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1997
highlights for 1997

1996
Set new career highs in average (.289), at-bats (471), hits (136), doubles (32) and RBIs (93) ... Has driven in 60 runs or more five straight seasons ... Matched his career high with 6 RBIs (off a pair of home runs -- one a grand slam), April 6 vs. Milwaukee's Steve Sparks ... Provided own fireworks by cracking the game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning July 4th at Texas ... Signed by the Seattle Mariners as a free agent on Jan. 3, 1996.

1995
Led the Indians in batting average with bases loaded (.364) ... Finished fourth in the AL in errors at first base and lowest fielding percentage at first base ... Collected career-high 25 home runs and 79 RBI's in 323 at bats and 104 games ... Drove in 79 RBI's in 76 hits ... Hit the first ever grand slam at Jacob's Field ... Recorded his first multi-home run game on May 21 at Fenway Park ... Drove in 60 or more runs in each of his last 4 seasons.

1994
Compiled a career-high 12-game hitting streak May 18-June 3 ... Hit .392 for month of July ... Made only four errors last season ... Had 18 RBI off left-handers after entering the season with only 17 RBI off southpaws for his entire career ... Hit .360 with runners in scoring position ... Hit only .229 in day games.

1993
Reached career-highs in games (148), at-bats (463), runs (75), doubles (26), RBI (65), walks (58), and strikeouts (121) ... His April 18 homer off Toronto's Al Leiter was only his second career homer off a lefthanded pitcher, and his first as a member of the Indians ... Hit three of his eighteen homers off Texas' Kevin Brown, two of them coming May 24 ... Hit his first grand slam June 25 off Kansas City's Tom Gordon, matching a career high with four RBI ... Put together a career-high 10 game hitting streak April 8-18, batting .364 (16-44) with 10 runs, four homers, and 11 RBI during the stretch ... Ranked third on the team in homers and RBI and was fourth in runs and doubles.

1992
Ranked third on the team in homers and RBI after being acquired from the Twins in exchange for two minor league players ... Hit 14 of his 18 homers as a first baseman, the most by a Cleveland player at that position since Boog Powell had 27 in 1975 ... Had the first hit and home run at Baltimore's Camden Yards, April 6 and 8, respectively ... Was 10th in the league with a .472 slugging percentage against right-handed pitchers ... Had the first multi-homer game of his career with two long balls May 17 against Minnesota's Kevin Tapani ... Hit two homers May 27 off Oakland's Dave Stewart ... Batted .520 (13-25) during a career-high nine game hitting streak June 28-July 9 ... Gave Cleveland a victory June 28 with his fourth career pinch-homer, off Toronto's Duane Ward ... Traded by Minnesota to Cleveland for Curtis Leskanic and Oscar Munoz March 28, 1992.

1991
Starred for Portland (AAA) and had two stints with Minnesota ... Had pinch-hit homers July 11 and Sept. 1 ... Pinch-hit in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series and made three pinch-hit appearances in the World Series.

1990
Hit his first major league homer June 24 off Kansas City's Storm Davis ... Hit Minnesota's only pinch-homer of the year, and the first of his career, Sept. 13 to beat Oakland in the 10th inning.

1989
Called up to Minnesota Sept. 8 and walked as a pinch-hitter that night against Kansas City ... Collected his first major league hit Sept. 12, a single off Toronto's Todd Stottlemyre ... Was named Twins' Minor League Player of the Year.


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