Baseball Man Crushes - Who is yours?

[notin]

With every transaction this off-season, I keep expecting Bloom to DFA Ryan Weber. And every time, it has been someone else. Bloom just sees something in Weber I just don't see (and is more liekly to be right than me).

 

But, really, I can't rip him for that. There have been probably dozens of players I have seen something in that no one else has, and most of the time, probably for good reason. Chad Gaudin being the prime example. Gaudin was one guy whose peripherals just seemed to be so much better than his performance, and on that other website that mvp hates, I had players I would refer to as Chad Gaudin All Stars, which basically meant I was probably (likely) mentioning them as potentially good acquisitions for the Sox a lot more often than they actually deserved to be mentioned.

 

Some of the Chad Gaudin All Stars did actually pan out, including Cody Ross (for one year in Boston) and Miles Mikolas (but in St. Louis). Of course, the overwhelming majority were largely ignored by the baseball world for good reason.

 

There have been others for me, going as far back as Chico Walker (who barely ever got out of Pawtucket) and Michael Coleman (ditto, for for a variety of teams). And some, like Danny Salazar, actually might have panned out to the extreme levels I predicted (potential Cy Young candidate) but instead decided to put the whole concept to bed with repeated injuries. And I probably had hopes on Juan Pena a lot longer than most rational people.

 

Even this year, I started off with making Cesar Puello my newest addition to this list. We might even see how/if that one ever pans out.

 

Who was your baseball man-crush for Boston or that you wanted in Boston for whatever reason that no one else ever saw?

[Bellhorn04]

Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.

[mvp 78]

Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.

 

Gross.

[notin]

Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.

 

Another name that crossed my mind. He is an interesting one given how polarizing he is among Sox fans.

 

I have certainly campaigned for him on this board, and he absolutely has justified any interest, even recently. I figured someone (Kimmi?) would mention him. And Buchholz was one of the two guys (Daniel Nava being the other) who really made the ol' WAPM look good, which gives him a permanent place in my heart...

[notin]

Gross.

 

Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...

 

[Slasher9]

buchholz (was in Fenway for his no-no), JBj, and i named my son Manny so theres that.....

[bkzwhitestrican]

Pablo Sandoval

[mvp 78]

Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...

 

 

The only player that will have my heart forever and ever is Bill Mueller.

[Slasher9]

The only player that will have my heart forever and ever is Bill Mueller.

 

i heard he was a rapist tho. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

[Bellhorn04]

Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...

 

 

What about Greg?

[mvp 78]

i heard he was a rapist tho. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

 

It's a lie. It was consensual with me.

[Jasonbay44]

I used to love Coco Crisp

[notin]

What about Greg?

 

f*** him.

 

Actually I like him for playing too shallow when JD Drew came up in the 2008 ALCS

[Bellhorn04]

f*** him.

 

Actually I like him for playing too shallow when JD Drew came up in the 2008 ALCS

 

LOL that was Gabe Gross. I had to look it up.

 

Greg played for the Phils.

[Kimmi]

David Ross.

 

I am a fan of back up catchers, in general.

[a700hitter]

David Ross.

 

I am a fan of back up catchers, in general.

Can you have a man-crush?

[Bellhorn04]

Can you have a man-crush?

 

Well, she just posted this: "The Yankees are toast before the season even starts!"

[notin]

LOL that was Gabe Gross. I had to look it up.

 

Greg played for the Phils.

 

Weird. So did Kevin. Gross team...

[moonslav59]

Sandy Leon.

[oldmaninthevegasdesert]

Bill Lee

[Jasonbay44]

Sandy Leon.

 

I also liked Leon.

 

Others I really liked: Ramon Ramirez, Hideki Okajima, Darnell McDonald, JD Drew, Shane Victorino, Coco Crisp and I for some reason thought Wily Mo Pena was gonna be a superstar and was excited when we got him.

[notin]

I also liked Leon.

 

Others I really liked: Ramon Ramirez, Hideki Okajima, Darnell McDonald, JD Drew, Shane Victorino, Coco Crisp and I for some reason thought Wily Mo Pena was gonna be a superstar and was excited when we got him.

 

Never liked Ramon Ramirez much, because I felt Coco Crisp was worth more and that was a bad trade where the Sox settled.

 

Now Ramon Martinez I liked a lot, mostly because he only had one MLB skill during his tenure with the Red Sox - beating the Yankees....

[vegasbob]

Ramon Ramirez and Manny DelCarmen were my two favorite flamethrowers out of the bullpen. Not because they were good but because no two buddies could put more napalm on a small fire than anyone else I knew . On the other hand I thought Daniel Bard would be HoF material with his fastball coming out of the pen. Liked him a lot until he lost his mind which I blamed on Clay Buchholz a possible mental midget.

[moonslav59]

I also liked Leon.

 

Others I really liked: Ramon Ramirez, Hideki Okajima, Darnell McDonald, JD Drew, Shane Victorino, Coco Crisp and I for some reason thought Wily Mo Pena was gonna be a superstar and was excited when we got him.

 

My first "man crush" was on Tommy Harper, while I lived just blcoks from County Stadium in Milwaukee. He was one of the first 30-30 players in MLB. When they traded him to Boston near the time we moved to Maine, I switched to being a Sox fan. (It's all his fault!)

 

I loved Tiant, Lee, Burleson and Lynn.

 

I was a big Cha Cha Cepeda, Oil Can Boyd, Burks and Evans fan early on, too.

 

Tom Gordon, Greg Harris, Rich "El Guapo" Garces, Alex Gonzalez, Pedro, VTek, Mueller, Nava, Uehara

 

Most recently, JBJ & Leon and of course, Devers.

 

Edited March 6, 2020 by moonslav59

[mvp 78]

Rice

Mo

Pedro

Mueller

Papi

Devers

 

That's the general timeline.

[Donnie Sadler was short]

Sandy Leon.

 

Winner winner chicken dinner