How many players on this list w/ one career Red Sox home run do you remember? (since 1990)

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I wasn't aware of a few of these. Holy crap though, Billy Jo Robidoux is an all time funny baseball name. Arquimedez Pozo isn't bad either.
Alot of these guys have been screen names (or derivations thereof) over the years at SOSH.

Although I don't remember any screen names from Adam Hyzdu, which is a shame in the unlikely event my memory serves.
 

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I believe Mahay is on a very short list of players with one Sox career home run and one Sox career save. Pretty sure he is the only one.
Jesse Tannehill recorded both a save (1907) and hit a HR (1905) for the Red Sox. Kind of a cheap pull since the save statistic was invented well after Tannehill played and was credited retroactively.
 

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My god, Ivan Calderon was awful, burnt toast. Carlos Rodriguez was a switch non-hitter. He was so little I’m surprised he ever hit one.
The offensive ineptitude of those early 90s teams was something to behold. There was one year where they hit like 84 homers as a team. And another were Mo Vaughn had something like a quarter of their homers with 29 or so.
 

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The offensive ineptitude of those early 90s teams was something to behold. There was one year where they hit like 84 homers as a team. And another were Mo Vaughn had something like a quarter of their homers with 29 or so.
One year (1992) Brunansky lead the team with 15 home runs. Lou Gorman was fairly decent at the beginning of his career as the Sox GM but once the wheels came off, good lord …
 

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Sure the 92 Sox only hit 84 homers, but they did steal 44 bases (in 92 attempts). Jody Reed led the team with 7 steals. That team really wasted good seasons from Clemens and Viola. I hated Clemens as a kid because I blamed him for not winning the big game and while he turned out to be a total scumbag, it really wasn’t his fault.

(This years Sox only have 33 stolen bases, last in the league. Good chance no one on the team has double digits in steals. Funny how the stolen base is almost irrelevant in today’s game, unless Ottavino is pitching).
 

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Yaimaco Navarro was a prospect humper dark horse candidate to take over SS before Xander arrived.

Connor Jackson, Chris Owings, Pena, Kotchman, Brentz, Kotsay, Winningham, Brogna, and Lopez were first-round draft picks. Brentz was the only one drafted by the Red Sox.
 

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That Buckner dinger was an inside the park job. Against the Angels, Claudette Washington fell into the stands and Billy Buck motored around the infield.

I was aware of everyone on that list except for Carlos Rivero. Who the hell was he? And I completely forgot Juan Bell played for the Sox. At one time he was going to replace Ripken at SS for the Os.
Worth noting - that was also the 2nd time Claudell got hurt on a play in RF and was responsible for an inside the parker for the Sox.

In '79 at old Comiskey, Burleson hit a screaming line drive into the RCF gap, and Claudell dove for it, with the baseball ticking off his glove and hitting the ground below him. He then crashed down on top of the baseball - and it hit him right in the nuts. He remained motionless in RF with the ball underneath him, like he'd been shot, while Burleson rounded the bases (two guys had to help him get to the dugout, with him bent over and shuffling across the field like he was 100 yrs old - and since I was 15, I nearly died laughing).
 

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Sure the 92 Sox only hit 84 homers, but they did steal 44 bases (in 92 attempts). Jody Reed led the team with 7 steals. That team really wasted good seasons from Clemens and Viola. I hated Clemens as a kid because I blamed him for not winning the big game and while he turned out to be a total scumbag, it really wasn’t his fault.

(This years Sox only have 33 stolen bases, last in the league. Good chance no one on the team has double digits in steals. Funny how the stolen base is almost irrelevant in today’s game, unless Ottavino is pitching).
For whatever reason, offense around the league during the '92 season went into a sort of mini-Ice Age. 9 out of the 26 teams hit less than 100 homers, with a total of 3038 hit league wide. Between the '78 and '93 expansions the league averaged roughly 3500 a year not counting the shortened '81 season, with a huge outlier of 4458 in the juiced ball '87 season.
 

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Worth noting - that was also the 2nd time Claudell got hurt on a play in RF and was responsible for an inside the parker for the Sox.

In '79 at old Comiskey, Burleson hit a screaming line drive into the RCF gap, and Claudell dove for it, with the baseball ticking off his glove and hitting the ground below him. He then crashed down on top of the baseball - and it hit him right in the nuts. He remained motionless in RF with the ball underneath him, like he'd been shot, while Burleson rounded the bases (two guys had to help him get to the dugout, with him bent over and shuffling across the field like he was 100 yrs old - and since I was 15, I nearly died laughing).
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Hey, I played with Curtis Pride in high school! So that’s at least one guy I remember…
In 2008, Pride played his last organized baseball for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, for which hew mostly played DH but also played games at LF, CF, and 1B. But the Boston connections on the team were myriad: Damian Jackson, Hector Almonte, and John Halama were all on the roster with Pride; Pat Mahomes joined the team in September after Pride was released in September August; Butch Hobson was the manager; and the team's ace starter, Joe Gannon, was a knuckleball pitcher who learned the craft from being the bullpen catcher for the Buffalo Bisons in 1994, when Tim Wakefield was compiling a 5-15/5.84 record in AAA.
 
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Funny to see Dave Valle on there.

Friend of a friend pitched at BC in the early/mid 90s and he struck out Valle during the annual spring training game against the Sox in '94. I remember when he got traded to the Brewers in the Brunansky deal.
 

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Creighton Gubanich's one HR was a grand slam in a day game against Oakland. It has his first big league hit, too.
 

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Long time, first time. Great list, some hysterical names on there. I saw Damian Jackson name floated in the discussion. Is he best remembered for trying to decapitate Johnny Damon in Game 5 in Oakland, or am I confusing him with someone else? Those 6th inning defensive replacements, always seem to have a way of showing up!!!
 

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Long time, first time. Great list, some hysterical names on there. I saw Damian Jackson name floated in the discussion. Is he best remembered for trying to decapitate Johnny Damon in Game 5 in Oakland, or am I confusing him with someone else? Those 6th inning defensive replacements, always seem to have a way of showing up!!!
That's him. Took out Damon's 4th, 7th, and 9th favorite brain cells.
 

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Surprised no one has commented yet on Brandon Phillips. Number Zero's game winning HR in his debut was quite memorable in a wild game. I still remember him leaning backwards in a cool, weird way after he hit it:

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/video/phillips-9th-inning-go-ahead-hr-c2469964183

edit: man, oh man he CRUSHED that. Fun to watch it again.
I was there that day in Hot'lanta. Couldn't buy a hit off of Foltynewicz, and when he came out of the game, all hell broke loose...
 

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IIRC, wasn't he a replacement player during one of the strikes?
He was among the players who crossed the picket line to attend spring training in 1995. As a result, he never appeared by name in any licensed video games. I believe his video game moniker was Ron Mayday.
 

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He was among the players who crossed the picket line to attend spring training in 1995. As a result, he never appeared by name in any licensed video games. I believe his video game moniker was Ron Mayday.
Was Millar a replacement guy too? I can't recall if it was Millar or someone else on the 04 team who lost out on some money because their names and likenesses couldn't be on any World Series gear because they weren't allowed to join the Player's Union. And I'm pretty sure that the Sox union rep (it may have been Wakefield) wouldn't bend on this either. Which isn't shade at Wake, I can see both sides of this argument TBH.
 

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Was Millar a replacement guy too? I can't recall if it was Millar or someone else on the 04 team who lost out on some money because their names and likenesses couldn't be on any World Series gear because they weren't allowed to join the Player's Union. And I'm pretty sure that the Sox union rep (it may have been Wakefield) wouldn't bend on this either. Which isn't shade at Wake, I can see both sides of this argument TBH.
Yes, Millar was a scab too.

I seem to recall his lack of membership also meant that the MLBPA didn't really lift a finger during the whole traded to Japan but claimed by the Red Sox mini-controversy. You'd figure they'd typically want to weigh in on a first-of-its-kind issue involving a player.
 

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Yes, Millar was a scab too.

I seem to recall his lack of membership also meant that the MLBPA didn't really lift a finger during the whole traded to Japan but claimed by the Red Sox mini-controversy. You'd figure they'd typically want to weigh in on a first-of-its-kind issue involving a player.
It's a bit interesting that despite that history, Millar has still become one of the faces of the MLB Network.
 

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Was Millar a replacement guy too? I can't recall if it was Millar or someone else on the 04 team who lost out on some money because their names and likenesses couldn't be on any World Series gear because they weren't allowed to join the Player's Union. And I'm pretty sure that the Sox union rep (it may have been Wakefield) wouldn't bend on this either. Which isn't shade at Wake, I can see both sides of this argument TBH.
I think Damon was player rep from at least 2002 through at least 2004 (Globe articles from both years mention him as the then-current rep).
 

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It’s strange but when the football players in the NFL crossed the picket line they were vilified, spit on and verbally berated and threatened with physical harm by the striking players. I don’t remember any of that in MLB, with Millar being one of the most popular players on the team. I don’t recall any backlash against Mahay. Do I recall correctly that the MLB players replacements had fairly smooth sailing as compared to the NFL scans?
Also can MLB replacement players like Millar and Mahay collect MLB pensions and other retirement benefits?
 

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It’s strange but when the football players in the NFL crossed the picket line they were vilified, spit on and verbally berated and threatened with physical harm by the striking players. I don’t remember any of that in MLB, with Millar being one of the most popular players on the team. I don’t recall any backlash against Mahay. Do I recall correctly that the MLB players replacements had fairly smooth sailing as compared to the NFL scans?
Also can MLB replacement players like Millar and Mahay collect MLB pensions and other retirement benefits?
A big difference might be that the MLB players didn't physically picket. I believe the NFL players did.

The players that crossed in 1995 were allowed benefits like pensions, but weren't allowed official membership or likeness/name licensing money. See this article:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-08-24-0208240128-story.html
 

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It’s strange but when the football players in the NFL crossed the picket line they were vilified, spit on and verbally berated and threatened with physical harm by the striking players. I don’t remember any of that in MLB, with Millar being one of the most popular players on the team. I don’t recall any backlash against Mahay. Do I recall correctly that the MLB players replacements had fairly smooth sailing as compared to the NFL scans?
Also can MLB replacement players like Millar and Mahay collect MLB pensions and other retirement benefits?
The season of the replacement spring training, the replacement players got a lot of shit from Union guys like Tom Glavine. It wasn’t as bad as the NFL strike, probably because they didn’t play real games like the NFL scabs did, but there was a lot of hard feelings.

After a while the hard feelings mostly subsided, every once in awhile you’d hear a Union player say, “the owners put those guys in a bad position” or”I understand why they did what they did” but none of those replacement players were ever able to join the Union. And some of those guys had fairly long careers.

They were strike busters and all, but I sorta felt bad for them.
 

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Wow I think 8 of those guys ended up playing for the Sox.

Merloni
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Millar
Mandy Romero
Donnelly
McKeel
Agbayani
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I'd of bet the farm that Matt Stairs had more than 1 HR and more than 95 PA with the Sox. As it turns out, that was his first of 265 MLB homers. Also I thought there was was no FN way that Billy Buck hit just 1, but all of his others came BEFORE 1990.

Yes, the catch is the "post 1990" stipulation. A little cheap in the case of Buckner. Matt Stairs' HR was a big one, I think. I recall people saying, "who is Matt Stairs?"I wish we had held onto him.

Most of these players were not considered power hitters, so it is not surprising. Adam LaRoche and Ivan Calderon should have hit more. Wasn't LaRoche injured for much of that season?
 

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Yes, the catch is the "post 1990" stipulation. A little cheap in the case of Buckner. Matt Stairs' HR was a big one, I think. I recall people saying, "who is Matt Stairs?"I wish we had held onto him.

Most of these players were not considered power hitters, so it is not surprising. Adam LaRoche and Ivan Calderon should have hit more. Wasn't LaRoche injured for much of that season?
Nope, they acquired LaRoche and traded him like a week later, for Kotchman. Similar thing with Jose Cruz Jr years earlier, IIRC. Kind of odd, must be some story behind it.
 

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Nope, they acquired LaRoche and traded him like a week later, for Kotchman. Similar thing with Jose Cruz Jr years earlier, IIRC. Kind of odd, must be some story behind it.
I believe Cruz was a deadline acquisition in anticipation of trading Manny. That was the "Manny's back and he's back big" deadline. Then a few days after the deadline, Manny obviously didn't go anywhere and they had no need for him, so he was dumped.