Rk, H, BB, BA, SO, Year, Age, Tm, Lg, G, PA, AB, R, 2B, 3B, HR 6, RBI, IBB .... Rk, H, BB, BA, SO, Year, Age, Tm, Lg, G, PA, AB, R, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, IBB, HBP, SH, SF, GDP, SB, CS, OBP, SLG, OPS, Pos. 33, Manuel Lee, 104, 24 .234, 107 ......

Lee played short in 1991 because during the previous off-season the Jays had traded their steady 1990 shortstop, Tony Fernández, along with Fred McGriff to the Padres for Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter. Alomar filled the gaping 1990 offensive hole at second base (112 games of Manny Lee and 49 games of, yep, Nelson Liriano). Lee played short for the 1992 world champion Jays, but by 1993 Toronto had reacquired Fernández and Lee was playing (badly) in Texas.

One other interesting note. Lee's main back-up on the 1991 Blue Jays was René Gonzales, who had played in Baltimore in 1990 spelling Craig Worthington at third and the Ripken brothers at second and short. While scanning Retrosheet's team defensive stats, I noticed the 1990 error total of Orioles shortstops and thought I'd found a typo. Three errors all season long??!! But Retrosheet was correct. Cal Ripken made three errors in 161 games, and his back-ups didn't make any in the twenty-some-odd innings that they played. I'd never realized that Ripken had had such a great season in the field in 1990.

(Ozzie Guillén won the AL Gold Glove at short in 1990.)