Name Yer Red Sock, Episode 1

[Brock Beauchamp]

This is a game we play on the other sites and I wanted to bring it over here. Guess the player, the unobscured image will be released in three days or so.

[moonslav59]

I thought Story, but the arm looks too fat. 

Romy?

[jad]

Does any position player routinely a grip like that?  I guess so?  (I would have said Pedey, but I in fact have no idea.)

 

[Jasonbay44]

I was going to say Youk because the right arm looked pretty big. But the fact the body type doesn’t match up and it looks like the guy is playing SS.
 

I was thinking Marco Scutaro or Stephen Drew with a lean towards Scutaro. Xander manned SS for so long and the skin complexion doesn’t match him and the picture looks aged enough to not be Story. All the other guys over the last decade and before/during Xander I remember playing SS were either older or not white (Deven Marrero, Yamaico Navarro, Marco Hernandez, etc)

[Jasonbay44]

Great idea for a game by the way. Reminds me of what me and my friends do when drinking sometimes. Well just see who can name a more obscure player, guess players colleges or try guessing random sports trivia lol

[notin]

You’d think that giant red question mark face would be immediately recognizable…

[notin]

9 hours ago, Jasonbay44 said:

Great idea for a game by the way. Reminds me of what me and my friends do when drinking sometimes. Well just see who can name a more obscure player, guess players colleges or try guessing random sports trivia lol

My baseball nut daughter does the college one to me.  Also she likes to see how many of the ten headshots randomly chosen each day on baseball-reference.com I can guess.  (Exact opposite of this game.). Or read off all the teams a guy played for and make me guess the player…

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

It's Diasuke Matsuzaka, who must have borrowed Marco Scutaro's glove (signed in white script over the thumb hole). I would've said Marco, but the body shape and gyro-ball grip look more like Dice K. The question mark gives it away, since everyone's still wondering if that pitch ever really existed...

[Jasonbay44]

1 hour ago, notin said:

My baseball nut daughter does the college one to me.  Also she likes to see how many of the ten headshots randomly chosen each day on baseball-reference.com I can guess.  (Exact opposite of this game.). Or read off all the teams a guy played for and make me guess the player…

My friends do a similar one with the teams played for. They’ll name a player and we have to name every team he plays Ed for. It gets tough for the guys like Curtis Granderson, Fernando Rodney, Edwin Jackson and etc, or even just the guys who play for a random team you forget (Ken Griffey Jr on White Sox, Manny on Rays, Adam Laroche for 3 days on Red Sox, etc) 

[notin]

17 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

My friends do a similar one with the teams played for. They’ll name a player and we have to name every team he plays Ed for. It gets tough for the guys like Curtis Granderson, Fernando Rodney, Edwin Jackson and etc, or even just the guys who play for a random team you forget (Ken Griffey Jr on White Sox, Manny on Rays, Adam Laroche for 3 days on Red Sox, etc) 

Greg Maddux as a Padre or Dodger…

[notin]

It’s Scutaro.  5Gold figured it out…

[Bellhorn04]

Yeah, it's Scutaro 100%.   This looks like the actual picture.

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2010/09/14/ask_amalie_17/ 

[Jasonbay44]

7 minutes ago, notin said:

Greg Maddux as a Padre or Dodger…

Jim Edmonds as a Brewer, Sammy Sosa on Orioles, Miguel Tejada on Royals and Javy Lopez on Red Sox are more fun ones. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

33 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

Edwin Jackson

I doubt even Edwin Jackson can name all the teams Edwin Jackson played for.

[Jasonbay44]

35 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I doubt even Edwin Jackson can name all the teams Edwin Jackson played for.

One of the most weird careers I can remember. He Played for literally half the league. He would be good one year, one of worst pitchers in league the next year, and then be bad or average. 
 

He’s put up a 4 WAR season and two seasons of -2.3 WAR or worse. He’s led MLB in losses. He’s thrown a 149 pitch no hitter with 8 walks. 
 

Just an incredible amount of randomness. 

[Bellhorn04]

14 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

One of the most weird careers I can remember. He Played for literally half the league. He would be good one year, one of worst pitchers in league the next year, and then be bad or average. 
 

He’s put up a 4 WAR season and two seasons of -2.3 WAR or worse. He’s led MLB in losses. He’s thrown a 149 pitch no hitter with 8 walks. 
 

Just an incredible amount of randomness. 

That no-hitter came on June 25, 2010.

His ERAs by month for 2010:

6.67

5.58

2.11

7.24

1.47

4.93

 

 

[Jasonbay44]

Just now, Bellhorn04 said:

That no-hitter came on June 25, 2010.

His ERAs by month for 2010:

6.67

5.58

2.11

7.24

1.47

4.93

 

 

That pretty much sums up his career. Consistently inconsistent 

[moonslav59]

The fact that he looked so damn good, at times, is what gave each new team hope he might put it all together for a prolonged period of time.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Marco!

[notin]

On 3/1/2025 at 10:06 AM, Jasonbay44 said:

Jim Edmonds as a Brewer, Sammy Sosa on Orioles, Miguel Tejada on Royals and Javy Lopez on Red Sox are more fun ones. 

Dwight Evans as an Oriole.  Eddie Murray as an Angel.  Trevor Hoffman as a Brewer.  And at the opposite end of his career, Trevor Hoffman as a Marlin.  

 

[Jasonbay44]

3 hours ago, notin said:

Dwight Evans as an Oriole.  Eddie Murray as an Angel.  Trevor Hoffman as a Brewer.  And at the opposite end of his career, Trevor Hoffman as a Marlin.  

 

I feel like the Orioles have a LOT of former stars sign there at the end of their career or for a random 1 year pit stop that is forgettable or bad. You mentioned Evans and there is also Sosa, Vladdy, Reggie Jackson, Tim Raines, K-Rod, Jim Thome, Justin Turner, Derek Lee and even recently they had Kimbrel and even signed Felix Hernandez before he decided to sit out during covid. 

[moonslav59]

 Boggs and Tiant in Yankee uniforms was hurtful, although neither had a full and great season with them.

[mvp 78]

Scutaro was a fun little player. One of the few bright spots from the 2010 season. Too bad he only played one year for the Sox.