Your top "forgot he was a Red Sox"

Cesar Crespo

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Good one, I had indeed totally forgotten we had that guy. 2002 is a gold mine for this category. Benny Agbayani!
Carl Everett is impossible to forget so by extension so is Darren Oliver. I remember Gammons trying to spin the trade to make it even worse than it was... by saying the Sox were paying all of Carl's contract and taking on Darren Oliver's contract. Gammons hated DD so much.
 

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This is a funny thread, cuz if you remember the guy was a Red Sock, he can’t really make your list! But one guy who frequently slips my mind is the Hit Man, Mike Easler.
A glass half empty guy would say that the Sox made a dumb deal giving up John Tudor (who had some great seasons a year or two later) for a DH.
A glass half full guy would say that Easler brought them Don Baylor, a key man in 1986.
 

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Cesar Crespo

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who pissed and moaned about playing time while he was here, finally got released and picked up by the Angels....and lasted all of two games there.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marshmi02.shtml

You'll notice his season w/the Sox/Angels, he came up to the plate 69 times, no walks, no hbp, no sacs. Exactly the same ba and obp....how many times does that happen with that many at bats?
I think Craig Robinson holds the record with most PA in a season without either. Maybe it's been surpassed. He had 2 SF in 148 PA but that doesn't affect batting average or OBP at all. Sac bunts can actually make your OBP lower than your batting average.
 

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Shane Rawley. Told me once at his restaurant that when he signed the contract (1990) he knew he'd never pitch again and just screwed the Sawx for the money.
 

Cesar Crespo

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Someone mentioned Lew Ford in the other thread.

Reminded me of the guy he was traded for. Hector Carrasco.
 

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Adam Stern, David Riske, Pete Schourek, Wes Chamberlain, Boof Bonser, Tony Womack, George Kottarras.
Also Adam Hyzdu. Does anyone remember the story with him? Baseball reference says Boston traded him to SD in March 2005, then traded for him in July of the same year.
 

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Damn you beat me to Adam Hyzdu by 5 minutes. I remember thinking Kason Gabbard had potential and then immediately wiping him from my memory.
 

Humphrey

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Tuffy Rhodes. 2-25, went to Japan and became a star.

And Dwayne Hosey, Todd Frowirth, Keith "Apache" Shepard. Calvin Fucking Pickering.

Boy, DD brought in a lot of stiffs, didn't he?
 

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Damn you beat me to Adam Hyzdu by 5 minutes. I remember thinking Kason Gabbard had potential and then immediately wiping him from my memory.
Didn’t Gabbard throw a CGSHO in 2007? And speaking of forgotten Sox, Devern Hansack.
 

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Adam Stern, David Riske, Pete Schourek, Wes Chamberlain, Boof Bonser, Tony Womack, George Kottarras.
Also Adam Hyzdu. Does anyone remember the story with him? Baseball reference says Boston traded him to SD in March 2005, then traded for him in July of the same year.
Shourek was an original here on SoSH. LJ fucking went insane when he pitched. If the wiki was still up Sure Wreck was one of the original nicknames
 

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What?
Didn’t Gabbard throw a CGSHO in 2007? And speaking of forgotten Sox, Devern Hansack.
How could anyone forget The Lobsterman, the pride of Pearl Lagoon? His not-a-no-hitter on the last day of the season was the only good thing that happened in 2006.

It’s a great list of random guys who won rings in 2004: Phil Seibel, Jamie Brown, Earl Snyder, Sandy Martinez, Jimmy Anderson…Jimmy Anderson?
 

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There really ought to be a Swan-Song Sox category.
Okay, I'm not sure if this is what was intended, but I've constructed the Swan Song Sox team. All of these players ended their MLB careers in a SINGLE year with Boston, after playing the rest of their careers with other teams. Hope I got it all right, but it worked surprisingly well. We could field a team! We could use some more pitching here, and honestly this team is pretty bad Edit: thanks to BornToRun, Rovin Romine and simplicio we have more pitching now, and John Marzano Olympic Hero helped me find a better double-play combination. The outfield could still use work but the team is getting better!

C: Javy Lopez
1B: John Olerud
2B: Brandon Phillips (thanks JMOH)
SS: Royce Clayton (thanks JMOH)
3B: Gary Gaetti
LF: Benny Agbayani
CF: Herm Winningham
RF: Scott Podsednik
DH: Jeremy Giambi

INF: Mark Lemke, Craig Grebeck, Sean Casey, Ryan Shealy, Sean Berry

SP: Tom Seaver, Mark Portugal, Ryan Dempster (thanks BornToRun), Aaron Cook (thanks simplicio)
RP: Matt Mantei, Bobby Jenks (thanks Rovin Romine), Joel Hanrahan (thanks Rovin Romine)

MGR: Bobby Valentine (thanks Rovin Romine)
 
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oumbi

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Matt Young. I was hopeful he would fulfill his potential. I watched him as a Mariner. Sigh.
 

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Joel Payamps?

I don’t think anyone’s said Brad Penny or Wade Miller so I’ll go with that combo platter. Boy was I psyched for Roberto Petagine.
 

Cesar Crespo

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Matt Young. I was hopeful he would fulfill his potential. I watched him as a Mariner. Sigh.
He threw a no hitter for the Redsox and lost the game doing so. That was game 1 of a double hitter where the Sox lost 2-1.

The 2nd game, Clemens pitched a 2 hit shutout.
 

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My memory of Nick Punto on a plane with some guys is burned in forever, but my memory of him actually playing baseball is shockingly void.
 

BornToRun

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How could anyone forget The Lobsterman, the pride of Pearl Lagoon? His not-a-no-hitter on the last day of the season was the only good thing that happened in 2006.

It’s a great list of random guys who won rings in 2004: Phil Seibel, Jamie Brown, Earl Snyder, Sandy Martinez, Jimmy Anderson…Jimmy Anderson?
I would wager that the best moment of ‘06 was Papi smoking that homer off of Cleveland to walk it off.
 

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Okay, I'm not sure if this is what was intended, but I've constructed the Swan Song Sox team. All of these players ended their MLB careers in a SINGLE year with Boston, after playing the rest of their careers with other teams. Hope I got it all right, but it worked surprisingly well. We could use some more starting pitching here, and honestly this team is pretty bad, but we could field a team!

C: Javy Lopez
1B: John Olerud
2B: Mark Lemke
SS: Craig Grebeck
3B: Gary Gaetti
LF: Benny Agbayani
CF: Herm Winningham
RF: Scott Podsednik
DH: Jeremy Giambi

INF: Sean Casey, Ryan Shealy, Sean Berry

SP: Tom Seaver, Mark Portugal
RP: Matt Mantei
Not that bad if we’re getting everyone in their prime. Maybe throw in Dempster on the back end.
 

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Reading this thread has knocked a few more names:

Scott Bankhead
Larry Parrish
Mike Stanley
Danny Heep