  East Division title and then get swept in the ALCS - same as '88 Clemens leaves the Red Sox for the Blue Jays via Free Agency  
    after the season. After going 40-39 over the past four seasons,  
  1991 - Roger Clemens wins the Cy Young. Its his third. the Sox figured Clemens was washed up. They were wrong.  
    Unclear when Roger started taking the 'roids, but his performance  
  1991 - 1B Mo Vaughn comes up as a twenty three year old rookie after leaving the Sox was other worldly with Toronto.   
  Mo was a first round pick in the '89 draft.  
    1997 - Nomar bursts onto the scene and wins Rookie of the Year.  
  1992 - Wade Boggs bolts for the Yankees as a free agent He has all the earmarks of the next great Red Sox hitter.  
    Garciaparra, 23, had been selected in the first round of the '94 draft.  
  1992 - Twenty five year old rookie 3B John Valentin joins the club.    
  He will remain with the club for the next ten years, most of them  1998 - Pedro Martinez, 26, is signed as a free agent from the Expos.   
  as a starter. He had a big 1995 when the Sox won the Division. GM Dan Duquette explains that it was either Pedro or Clemens. Pedro  
  John was a fifth round pick in the '88 draft. leads the Sox to the wild card and wins game one, breaking the   
    thirteen game losing streak. However, Boston loses the final three to make  
  1995 - The Sox sign twenty eight year old knuckleballer Tim    it sixteen losses out of the last seventeen.postseason games  Meanwhile  
  Wakefield. He had been released by the Pirates. Boston got   the Yanks win 125 games and the World Series.   
  extremely lucky on this one as Wakefield goes on to pitch seventeen    
  seasons for Boston. His 16-8 record is a huge reason that the 1999 - OF Trot Nixon, 25, is a rookie. He was a first round draft pick in  
  Red Sox become Division champs.  the 1993 draft.   
       
  1995 - Boston wins the Division, but gets swept by  1999- Sox lose Mo Vaughn to the Angels in Free Agency.   
  Cleveland in the ALDS. This moved their streak to thirteen Even tho' he had hit 40 homers, the Sox still have plenty of hitting.  
  straight losses in the post season. Their last two to the Mets  
  in the 1986 World Series. Followed by two four game sweeps 1999 - Pedro wins the Cy Young leading Boston to the wild card.  
  by the A's in the 1988 and 1990 ALCS and now three more to The Sox lose the first two to Cleveland, making it eighteen out of  
  the Indians. It seemed that even when the Red Sox succeeded, nineteen, before winning the last three. Boston then gets beat by the  
  it was meant to set up their fans for an even bigger letdown later on. Yanks in the ALCS. Boston's upsurge in '98 and '99 was mainly on the  
    back of Pedro's dominant pitching.