All-Time Red Sox Team

[seaphil]

Who would you pick for an all-time Red Sox team, by position?

Here's mine:

C- Carlton Fisk
1B- Jimmie Foxx
2B- Bobby Doerr
3B- Wade Boggs
SS- Joe Cronin
LF- Ted Williams
CF- Tris Speaker
RF- Dwight Evans
DH- Carl Yastrzemski
SP- Cy Young
Roger Clemens
Louis Tiant
Joe Wood
RP- Bob Stanley
MGR- Joe Cronin

Would player/mgr Cronin bench himself for Nomar??? Maybe in a few more years.

[yellowdog]

Even though he played left most of his career, I would move Jim Rice to rightfield and use Dewy Evans as a PH. That`s the only change I would make in your line-up.

[BC498]

Well I always considered Foxx one of the A's than a Red Sox. Personally I would put Yaz at first, and get rid of the DH... but let's not get into that. Just my two cents.

[seaphil]

I think of Foxx as a Philly A too, but when you look at his numbers in Boston, they're really impressive. I put his Sox seasons head to head against Mo Vaughn's and it was a dead heat.

[BC498]

I don't really have a major problem with Foxx on the list, just an aside if anything else.

[TheDarkDragon]

Looking up their numbers, I was amazed to see how close Vaughn and Foxx were as Red Sox. However, I would still give it to Foxx, as he typically walked 110+ times each year, while Vaughn struck out 150+ times.

[-Kyle-]

C- Carlton Fisk
CF- Tris Speaker

Wasn't the majority of their careers with another team?

Edit: Also probably make Williams the Dh and Yaz the LF

[soberdennis]

Wasn't the majority of their careers with another team?

Edit: Also probably make Williams the Dh and Yaz the LF

Actually Fisk and Speaker probably had their best years in Boston. If anyone should be taken off because they played their best years elsewhere it should be Cronin. But I am satisfied with keeping him on.
Maybe because I saw him play and I can't imagine anyone playing the wall like he did, I'd switch Yaz and Ted. Yaz was amazing in LF. Of course I would not want to take Ted's bat out of the lineup.
I know there was no DH in Ted's time. SO what.

[Erik Bedard]

Fisk was at his best in Boston, not Chicago, as with Speaker and Cleveland. My team:

C Fisk
1B Foxx
2B Doerr
3B Boggs
SS Cronin
LF Yastrzemski
CF Speaker
RF Williams
SP Young, Clemens, Jenkins, Tiant, Martinez
RP Lee

This is going on their entire careers, not just their time with Boston. All HoFers (or locks for the HoF) except Tiant and Lee.

[SoxSon]

Wasn't the majority of their careers with another team?

Edit: Also probably make Williams the Dh and Yaz the LF

Wow, Kyle, you've really been digging through some old threads, huh?

[PhilWings24]

Who would you pick for an all-time Red Sox team, by position?

Here's mine:

C- Carlton Fisk
1B- Jimmie Foxx
2B- Bobby Doerr
3B- Wade Boggs
SS- Joe Cronin
LF- Ted Williams
CF- Tris Speaker
RF- Dwight Evans
DH- Carl Yastrzemski
SP- Cy Young
Roger Clemens
Louis Tiant
Joe Wood
RP- Bob Stanley
MGR- Joe Cronin

Would player/mgr Cronin bench himself for Nomar??? Maybe in a few more years.

i'm not as well learned in sox history as i'd like to be...but i personally would put Pedro Martinez ahead of Roger Clemens. and i'd put yaz in left, williams at DH

[-Kyle-]

Wow, Kyle, you've really been digging through some old threads, huh?

This one is pretty interesting, as I have seen more "who's better?" than teams.

[EvanAparra]

Yeah i would definately put pedro in there.

I dont know much about Cronin, was he better than Nomar in both their primes?

[Mike D.]

Always a tough list, because three of the Sox all-time greats all played LF (Williams, Yaz, Rice). :noidea

[ThanksTheo]

My picks, mostly in alignment with others:

C- Carlton Fisk
1B- Jimmie Foxx
2B- Bobby Doerr
3B- Wade Boggs
SS- Nomar
LF- Yaz (* if we're using a DH)
CF- Tris Speaker or Dom
RF- Dwight Evans
DH- Ted (* if we're using a DH)
SP- Cy Young
Roger Clemens
Louis Tiant
Pedro Martinez
Joe Wood
RP- Bob Stanley
MGR- I'll go with Cronin

* If no DH, I have to put Ted in LF, and I would have no option but to unload Yaz, because I refuse to unload double-X. Yaz was awesome in LF, but I need the bats of both Williams and Foxx. Truly sorry, Cahl, much as I love ya'.