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[Infield Infidel]

Which center fielders were must haves for Fenway 100? A minimum of 5 living left-fielders 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).

(If two players tie in the voting, the player with more nominations will be chosen.)

Nominations are accepted after this post until Wednesday evening, voting is Wednesday evening to Monday noonish. The top 5 in the voting for each position are in, and then the top overall vote-getters not previously selected will be added until we hit the total position player limit of 57. (there will also be 40 pitchers and 3 managers)

Nomination Criteria:
The mandatory criteria is that the person is alive, and played in 40 games at Center Field for the Red Sox, and hasn't already been selected for another position in the top 100.

You can use any other criteria you want.

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Fred Lynn
Ellis Burks
Johnny Damon
Jacoby Ellsbury

[Hendu's Gait]

Johnny Damon
Ellis Burks
Fred Lynn
Reggie Smith



Hendu

Edited by Hendu's Gait, 02 July 2012 - 02:50 PM.

[Lose Remerswaal]

Reggie Smith
Ellsbury
Damon
Fred Lynn
Coco Crisp

[Koufax]

I will second Coco Crisp. The catches that he made in his last year here were breathtaking.
Ellsbury
Damon
Lynn
Hendu

[MalzoneExpress]

Jim Piersall
Tony Armas
Rick Miller

Because somebody has to give these guys some love. But I refuse to nominate Jurassic Carl.

[Skiponzo]

Damon
Ells
Lynn
Miller
Burks

[aksoxfan]

Dom Dimaggio ?

[MalzoneExpress]

Dom Dimaggio ?

He passed away in 2009. RIP

[fineyoungarm]

^{Don Demeter - dammit}

[Dalton Jones]

It starts and ends with Fred Lynn. Jesus.
Then a fight between Piersall and Damon.

[Al Zarilla]

Jim Piersall
Fred Lynn
Ellis Burks
Johnny Damon
Jacoby Ellsbury

Piersall second to Lynn, but Ellsbury hopefully does something about that.

[fineyoungarm]

It starts and ends with Fred Lynn. Jesus.
Then a fight between Piersall and Damon.

A vote for Don Demeter is a vote for Billy Herman!

[JMDurron]

Reggie Smith is not getting nearly enough love here.

From 1966-1973 (67 bonus!), he put up a 281/354/471 line, for an OPS+ of 129. He also mashed 20+ HRs for 5 consecutive seasons back when that was actually impressive, from 69-73. He is 4th all time for the Red Sox in games started in CF, behind only Fred Lynn among the living. This isn't a Frank Malzone situation where a guy just played the position for a while with reputably good defense and mediocre offensive performance, this was a player putting up excellent numbers for his era while playing a premium defensive position AND actually playing on one of the franchise's iconic teams.

Fred Lynn
Reggie Smith
Johnny Damon
Ellis Burks

The first 4 are obvious, the last one is basically a personal preference pick.

Jacoby Ellsbury

[bosox79]

More names to fill out the ballot.
Darren Lewis
Damon Buford
Jurassic Carl
darren bragg
otis nixon

Edited by bosox79, 03 July 2012 - 06:21 PM.

[shepard50]

Fred Lynn
Johnny Damon
Coco Crisp
Ellis Burks
Jacoby Ellsbury

[fineyoungarm]

This is Demeter's to lose - a result with which he should be familiar.