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The Cleveland Indians finished in seventh place in the American League East. Sports Illustrated magazine predicted that the Indians would finish in first. Club president Peter Bavasi would resign before the regular season began. Bavasi had joined the Indians in November 1984. As president of the Cleveland Indians, he served on Major League Baseball's Executive Council.〔(Principals )〕 During the 1986 season, the team had an 84-78 record, its best since 1968, and attendance of 1.47 million, its highest since 1959.〔New York Times, January 24, 1987〕 There was a lot of optimism that the team would reach its full potential in 1987. Sluggers Joe Carter and Cory Snyder were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated on April 6, 1987, with the headline "Indian Uprising". The Indians were being predicted as the best team in baseball on the back of their two 30+ home run hitters. What sports writers overlooked was that Cleveland had the worst performing pitching staff in the majors, despite the presence of 300 game winners Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton, as well as Tom Candiotti (with Niekro and Candiotti, Cleveland had two starters whose main pitch was the Knuckleball). The 1987 Indians season would go on to be associated with the Sports Illustrated cover jinx. ==Offseason== * November 7, 1986: Fran Mullins was released by the Indians.〔(Fran Mullins page at Baseball Reference )〕 * November 28, 1986: Casey Parsons was signed as a free agent by the Indians.〔(Casey Parsons page at Baseball Reference )〕 * December 23, 1986: John Butcher was released by the Indians.〔(John Butcher page at Baseball Reference )〕 * January 19, 1987: Doug Frobel was signed as a Free Agent with the Cleveland Indians.〔http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/frobedo01.shtml〕 * February 23, 1987: Curt Wardle was traded by the Indians to the Oakland Athletics for Jeff Kaiser.〔(Jeff Kaiser page at Baseball Reference )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1987 Cleveland Indians season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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