"A two-time All-Star, Greenwell finished fourth overall in voting for the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1987 before breaking out the following year. He took home a Silver Slugger Award in 1988 after batting .325 with 39 doubles, eight triples, 22 home runs, and 119 RBI. Those efforts led to him finishing runner-up in the voting for the AL MVP Award that season behind Oakland's Jose Canseco - with Canseco's admitted steroid use years later prompting Greenwell to campaign for the accolade."
"One of Greenwell's top highlights with Boston came on Sept. 2, 1996 - when Greenwell drove in all nine runs for the Red Sox in what was a 9-8 extra-innings victory over the Mariners at the Kingdome. That stands as an MLB record for most runs driven in by one player accounting for all of that team's runs in a single game."
Mike Greenwell spent his entire 12-season MLB career with the Boston Red Sox and is in the team's Hall of Fame. He died at 62 after battling medullary thyroid cancer and served as a Lee County, Florida commissioner at his death. Lee County officials called him a lifelong resident and advocate for local people and businesses. Greenwell announced in August 2025 that he had been diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer. Nicknamed "The Gator", he was a two-time All-Star, won a Silver Slugger in 1988 after batting .325 with 119 RBI, and finished runner-up in AL MVP voting. On Sept. 2, 1996, he drove in all nine Red Sox runs in a 9-8 extra-innings win, an MLB record.
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