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1995 Los Angeles Dodgers season

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Owner(s)
  
Peter O'Malley

Manager(s)
  
Tommy Lasorda

General manager(s)
  
Fred Claire

Local television
  
KTLA (5)

Local radio
  
KABC Vin Scully, Ross Porter, Rick Monday KWKW Jaime Jarrín, René Cárdenas

The 1995 season was notable for the American baseball debut of Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo. In his first season with the Dodgers after an accomplished career in the Japanese leagues, Nomo went 13-6 with an 2.54 ERA and a league leading 236 strikeouts. He was the starting pitcher in the All-Star game and won the Rookie of the Year award.

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The Dodgers won the National League's Western Division title, but lost to the Cincinnati Reds in the NLDS.

Notable transactions

  • April 26, 1995: Casey Candaele was released by the Dodgers.
  • May 23, 1995: Acquired Joey Eischen and Roberto Kelly from the Montreal Expos for Henry Rodríguez and Jeff Treadway
  • June 9, 1995: Acquired Kris Foster from the Montreal Expos for Rafael Bournigal
  • June 19, 1995: Acquired Willie Banks from the Chicago Cubs for Dax Winslett
  • July 31, 1995: Acquired Mark Guthrie and Kevin Tapani from the Minnesota Twins for Greg Hansell, José Parra and Ron Coomer
  • August 18, 1995: Acquired Brett Butler from the New York Mets for Scott Hunter and Dwight Maness
  • Starting Pitchers stats

    || 30|| 30 ||190.3 ||7-14 ||3.50 ||58 ||141 ||1 |- | Ramón Martínez || 30||30 ||206.3 ||17-7 ||3.66 ||81 ||138 || 4 |- | Hideo Nomo || 28 ||28 || 191.3 || 13-6 ||2.54 ||78 ||236 ||4 |- | Ismael Valdez ||33 ||27 ||197.7 ||13-11 ||3.05 ||51 ||150 || 6 |- | Kevin Tapani ||13 || 11 ||57.0 ||4-2 || 5.05 || 14 ||43 ||0 |- | Willie Banks ||6 || 6 ||29.0 ||0-2 ||4.03 ||16 ||23 ||0 |}

    1995 National League Division Series

    The division series was played between Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati ended up winning the series 3-0.

    Game 1, October 3

    Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

    Game 2, October 4

    Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

    Game 3, October 6

    Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati

    Farm system

    Teams in BOLD won League Championships

    Major League Baseball draft

    The Dodgers selected 85 players in this draft. Of those, six of them would eventually play Major League baseball.

    The first draft pick was left handed pitcher David Yocum out of Florida State University. After an impressive first season with the Vero Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League, Yocum experienced pain in his left shoulder, several surgeries failed to correct the problem and he was out of baseball after just two seasons and 15 games. He later became a firefighter.

    References

    1995 Los Angeles Dodgers season Wikipedia