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[Infield Infidel]

Next up is right field, which should have some good competition. A minimum of 5 living right-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 Right 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.

[JMDurron]

Dwight Evans
Trot Nixon
Bernie Carbo
JD Drew
Tom Brunansky

Carbo was more of a RF and didn't crack the top 5 in LF, and Brunansky is my irrational vote based on the 5 HRs in 3 games against Toronto during the do-or-die next to last series of the season in 1990.

[Hendu's Gait]

Dewey
Trot
Bruno
Drew
Darren Bragg

[Lose Remerswaal]

Dwight Evans
Trot Nixon
JD Drew
Jimmy Piersall
Troy O'Leary


Of course the answer SHOULD be "Tony Conigliaro"

[bigyazbread]

Dwight Evans
Ken Harrelson
Trot Nixon
JD Drew
Bernie Carbo

[Al Zarilla]

Dwight Evans
Trot Nixon
JD Drew
Jimmy Piersall
Troy O'Leary

[fineyoungarm]

Dwight Evans
Trot Nixon
JD Drew
Jimmy Piersall
Troy O'Leary


Of course the answer SHOULD be "Tony Conigliaro"

The fatality rate for right fielders is especially high, it seems. Jackie Jensen was in his mid 50's when he passed away and the older old timers would give you an argument about him vs. Tony C. And, of course, the name on the lips of so many - the late Lou Clinton.

[Al Zarilla]

The fatality rate for right fielders is especially high, it seems. Jackie Jensen was in his mid 50's when he passed away and the older old timers would give you an argument about him vs. Tony C. And, of course, the name on the lips of so many - the late Lou Clinton.

Jensen was my favorite player as a kid, along with Ted, of course. I had a neighbor for a while who was at Cal when Jensen was there. She said the Coeds (is that a sexist term now?) went out of their way to go by his frat house to get a glimpse of him. Clinton was on the "tweener" teams (between Williams' retirement and the great awakening of 1967).

[fineyoungarm]

Jensen was my favorite player as a kid, along with Ted, of course. I had a neighbor for a while who was at Cal when Jensen was there. She said the Coeds (is that a sexist term now?) went out of their way to go by his frat house to get a glimpse of him. Clinton was on the "tweener" teams (between Williams' retirement and the great awakening of 1967).

As you know, Jensen ( consistently an all star) retired at a relatively early age, because he was deathly afraid of flying.

Clinton was awful, which is why we love him.

[Infield Infidel]

Any more nominations before this one goes up?

[MalzoneExpress]

Jose Milages (Guzman) Tartabull

His throw from right field in 1967 to nail Ken Berry at the plate and preserve a one-run victory was unbelievable, especially considering his otherwise noodle arm.