Your top "forgot he was a Red Sox"

[Dick Drago]

Dick McAuliffe. Pretty good 2nd baseman, completely over the hill by the time he got to Boston. Typical of the pre-75 Sox, bringing in guys well past their prime—Marichal, Aparicio, Cepeda, Diego Segui to name a few.

McAuliffe I only remembered reading this thread-my 7 year old self dreaded his always weak at-bats.

 

[runnels3]

Actually at 37, Aparicio was still good enough to have management move Rico, who was in his prime as shortstop, over to 3B. Luis also made the all star team in 2 out of 3 years with the Sox.

 

[zenax]

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[Ale Xander]

Nick Green for me.

 

[ookami7m]

Nick Green for me.

So fun story. I am waiting outside Truist Field waiting for the gates to open for their game against the Padres and they announced that they would have "Braves Legends" there to sign autographs before the game. I look down at my phone to see who is there and it is Mark Wohlers and Nick Green. My first question was, "Is it the same Nick Green who was on the Sox?" Apparently 95 games your rookie year is enough to qualify as a Braves Legend, but we'll always have the Tek/Heidi/Nick Green love triangle.

 

[Sandwich Pick]

I think the 1993 season has a special place among mediocre Red Sox teams (at least for a lot of late Gen X, early Millennials like myself) since it was used for the players stats in Ken Griffey baseball on SNES. Though, I don’t know what Joe Hesketh did to be named after one of the worst TV characters (D.Chambers). And why A. Burr for Mo? At least they could have done S.Adams. Or anyone else not from NY.

I was obsessed with that game, and I strangely wondered the same thing about Mo Vaughn.