With the Red Sox in September, 1977 when he hit .362. Sox had drafted him in the first round in 1973. They sold high on him, promptly sending him off to Cleveland that winter in the Dennis Eckersley trade.
Greenwell set the league record for GWRBI in ‘88, which (it seems) will never be broken.2 other oddities:
His first and last name rhymed with Red Sox and he was also the first in AL to collect a GWRBI (game-winning RBI) - a stat which was official from only 1980 to 1988.
Came here for this. Was not disappointed.Dang . . .
Another promise unfulfilled.Dang . . .
My intuition tells me there will be more.Second person to die in that trade, Bo Diaz being the other.
Otherwise more popularly known as the Fred Kendall trade.It was prior to the Eck-trade.