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[Infield Infidel]

Like an Abbott and Costello joke, second is First Base. A minimum of 5 living first-basemen will be selected, and a maximum of 10.

More info on the methodology here

Baseball Reference positional history here

Nominations:
Nominations must be in bold. Each poster can list up to 5 players for nominations; up to 20 players, those with the most nominations, will be included for voting. (ties going over 20 nominations will not be include because polls can only list 20 answers).

Nominations are accepted after this post until Wednesday 5pm ET, voting is Wednesday 5pm ET to Monday 9am ET.

Nomination Criteria:
The mandatory criteria is that the person is alive, and played in 40 games at First Base for the Red Sox.
You can use any other criteria you want to define “greatness.”

I'm nominating
Mo Vaughn
Kevin Youkilis
George Scott
Kevin Millar

[Lose Remerswaal]

George Scott

Carl Yastrzemski

Mo Vaughn

Nick Esasky

Bill Buckner

[Skiponzo]

Cecil Cooper
Adrian Gonzalez

The others have already been nominated.

Edited by Skiponzo, 21 May 2012 - 08:51 AM.

[Soxfan in Fla]

Yaz
Vaughn
Youk
Millar
Scott

[Hendu's Gait]

Mo Vaughn
David Ortiz
Adrian Gonzalez
Kevin Millar
Carlos Quintana

Edited by Hendu's Gait, 21 May 2012 - 09:17 AM.

[Lefty on the Mound]

Carl Yastrzemski
Cecil Cooper
George Scott
Mo Vaughn

[brs3]

Mo Vaughn
Kevin Youkilis
Adrian Gonzalez
Brian Daubach
Bill Buckner

[Toe Nash]

Reggie Jefferson

[bankshot1]

George Scott
Yaz
Mo Vaughn
Dick Gernert
Cecil Cooper

[Infield Infidel]

Reggie Jefferson

oooh, 44 games at first base over 5 seasons, 119 OPS+

[Mugsys Jock]

George Scott
Carl Yastrzemski
Mo Vaughn
David Ortiz

Boomer was my first favorite player, Yaz was my longest-tenured favorite player, and Mo was a great guy to go to a strip club with.

As for Papi, he's played enough 1B for me!

[nolasoxfan]

Yaz
Scott
Vaughn
Buckner
Ortiz

[redsoxfan1776]

Adrian Gonzalez
David Ortiz
Kevin Millar
Mo Vaughn

[redsoxstiff]

JImmie Fox..."The Beast"

Harry Agganis..."The Golden Greek"

[Hendu's Gait]

JImmie Fox..."The Beast"

Harry Agganis..."The Golden Greek"

dead, for quite some time

[redsoxstiff]

I could argue weakly that dead is just a transition but the fact is I didn't read thr toepic ...

Moreover I am the kind of schmuck that could ignore the topic too...

[maufman]

Bill Buckner
Dick Gernert
Adrian Gonzalez
David Ortiz
George Scott
Mo Vaughn

Edit: Forgot to limit myself to five nominations.

Edited by maufman, 23 May 2012 - 08:31 PM.

[Lose Remerswaal]

Bill Buckner
Dick Gernert
Adrian Gonzalez
David Ortiz
George Scott
Mo Vaughn

"Each poster can list up to 5 players for nominations"

[Al Zarilla]

Good to see Gernert, a prototypical first baseman in the Yawkey years, is still with us. He pounded quite a few into or over the screen in his day. Someday, people will say "what screen?".

Dick Gernert

George Scott

Carl Yastrzemski

Mo Vaughn

Kevin Youkilis

Edited by Al Zarilla, 22 May 2012 - 03:04 PM.

[Doug Beerabelli]

All of the above, plus Nick Esasky

Edit: eyechart too

Edited by Doug Beerabelli, 22 May 2012 - 10:41 PM.

[Infield Infidel]

Nominations closed

[fineyoungarm]

Nominations closed

While that is the case, I continue to reflect on how wonderful it would have been to waive the "no stiffs" exclusion, so the late Dick Stuart could have been nominated.

[Lose Remerswaal]

While that is the case, I continue to reflect on how wonderful it would have been to waive the "no stiffs" exclusion, so the late Dick Stuart could have been nominated.

You can run a series of Greatest Deceased Red Sox players when II is done with this.

[fineyoungarm]

You can run a series of Greatest Deceased Red Sox players when II is done with this.

And, given that the Zombie Apocolypse is a near certainty, then Greatest Living Dead Red Sox players of all time.