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Gary Gaetti
#6 | Designated Hitter | Boston Red Sox | Roster

Career Notes

1995
Belted a career-high 35 homers, the league's seventh best total and the second highest single season mark in club history, topped only by Steve Balboni's 1985 total of 36 ... Was seventh in the league in home run ratio, belting one round tripper every 14.7 at-bats ... Led the Royals in RBI 96, his highest total since driving in 109 runs in 1987 ... The 96 RBI was the most for a Royal since Danny Tartabull collected 100 RBI in the 1991 season ... Collected the 1,000th RBI of his career at Milwaukee on May 26 ... Shared the AL Player of the Week honors for May 29-June 4 with Boston's Tim Wakefield ... Hit .400 (10-for-25) with four homers, ten RBI, a .920 slugging percentage and a .423 on-base percentage during the week ... Led the club in homers both at home (16) and on the road (19) ... Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as a free agent on Dec. 18, 1995.

1994
His .287 average is his highest since batting .301 in 1988 while still with the Twins ... Led American League third basemen with a .982 fielding percentage ... Matched career-highs with two home runs and six RBI against Minnesota July 29 ... Participated in the seventh triple play of his career, May 14 against Oakland ... Hit .305 (29-95) with runners in scoring position ... Hit at least twelve home runs for the tenth consecutive year.

1993
Opened the season with California, struggling to a .180 (9-50) average before being released June 3 ... Signed by the Kansas City Royals as a free agent on June 19, 1993 ... Hit 14 homers and drove in 46 runs in only 281 at-bats for KC ... 33 of his 72 hits with the Royals went for extra bases ... Connected for his seventh career grand slam Sept. 5 off Roger Clemens, the first slam ever given up by the Boston ace ... The grand slam capped a four-game eight-RBI stretch ... Homered in the final two games of the season at Texas Oct. 2 and 3.

1992
Opened the season as California's regular third baseman, appearing in 67 games at the hot corner before being moved to first base July 18, where he saw action in 44 contests ... Led the Angels with 12 homers, the second-lowest season total of his career and the lowest team-leading total in the majors in `92.

1991
Batting average rose 17 points from 1990 (to .246), while his RBI total fell by 19 ... Played 152 games in his first season with California, the seventh year he had exceeded 150 ... Hit .275 with 12 home runs at Anaheim Stadium as opposed to only .219 with six long balls on the road, but still managed to drive in more runs away from home (35 road RBI, 31 home RBI) ... Batted .288 (38-132) with 50 RBI with runners in scoring position ... Victimized Seattle with four home runs, giving him a career total of 28 homers against the Mariners, his best performance against any franchise ... Scored the 20,000th run in Angels history via his three-run homer on the final day of the season against Kansas City.

1990
Led AL third basemen with 318 assists and 438 total chances ... His three mistake-free games to open the season extended his errorless streak to 51, erasing his own Twins record of 47 straight errorless games, set in 1987 ... Selected as the AL's Best Defensive Third Baseman by Baseball America ... Collaborated with Al Newman and Kent Hrbek on two triple plays in one game, July 17 at Boston, increasing his career triple play total to six ... Led Minnesota in RBI, games and at-bats ... 16 of his RBI were game-winners ... Tied his career high with six RBI in his 13th career two-homer game, May 2 at Detroit.

1989
Selected to the AL All-Star Team for the second straight season, won his fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award, and was named Best Defensive Third Baseman in the AL by Baseball America ... Only Brooks Robinson (16) and Buddy Bell (six) had won more Gold Glove awards at the hot corner ... Named AL Player of the Week June 12-18, when he hit .360 with four homers and 10 RBI ... Hit safely in six consecutive at-bats April 6-8 ... Ranked second among AL third basemen in fielding percentage, trailing only California's Jack Howell (.974 to .973).

1988
Made the AL All-Star Team for the first time and won his third consecutive Gold Glove Award ... Singled off New York's Tommy John for his 1,000th career hit Aug. 6 ... Reached the .300 mark for the first time in his professional career, finishing at .301 ... Led the league with a .606 slugging percentage on the road and finished third in the majors overall with a .551 percentage ... Spoiled the no-hit effort of Texas' Paul Kilgus May 21 with a double in the eighth inning ... Ranked third in the league with one home run for every 16.7 plate appearances and was sixth with a ratio of 5.3 at-bats per RBI.

1987
Won his second Gold Glove Award and led the World Champion Twins in RBI, doubles and game-winning RBI ... Enjoyed his second straight 30+ homer, 100+ RBI season and placed 10th in the AL MVP balloting ... Reached career highs in runs, doubles and RBI ... Set a club record for third basemen with 47 consecutive errorless games July 5-Aug. 25 ... 69 of his 150 hits went for extra bases ... Became the tenth player to homer in his first League Championship Series at-bat and the first ever to hit long balls in his first two post-season at-bats ... Won the Lee MacPhail Award as MVP of the ALCS, batting .300 (6-20) with two homers, five runs and five RBI against Detroit ... Homered off St. Louis' Danny Cox in Game 2 of the World Series, one of seven Series hits he contributed to the Twins' Championship effort.

1986
Led AL third basemen with 156 games, 334 assists, 473 total chances and 36 double plays ... Won the Charles O. Johnson Award as Minnesota's Most Improved Player after establishing career-bests with his .287 average, 91 runs, 171 hits, 34 doubles, 34 homers and 108 RBI ... Ranked among league leaders in homers (third), RBI (fifth), slugging percentage (fifth, .518), total bases (sixth, 309) and extra base-hits (sixth, 69) ... Had six RBI Sept. 23 against Kansas City, setting a personal career-high and a team season-high ... Among his 43 multiple-hit games were four four-hit contests and five two-homer contests.

1985
Pushed his consecutive games streak to 230 before missing Minnesota's June 23 contest ... Rediscovered his home run swing, improving his season total from five in 1984 to 20 ... Led the Twins with a .722 stolen base success rate, stealing 13 times in 18 attempts ... Played in 160 or more games for the second straight year.

1984
Became the first Twin since Roy Smalley in 1979 to play in all 162 games ... Missed only eight innings all year ... Led AL third basemen with 496 total chances, 142 putouts and 334 assists ... Put together a team-best 16-game hitting streak Aug. 5-19 ... Concentrated on lowering his strikeout total and was successful, going from 121 in 1983 to 81 in `84 ... Contact hitting experiment also affected his power, and he hit only five home runs after posting totals of 25 and 21 in his first two seasons.

1983
Tied Gary Ward for the team lead with 157 games played ... Put together an 18-game hitting streak May 6-27, the longest of his career ... Led Minnesota with eight sacrifice flies, including two July 26 against Milwaukee ... Struck out a career-high 121 times.

1982
Began a productive rookie season in interesting and explosive fashion ... Tripled in his first at-bat, against Seattle's Floyd Bannister April 6, but was thrown out at the plate on a close, controversial play; homered off Bannister in his next two at-bats and finished the game 4-for-4 to open the year ... Recorded 10 hits in his first 14 at-bats ... Led the AL and set a Minnesota record with 13 sacrifice flies, equalling Willie Montanez' 1971 major league rookie record ... Finished fifth in the AL Rookie of the Year voting ... Was the only Twin to hit two grand slams during the season, the first off Seattle's Bannister July 26 and the second off Mike Armstrong of Kansas City Sept. 19.

1981
Became the 47th player in major league history to homer in his first at-bat when he connected off Texas' Charlie Hough Sept. 20 ... Joined Kent Hrbek and Tim Laudner as one of three Twins players to homer in their first big league games in 1981.


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