1996 California Angels season

1996 California Angels
1996 California Angels
	File:Los angeles angels.png
Division	West Division
Ballpark	Anaheim Stadium
City	Anaheim, California
Owners	Gene Autry
Managers	Marcel Lachemann, John McNamara, and Joe Maddon
Television	KTLA; Prime Sports West; (Ken Wilson, Ken Brett)
Radio	KMPC; (Bob Starr, Mario Impemba)

The California Angels' 1996 season involved the Angels finishing 4th in the American League West with a record of 70 wins and 91 losses.

The season was notable for being the final season the franchise bore the "California Angels" moniker, as the team name was changed to "Anaheim Angels" the following season.

The Angels used 29 different pitchers during the season, the most of any MLB team in 1996.^[1]

Offseason

November 21, 1995: Randy Velarde was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[2]
December 6, 1995: Mike Aldrete signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[3]
December 7, 1995: Scott Sanderson was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[4]
December 18, 1995: Todd Frohwirth was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[5]
January 9, 1996: Jim Abbott signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[6]
February 6, 1996: Mark Eichhorn was signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels. ^[7]
March 25, 1996: Ricky Jordan was purchased by the Seattle Mariners from the California Angels.^[8]

Regular season

Season standings

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AL West
Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Texas Rangers	90	72	.556	—	50‍–‍31	40‍–‍41
Seattle Mariners	85	76	.528	4½	43‍–‍38	42‍–‍38
Oakland Athletics	78	84	.481	12	40‍–‍41	38‍–‍43
California Angels	70	91	.435	19½	43‍–‍38	27‍–‍53

Record vs. opponents

1996 American League record v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Team	BAL	BOS	CAL	CWS	CLE	DET	KC	MIL	MIN	NYY	OAK	SEA	TEX	TOR
Baltimore	—	7–6	6–6	4–8	5–7	11–2	9–3	9–3	7–5	3–10	9–4	7–5	3–10–1	8–5
Boston	6–7	—	8–4	6–6	1–11	12–1	3–9	7–5	6–6	7–6	8–5	7–6	6–6	8–5
California	6–6	4–8	—	6–6	4–9	6–6	4–8	7–5	4–8	7–6	6–7	5–8	4–9	7–5
Chicago	8–4	6–6	6–6	—	5–8	10–3	7–6	6–7	6–7	6–7	5–7	5–7	8–4	7–5
Cleveland	7–5	11–1	9–4	8–5	—	12–0	7–6	7–6	10–3	3–9	6–6	8–4	4–8	7–5
Detroit	2–11	1–12	6–6	3–10	0–12	—	6–6	4–8	6–6	5–8	4–8	6–6	4–9	6–7
Kansas City	3–9	9–3	8–4	6–7	6–7	6–6	—	4–9	6–7	4–8	5–7	7–5	6–6	5–8
Milwaukee	3–9	5–7	5–7	7–6	6–7	8–4	9–4	—	9–4	6–6	7–5	4–9	6–7	5–7
Minnesota	5–7	6–6	8–4	7–6	3–10	6–6	7–6	4–9	—	5–7	6–7	6–6	7–5	8–5
New York	10–3	6–7	6–7	7–6	9–3	8–5	8–4	6–6	7–5	—	9–3	3–9	5–7	8–5
Oakland	4–9	5–8	7–6	7–5	6–6	8–4	7–5	5–7	7–6	3–9	—	8–5	7–6	4–8
Seattle	5–7	6–7	8–5	7–5	4–8	6–6	5–7	9–4	6–6	9–3	5–8	—	10–3	5–7
Texas	10–3–1	6–6	9–4	4–8	8–4	9–4	6–6	7–6	5–7	7–5	6–7	3–10	—	10–2
Toronto	5–8	5–8	5–7	5–7	5–7	7–6	8–5	7–5	5–8	5–8	8–4	7–5	2–10	—

Game log

1996 Game Log: 70–91 (Home: 43–38; Away: 27–53)

April: 13–12 (Home: 9–2; Away: 4–10)

May: 13–14 (Home: 9–8; Away: 4–6)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
26	May 1	@ Athletics	6–4	Boskie (2–0)	Van Poppel	Percival (9)	6,721	14–12
27	May 2	@ Athletics	3–1	Abbott (1–4)	Johns	Percival (10)	9,102	15–12
28	May 3	Twins	4–1	Finley (4–2)	Robertson	Percival (11)	24,505	16–12
29	May 4	Twins	5–2	Grimsley (2–1)	Rodriguez	—	29,264	17–12
30	May 5	Twins	5–1	Boskie (3–0)	Hawkins	—	35,541	18–12
31	May 6	Royals	4–9	Belcher	Leftwich (0–1)	Pichardo	14,447	18–13
32	May 7	Royals	3–5	Valera	Abbott (1–5)	Montgomery	14,657	18–14
33	May 8	Royals	1–3 (14)	Pichardo	Eichhorn (1–2)	—	16,210	18–15
34	May 9	Royals	2–8	Gubicza	Grimsley (2–2)	—	15,302	18–16
35	May 10	Indians	13–8	Boskie (4–0)	Lopez	—	23,522	19–16
36	May 11	Indians	5–6	McDowell	Sanderson (0–2)	Mesa	32,102	19–17
37	May 12	Indians	1–4	Poole	Percival (0–1)	Mesa	22,768	19–18
38	May 14	@ Red Sox	3–4 (12)	Belinda	Boskie (4–1)	—	22,450	19–19
39	May 15	@ Red Sox	6–17	Moyer	Grimsley (2–3)	—	23,455	19–20
40	May 17	@ Yankees	5–8	Pettitte	Abbott (1–6)	Rivera	19,087	19–21
41	May 18	@ Yankees	3–7	Rogers	Williams (0–1)	Rivera	22,821	19–22
42	May 19	@ Yankees	10–1	Finley (5–2)	Kamieniecki	—	37,326	20–22
43	May 20	@ Orioles	1–13	Wells	Grimsley (2–4)	—	43,492	20–23
44	May 21	@ Orioles	5–2	Boskie (5–1)	Krivda	Percival (12)	39,974	21–23
45	May 22	@ Orioles	5–10	Haynes	Abbott (1–7)	McDowell	45,817	21–24
46	May 24	Red Sox	3–1	Finley (6–2)	Sele	Percival (13)	19,550	22–24
47	May 25	Red Sox	3–10	Gordon	Williams (0–2)	—	23,972	22–25
48	May 26	Red Sox	12–2	Boskie (6–1)	Eshelman	—	23,828	23–25
49	May 27	Yankees	5–16	Pettitte	Abbott (1–8)	—	20,926	23–26
50	May 28	Yankees	1–0	Grimsley (3–4)	Rogers	—	17,284	24–26
51	May 29	Yankees	4–0	Finley (7–2)	Mendoza	—	19,246	25–26
52	May 31	Orioles	10–3	Langston (3–1)	Wells	—	21,603	26–26

June: 15–14 (Home: 8–5; Away: 7–9)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
53	June 1	Orioles	8–3	Boskie (7–1)	Haynes	—	35,350	27–26
54	June 2	Orioles	1–14	Erickson	Abbott (1–9)	—	33,704	27–27
55	June 3	@ Twins	3–9	Trombley	Finley (7–3)	—	10,589	27–28
56	June 4	@ Twins	3–5	Rodriguez	Grimsley (3–5)	Guardado	10,899	27–29
57	June 5	@ Twins	3–14	Aldred	Langston (3–2)	Hansell	10,639	27–30
58	June 7	@ Indians	3–4	McDowell	Boskie (7–2)	Mesa	42,260	27–31
59	June 8	@ Indians	0–5	Hershiser	Finley (7–4)	—	42,267	27–32
60	June 9	@ Indians	8–6 (13)	Hancock (1–0)	Tavarez	—	42,237	28–32
61	June 10	@ Royals	7–5 (10)	McElroy (1–0)	Pugh	Percival (14)	15,691	29–32
62	June 11	@ Royals	11–9	McElroy (2–0)	Valera	Percival (15)	16,687	30–32
63	June 12	@ Royals	4–3 (10)	McElroy (3–0)	Montgomery	Percival (16)	15,428	31–32
64	June 13	Blue Jays	6–4	Finley (8–4)	Guzman	James (1)	20,528	32–32
65	June 14	Blue Jays	7–4	Grimsley (4–5)	Hanson	Percival (17)	18,503	33–32
66	June 15	Blue Jays	7–5	Langston (4–2)	Crabtree	Percival (18)	40,352	34–32
67	June 16	Blue Jays	4–6	Quantrill	Abbott (1–10)	Timlin	22,979	34–33
68	June 17	White Sox	9–8 (13)	Hancock (2–0)	McCaskill	—	17,836	35–33
69	June 18	White Sox	5–4	Finley (9–4)	Simas	Percival (19)	19,213	36–33
70	June 19	White Sox	14–2	McElroy (4–0)	Alvarez	—	22,960	37–33
71	June 20	@ Brewers	10–3	Langston (5–2)	Givens	—	16,034	38–33
72	June 21	@ Brewers	5–10	McDonald	Abbott (1–11)	—	16,274	38–34
73	June 22	@ Brewers	6–4	Boskie (8–2)	Miranda	Percival (20)	35,464	39–34
74	June 23	@ Brewers	4–8	Garcia	Finley (9–5)	—	17,051	39–35
75	June 24	@ White Sox	2–4	Alvarez	James (4–3)	Hernandez	—	39–36
76	June 24	@ White Sox	6–4	Hancock (3–0)	Sirotka	Percival (21)	24,469	40–36
77	June 25	@ White Sox	2–3	Tapani	Langston (5–3)	Hernandez	23,270	40–37
78	June 27	Athletics	2–18	Johns	Boskie (8–3)	—	23,503	40–38
79	June 28	Athletics	3–6	Chouinard	Finley (9–6)	—	32,380	40–39
80	June 29	Athletics	9–11	Groom	Monteleone (0–1)	—	26,565	40–40
81	June 30	Athletics	1–0	Hancock (4–0)	Wasdin	Percival (22)	19,284	41–40

July: 10–16 (Home: 7–6; Away: 3–10)

August: 11–18 (Home: 4–11; Away: 7–7)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
108	August 1	@ Tigers	5–13	Williams	Boskie (10–5)	—	14,591	51–57
109	August 2	@ Blue Jays	2–9	Hentgen	Finley (11–9)	—	30,261	51–58
110	August 3	@ Blue Jays	11–6	Langston (6–4)	Castillo	—	32,139	52–58
111	August 4	@ Blue Jays	1–7	Flener	Abbott (1–14)	—	30,253	52–59
112	August 6	Twins	1–4	Radke	Springer (1–1)	Guardado	20,058	52–60
113	August 7	Twins	0–4	Robertson	Finley (11–10)	—	18,611	52–61
114	August 8	Twins	5–13	Aguilera	Boskie (10–6)	—	21,283	52–62
115	August 9	Royals	3–5	Rosado	Langston (6–5)	Montgomery	35,977	52–63
116	August 10	Royals	3–18	Haney	Abbott (1–15)	—	21,657	52–64
117	August 11	Royals	6–5	Springer (2–1)	Belcher	—	18,591	53–64
118	August 12	Indians	4–5	Hershiser	Finley (11–11)	Mesa	19,499	53–65
119	August 13	Indians	4–2	Boskie (11–6)	Ogea	Percival (28)	19,569	54–65
120	August 14	Indians	8–7	Gohr (1–0)	McDowell	Percival (29)	23,887	55–65
121	August 16	@ Red Sox	6–3	Springer (3–1)	Wakefield	Percival (30)	30,693	56–65
122	August 17	@ Red Sox	0–6	Clemens	Finley (11–12)	—	32,497	56–66
123	August 18	@ Red Sox	4–3	Holtz (2–2)	Brandenburg	Percival (31)	25,224	57–66
124	August 19	@ Red Sox	9–10	Lacy	Gohr (1–1)	Slocumb	25,779	57–67
125	August 20	@ Yankees	6–17	Boehringer	Springer (3–2)	—	20,795	57–68
126	August 21	@ Yankees	7–1	Dickson (1–0)	Key	Percival (32)	27,811	58–68
127	August 22	@ Yankees	12–3	Finley (12–12)	Rogers	—	27,191	59–68
128	August 23	@ Orioles	2–0	Boskie (12–6)	Wells	Percival (33)	47,291	60–68
129	August 24	@ Orioles	4–5	Mussina	Abbott (1–16)	Myers	46,487	60–69
130	August 25	@ Orioles	13–0	Springer (4–2)	Erickson	—	47,239	61–69
131	August 26	Red Sox	1–4	Wakefield	Dickson (1–1)	—	16,886	61–70
132	August 27	Red Sox	1–2	Clemens	Finley (12–13)	Slocumb	19,947	61–71
133	August 28	Red Sox	4–7	Gordon	Boskie (12–7)	—	20,894	61–72
134	August 29	Yankees	14–3	Holtz (3–2)	Whitehurst	—	19,755	62–72
135	August 30	Yankees	2–6	Pettitte	Springer (4–3)	—	27,084	62–73
136	August 31	Yankees	3–14	Key	Dickson (1–2)	—	28,749	62–74

September: 8–17 (Home: 6–6; Away: 2–11)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
137	September 1	Yankees	4–0	Finley (13–13)	Rogers	—	19,384	63–74
138	September 2	Orioles	8–12	Mussina	Boskie (12–8)	—	20,287	63–75
139	September 3	Orioles	10–2	Harris (1–0)	Coppinger	—	15,924	64–75
140	September 4	Orioles	2–4	Erickson	Springer (4–4)	Myers	18,204	64–76
141	September 6	@ Twins	2–6	Radke	Finley (13–14)	—	13,006	64–77
142	September 7	@ Twins	3–6	Stevens	Boskie (12–9)	Trombley	51,011	64–78
143	September 8	@ Twins	4–2	Abbott (2–16)	Rodriguez	Percival (34)	14,378	65–78
144	September 9	@ Indians	3–4	Shuey	Holtz (3–3)	Mesa	42,208	65–79
145	September 10	@ Indians	5–7	Assenmacher	Percival (0–2)	—	42,181	65–80
146	September 11	@ Indians	0–2	McDowell	Finley (13–15)	Mesa	42,264	65–81
147	September 12	@ Indians	2–11	Anderson	Boskie (12–10)	—	42,244	65–82
148	September 13	@ Royals	2–8	Belcher	Abbott (2–17)	—	13,083	65–83
149	September 14	@ Royals	5–8	Appier	Dickson (1–3)	—	17,174	65–84
150	September 17	Athletics	1–5	Prieto	Springer (4–5)	—	17,827	65–85
151	September 18	Athletics	3–1	Finley (14–15)	Adams	Percival (35)	18,213	66–85
152	September 20	Rangers	6–5 (10)	McElroy (5–1)	Stanton	—	18,860	67–85
153	September 21	Rangers	1–7	Burkett	Abbott (2–18)	—	24,104	67–86
154	September 22	Rangers	1–4	Hill	Dickson (1–4)	—	17,522	67–87
155	September 23	Mariners	4–3	Finley (15–15)	Hitchcock	Percival (36)	16,212	68–87
156	September 24	Mariners	11–6	Springer (5–5)	Wells	—	18,891	69–87
157	September 25	Mariners	2–11	Torres	Boskie (12–11)	—	17,160	69–88
158	September 26	@ Rangers	5–6	Burkett	Abbott (2–19)	Henneman	33,895	69–89
159	September 27	@ Rangers	4–3 (15)	Harris (2–0)	Whiteside	Gohr (1)	46,764	70–89
160	September 28	@ Rangers	3–4	Oliver	Finley (15–16)	Heredia	45,651	70–90
161	September 29	@ Rangers	3–4	Witt	Springer (5–6)	—	45,434	70–91

Legend: = Win = Loss
Bold = Angels team member

Detailed records

American League
Opponent	W	L	WP	RS	RA
AL East
Baltimore Orioles	6	6	0.500	69	68
Boston Red Sox	4	8	0.333	52	69
Detroit Tigers	6	6	0.500	55	75
New York Yankees	7	6	0.538	76	76
Toronto Blue Jays	7	5	0.583	58	61
Total	30	31	0.492	310	349
AL Central
Chicago White Sox	6	6	0.500	60	60
Cleveland Indians	4	9	0.308	56	71
Kansas City Royals	4	8	0.333	51	86
Milwaukee Brewers	7	5	0.583	67	64
Minnesota Twins	4	8	0.333	38	67
Total	25	36	0.410	272	348
AL West
California Angels
Oakland Athletics	6	7	0.462	64	83
Seattle Mariners	5	8	0.385	65	89
Texas Rangers	4	9	0.308	51	74
Total	15	24	0.385	180	246
Season Total	70	91	0.435	762	943

Month	Games	Won	Lost	Win %	RS	RA
April	25	13	12	0.520	115	132
May	27	13	14	0.481	128	146
June	29	15	14	0.517	153	181
July	26	10	16	0.385	131	171
August	29	11	18	0.379	141	182
September	25	8	17	0.320	94	131
Total	161	70	91	0.435	762	943

Total	161	70	91	0.435	762	943
	Games	Won	Lost	Win %	RS	RA
Home	81	43	38	0.531	387	451
Away	80	27	53	0.338	375	492

Notable transactions

May 16, 1996: Scott Sanderson was released by the California Angels.^[4]
May 27, 1996: Lee Smith was traded by the California Angels to the Cincinnati Reds for Chuck McElroy.^[9]
June 30, 1996: Vince Coleman signed as a Free Agent with the California Angels.^[10]

September 6, 1996: Robert Eenhoorn was selected off waivers by the California Angels from the New York Yankees.^[11]

Roster

1996 California Angels

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

44 Chili Davis

Manager

Coaches

57 Mick Billmeyer (Bullpen)
39 Rick Burleson (Third Base)
29 Rod Carew (Hitting)
55 Chuck Hernandez (Pitching)
2 Bobby Knoop (Bench)
38 Bill Lachemann (Assistant)
70 Joe Maddon (First Base)

Player stats

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

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO

Other pitchers

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO

Relief pitchers

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Vancouver Canadians	Pacific Coast League	Don Long
AA	Midland Angels	Texas League	Mario Mendoza
A	Lake Elsinore Storm	California League	Mitch Seoane
A	Cedar Rapids Kernels	Midwest League	Tom Lawless
A-Short Season	Boise Hawks	Northwest League	Tom Kotchman
Rookie	AZL Angels	Arizona League	Bruce Hines

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Lake Elsinore^[12]

References

^ "1996 MLB Standard Pitching". Baseball Reference. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/v/velarra01.shtml
^ Mike Aldrete Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
^ ^a ^b Scott Sanderson Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/f/frohwto01.shtml
^ Jim Abbott Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
^ "Mark Eichhorn: Career Statistics". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jordari02.shtml
^ Lee Smith Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
^ Vince Coleman Statistics Baseball-Reference.com
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/e/eenhoro01.shtml
^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997

1996 California Angels at Baseball Reference
1996 California Angels at Baseball Almanac

Preceded by 1995	California Angels seasons 1996	Succeeded by 1997

[1] "1996 MLB Standard Pitching". Baseball Reference. Retrieved July 8, 2018.

[2] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/v/velarra01.shtml

[3] Mike Aldrete Statistics Baseball-Reference.com

[autogenerated1-4] Scott Sanderson Statistics Baseball-Reference.com

[5] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/f/frohwto01.shtml

[6] Jim Abbott Statistics Baseball-Reference.com

[7] "Mark Eichhorn: Career Statistics". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 16, 2018.

[8] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jordari02.shtml

[9] Lee Smith Statistics Baseball-Reference.com

[10] Vince Coleman Statistics Baseball-Reference.com

[11] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/e/eenhoro01.shtml

[12] Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997

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