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April 17, 1984: Oscar Gamble was signed as a free agent by the Yankees. [8] July 18, 1984: Roy Smalley was traded by the Yankees to the Chicago White Sox for players to be named later. The White Sox completed the deal by sending Doug Drabek and Kevin Hickey to the Yankees on August 13. [9]
Lawrence William Milbourne (born February 14, 1951) is an American former professional baseball utility infielder whose career spanned 15 seasons, 11 of which were spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Houston Astros (1974–76), Seattle Mariners (1977–1980, 1984), New York Yankees (1981–82, 1983), Minnesota Twins (1982), Cleveland Indians (1982), and Philadelphia Phillies (1983).
On March 3, 1984, Peter Ueberroth was elected by the owners as the sixth commissioner of baseball (replacing retiring commissioner Bowie Kuhn) and officially took office on October 1 of that year. As a condition of his hiring, Ueberroth increased the commissioner's fining ability from US$5,000 to $250,000.
February 14 – Loren Babe, 56, third baseman who played in 120 games for the New York Yankees (1952–1953) and Philadelphia Athletics (1953); later a minor league manager and MLB coach for the Yankees (1967) and Chicago White Sox (1979–1980 and 1983).
[2] [3] Borris made 23 relief appearances for the Twins pitching 49 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings and accumulating a 1–2 win–loss record with a 3.99 earned run average and 30 strikeouts. [4] In 1983, he played for Triple-A Toledo and the Double-A Orlando Twins. [3] Borris played his last professional season with the Atlanta Braves' Triple-A Richmond ...
The 1984 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1984 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
March 26, 1982: Tim Corcoran was released by the Minnesota Twins. [5] April 10, 1982: Roy Smalley III was traded by the Twins to the New York Yankees for Ron Davis, Greg Gagne and Paul Boris. [6] May 12, 1982: Doug Corbett and Rob Wilfong were traded by the Twins to the California Angels for Tom Brunansky, Mike Walters, and $400,000. [7]
The pitching staff was average—a staff of twentysomethings and a 33-year-old closer, Goose Gossage (10–6, 25 SVs), who was signed as a free agent from the New York Yankees. Eric Show led the staff with 15 wins with Ed Whitson and lefty Mark Thurmond having identical 14–8 records. But the sterling bullpen, headed by Gossage and Craig ...