1998 Toronto Blue Jays season

1998 Toronto Blue Jays
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s) Interbrew,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
General manager(s) Gord Ash
Manager(s) Tim Johnson
Local television CBC Television
(Brian Williams, John Cerutti)
The Sports Network
(Dan Shulman, Buck Martinez)
Local radio CHUM (AM)
(Jerry Howarth, Tom Cheek)
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The 1998 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's twenty-second season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing third in the American League East with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses, which was their best record from their 1993 World Series-winning season until 2015.

With the disappointing last-place finish of the previous year, General Manager Gord Ash once again dug into the wallet to improve the team, signing reliever Randy Myers and slugger José Canseco as free agents. Though the team improved noticeably (thanks to another pitching Triple Crown and Cy Young Award-winning campaign by ace hurler Roger Clemens and a powerful lineup that featured Canseco, Carlos Delgado, Shawn Green, and José Cruz, Jr.), they could not finish ahead of the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox, who won 114 and 92 games en route to winning the division crown and Wild Card respectively.

Offseason

Regular season

Season standings

AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 114 48 0.704 — 62–19 52–29
Boston Red Sox 92 70 0.568 22 51–30 41–40
Toronto Blue Jays 88 74 0.543 26 51–30 37–44
Baltimore Orioles 79 83 0.488 35 42–39 37–44
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 63 99 0.389 51 33–48 30–51

Record vs. opponents

1998 American League Records

Sources:

Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL 
Anaheim — 5–6 6–5 5–6 4–7 8–3 6–5 6–5 6–5 5–7 9–3 6–5 5–7 4–7 10–6
Baltimore 6–5 — 6–6 2–9 5–6 10–1 5–6 7–3 3–9 8–3 6–5 5–7 6–5 5–7 5–11
Boston 5–6 6–6 — 5–6 8–3 5–5 8–3 5–6 5–7 9–2 7–4 9–3 6–5 5–7 9–7
Chicago 6–5 9–2 6–5 — 6–6 6–6 8–4 6–6 4–7 4–7 4–7 5–6 5–6 4–6–1 7–9
Cleveland 7–4 6–5 3–8 6–6 — 9–3 8–4 6–6 4–7 3–8 9–2 7–3 4–7 7–4 10–6
Detroit 3–8 1–10 5–5 6–6 3–9 — 6–6 8–4 3–8 7–4 3–8 5–6 3–8 5–6 7–9
Kansas City 5–6 6–5 3–8 4–8 4–8 6–6 — 7–5 0–10 7–4 4–6 8–3 3–8 6–5 9–7
Minnesota 5–6 3–7 6–5 6–6 6–6 4–8 5–7 — 4–7 4–7 2–9 7–4 7–4 4–7 7–9
New York 5–6 9–3 7–5 7–4 7–4 8–3 10–0 7–4 — 8–3 8–3 11–1 8–3 6–6 13–3
Oakland 7–5 3–8 2–9 7–4 8–3 4–7 4–7 7–4 3–8 — 5–7 5–6 6–6 5–6 8–8
Seattle 3–9 5–6 4–7 7–4 2–9 8–3 6–4 9–2 3–8 7–5 — 6–5 5–7 4–7 7–9
Tampa Bay 5–6 7–5 3–9 6–5 3–7 6–5 3–8 4–7 1–11 6–5 5–6 — 4–7 5–7 5–11
Texas 7–5 5–6 5–6 6–5 7–4 8–3 8–3 4–7 3–8 6–6 7–5 7–4 — 7–4 8–8
Toronto 7–4 7–5 7–5 6–4–1 4–7 6–5 5–6 7–4 6–6 6–5 7–4 7–5 4–7 — 9–7

Notable transactions

Roster

1998 Toronto Blue Jays
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Manager

Coaches

Game log

1998 Game Log

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

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

Pos. Player G AB R H HR RBI Avg. Slg. SB
C Darrin Fletcher 124 407 37 115 9 52 .283 .4100
1B Carlos Delgado 142 503 94 155 38 115 .292 .5923
2B Craig Grebeck 102 301 33 77 2 27 .256 .3462
3B Ed Sprague 105 382 49 91 17 51 .238 .4240
SS Alex Gonzalez 158 568 70 136 13 51 .239 .36121
LF Shannon Stewert 144 516 90 144 12 55 .279 .41751
CF Jose Cruz Jr. 105 352 55 89 11 42 .253 .40311
RF Shawn Green 158 630 106 175 35 100 .278 .51035
DH Jose Canseco 151 583 98 138 46 107 .237 .51829

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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

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

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

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

Award winners

All-Star Game

Farm system

Level Team League Manager
AAA Syracuse SkyChiefs International League Terry Bevington
AA Knoxville Smokies Southern League Omar Malavé
A Dunedin Blue Jays Florida State League Rocket Wheeler
A Hagerstown Suns South Atlantic League Marty Pevey
A-Short Season St. Catharines Stompers New York–Penn League Duane Larson
Rookie Medicine Hat Blue Jays Pioneer League Rolando Pino

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/j/johnsda05.shtml
  2. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/daalom01.shtml
  3. 1 2 Randy Myers Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  4. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grebecr01.shtml
  5. ↑ Juan Samuel Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  6. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fernato01.shtml
  7. 1 2 Jacob Brumfield Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  8. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/crabtti01.shtml
  9. ↑ Felipe López Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  10. 1 2 Tony Phillips Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
  11. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/1998.shtml
  12. ↑ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.234, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
  13. ↑ Blue Jays All-Stars | bluejays.com: History
  14. ↑ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

External links

Preceded by
1997 Toronto Blue Jays season		 1998 Toronto Blue Jays Season
1998 		Succeeded by
1999 Toronto Blue Jays season
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