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The 2004 Major League Baseball season ended when the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in a four-game World Series sweep. The Red Sox championship ended an 86-year-long drought known as the Curse of the Bambino .
The 2004 Major League Baseball draft, was held on June 7 and 8. It was conducted via conference call with representatives from each of the league's 30 teams. The draft marked the first time three players from the same university were chosen in the first ten picks. Source: MLB.com 2004 Draft Tracker
Through investigation of the package, Major League Baseball discovered that "players with the El Paso Diablos, a minor league affiliate of the Diamondbacks, regularly crossed the border into Mexico to purchase steroids." Cabrera was unable to be tested regarding the package, [122] but denied ever having used steroids after the report was released.
Curt Schilling was a pitcher in the MLB for 20 seasons and is well known for heroically playing in the 2004 World Series with a tendon injury. He retired in 2007 and went on to work as a baseball ...
2004 also marked the final year of the Montreal Expos, who relocated at season's end to Washington, D.C., and become known as the Washington Nationals. For the first time in Japanese professional baseball history, players in Nippon Professional Baseball went on strike for two days because of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment.
The 2004 season was the Yankees third straight season of 100+ wins, the first such instance in franchise history. New York was managed by Joe Torre . In the playoffs, the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 1, in the ALDS , before losing to the wild card Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3, in the ALCS .
The Seattle Mariners 2004 season was their 28th, and they finished last in the American League West at 63–99. This was their first losing season since 1999 . Ichiro Suzuki set the major league record for hits in a season on October 1, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old mark with a pair of early singles.
This is the all-time roster for Major League Baseball's ... Players in Bold are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Players in ... 3B, OF, 2004; Jonah ...