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1996
Reached base safely in 78 of 100 games with the Cleveland Indians ... Picked up 1,000th career hit on Apr. 30 vs. Chicago ... Hit 100th career home run on June 15 vs. New York (AL) ... Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Alvaro Espinoza to the New York Mets for Jeff Kent and Jose Vizcaino on July 29 ... Limited to only 26 games with New York due to lower abdominal strain ... Hit pinch-hit single in first at-bat with Mets on July 30 ... Played his first career game at first base on Aug. 8 vs. Florida.

1995
Voted by fans to the All-Star Game for the first time (his third appearance overall) ... Went 3-for-3 with a double and hits from both sides of the plate in the game ... Finished ninth in the American League in batting average (.314), fifth in hits (175), fifth in multi-hit games (52), second in hardest batter to fan (one strikeout per 19.4 at bats; teammate Lance Johnson was the hardest with one in 20.8 at bats), seventh in batting average with runners in scoring position (.361) ... Led the league in batting average with two strikes (.332), outdistancing the runner-up by 45 points ... Sprained his left wrist in a collision with the Yankees' Bernie Williams on Sept. 12; missed five games between Sept. 13-17 as a result.

1994
Had a 15-game hitting streak from April 7-25 and a 16-game streak from July 1-19 ... Hit .345 vs. right-handers and only .261 vs. left-handers ... Led American League second basemen in total chances with 555 and was second in putouts and assists with 205 and 333, respectively ... Compiled a .973 fielding percentage ... Was not selected to the All-Star team after appearing the previous two seasons ... Made up for All-Star snub by hitting .346 with seven homers and 15 RBI in the next 20 games.

1993
Was named to his second straight AL All-Star team ... Also named to The Sporting News AL All-Star Team ... Placed 10th in AL MVP balloting ... Became the fourth Indian ever to be named to the Silver Slugger team, joining Albert Belle, Julio Franco and Andre Thornton ... Became the first player in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same inning on April 8, taking Steve Howe and Steve Farr of the Yankees deep in the seventh ... Named AL Player of the Week for April 5-11(.520, 13-25, 4 doubles) and July 19-25 (.581, 18-31, 10 RBI, sharing the honor with Seattle's Ken Griffey, Jr.) ... Put together a career-high 17-game hitting streak May 24-June 14, batting .394 (28-71) with four homers, 18 RBI, and 16 runs during the span ... Victimized Detroit's Mike Moore for the first three-homer game of his career on June 17 at Tiger Stadium ... Became only the second Tribe second baseman to have consecutive 20 homer seasons, following Joe Gordon (1947-49) ... Became the first AL second baseman to compile back-to-back 100 RBI seasons since Boston's Bobby Doerr did it from 1948 through 1950 ... Batted .340 (99-291) with runners on base, sixth-best in the league and went 5-8 with a triple and a homer with the bases loaded.

1992
Named Indians 'Man of the Year' for the second straight year by Cleveland sportswriters ... Won the Buck Canel Latin American Player of the Year award ... Finished second in the AL with 205 hits, becoming Cleveland's second 200-hit man since 1953 (Joe Carter, 1986) ... Ranked first in the league in singles (152), sixth in batting average, seventh in total bases (299) and 10th in RBI ... Made his first All-Star appearance and hit an RBI double off St. Louis' Bob Tewksbury ... Established single-season team records for homers and RBI by a switch hitter ... Did not play in Cleveland's Sept. 7 game, snapping a streak of 187 consecutive games played ... Collected six hits in a 19-inning contest against Boston on April 11 ... Went 5-9 with the bases loaded and hit .308 (56-182) with runners in scoring position ... Hit .353 at home ... Battered lefties at a .375 (63-168) clip, third-best in the AL ... Toured Japan with the Major League All-Star team after the season.

1991
Was named Indians 'Man of the Year' by local sportswriters and led the team in hits, runs and games, all at age 22 ... Began the season at third base before being moved to second on July 23 ... Cleveland turned 88 double plays in just 72 games after Baerga's insertion at second, compared with 62 double plays in the 90 previous games ... Had his first five-hit game on July 23 vs. Oakland ... Led the club with 48 multi-hit games ... Hit nine of his 11 homers on the road ... Batted .273 with nine homers and 49 RBI from the left side of the plate, and .329 with two homers and 20 RBI from the right ... Batted .500 (19-38) during a then-career-high 11-game hitting streak July 30-Aug. 10.

1990
Made his major league debut on April 14 and collected a single off Chicago's Wayne Edwards in his first at-bat ... Hit his first major-league homer on April 27 off Minnesota's Dave West ... Led the team with 11 pinch-hits ... Batted .313 after returning from a two-week stint at Colorado Springs (AAA) on Aug. 11 ... Hit. 364 in August.

1989
Traded by the San Diego Padres with Sandy Alomar, Jr. and Chris James to the Cleveland Indians for Joe Carter on Dec. 6, 1989.

1985
Signed by the San Diego Padres as a free agent to a minor-league contract on Nov. 4, 1985.


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