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[Infield Infidel]

Shortstop.

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Edited by Infield Infidel, 14 June 2012 - 12:50 AM.

[fineyoungarm]

Rico Petrocelli ends up playing out of position. But we've seen quite a bit of that this season.

[JMDurron]

Rico Petrocelli ends up playing out of position. But we've seen quite a bit of that this season.

Petrocelli played 774 career games at SS, and 727 career games at 3B. It's basically a coin flip, and not anywhere close to the travesty of Yaz at 1B.

Although, SS is such a horribly weak field that it might be handy to have saved him for this position, but oh well.

[Al Zarilla]

Petrocelli played 774 career games at SS, and 727 career games at 3B. It's basically a coin flip, and not anywhere close to the travesty of Yaz at 1B.

Although, SS is such a horribly weak field that it might be handy to have saved him for this position, but oh well.

Rico came up as a SS, was the SS in 1967. I'll always think of him as a SS.

[Savin Hillbilly]

This is pretty easy:

1. Nomar
2. Valentin
3. Pesky
4. Burleson
5. Bressoud

You could flip Valentin and Pesky if you want--I think Valentin was a shade better, but then I never saw Pesky play. Burleson is possibly the most overrated player in Sox history, but still obviously no worse than 4th in this group. Bressoud was not the best player of the rest, but arguably had the best Sox stint.

[fineyoungarm]

Petrocelli played 774 career games at SS, and 727 career games at 3B. It's basically a coin flip, and not anywhere close to the travesty of Yaz at 1B.

Although, SS is such a horribly weak field that it might be handy to have saved him for this position, but oh well.

Ture enough (especially the Yaz point) - but in the hearts of most of the old guys here, I bet Rico is thought of first as a SS. As AZ notes, he came up in that position, played it in 1967 (including making the final out of the season) and, while he played some terrific 3rd base, had his best all around year (I think) in 1969, when he led the AL at SS in fielding percentage (at least I think he did) and hit 40 HRs (that one I know).

Having written that, somehow we shall carry on.

[fineyoungarm]

Rico came up as a SS, was the SS in 1967. I'll always think of him as a SS.

The man on the right is he of the "fine young arm" according to WHDH color man extraordinaire, Johnny Pesky. Note the eerie resemblence to my avatar.

[Al Zarilla]

The man on the right is he of the "fine young arm" according to WHDH color man extraordinaire, Johnny Pesky. Note the eerie resemblence to my avatar.

Stephenson's your guy then, huh?

[fineyoungarm]

Stephenson's your guy then, huh?

Yep. For the most part he was memorably awful.

[TheYaz67]

Poor Yugo - I guess EV hasn't voted yet....

[fineyoungarm]

Poor Yugo - I guess EV hasn't voted yet....

Maybe he'll feel better after he checks his savings account. I certainly hope so.

[Infield Infidel]

voting closed

Nomar Garciaparra 82 votes
Johnny Pesky 72
John Valentin 68
Rick Burleson 58
Luis Aparicio 35
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Orlando Cabrera 29

[Hendu's Gait]

This team has a fatal flaw at the shortstop position.