9/28/2023 0 Comments 1975 red sox rosterThe good news was that the team in first place was the Milwaukee Brewers, who at this stage of their history were nowhere close to being a serious contender. The Red Sox started slowly, losing nine of their first sixteen and in mid-May, they were still a game under. All three pitchers logged over 250 innings and took pressure off a bullpen that lacked depth. Bill Lee, a crafty lefthander that could change speeds and induce groundballs as well as anyone, won 17 with a 3.95 ERA. Luis Tiant, the 34-year-old Cuban with a twirling motion that saw him turn his back to the hitter before delivering a pitch, won 18 games with a 4.02 ERA. Pitching was not the strong suit, and the Red Sox finished ninth in team ERA, but some of that can be attributed to the hitter-friendly dimensions of Fenway Park, and Boston at least had clutch pitching at the top. Boston had a lineup that could match up with anybody. 395/.529 and were backed up by solid defense and on-field leadership. 371 OBP and hit 14 home runs and one of the game’s top catchers, 27-year-old Carlton Fisk, whose numbers read. The trio of young outfielders combined with Yastrzemski-who posted a. Dwight Evans, blessed with a rifle arm, was in right field and he put up numbers of. While Lynn and Rice got the headlines in 1975, Boston had a third outstanding young outfielder who would have a long career in the Hub. He won the MVP award, the last rookie to do so. 401 on-base percentage/.566 slugging percentage, drove in 105 runs and made spectacular defensive plays in Fenway Park’s deep centerfield. Fred Lynn took over in centerfield and electrified all of baseball. Jim Rice began what was a Hall of Fame career in left field and allowed another Hall of Famer-35-year-old Carl Yastrzemski-to move to first place. The 1975 Boston Red Sox scratched the seven-year itch, won the pennant and nearly ended the franchise’s now 57-year drought on winning the whole thing.īoston got back on top with the most potent offense in the American League, and it was keyed by two rookies in the outfield. But after the 1967 “Impossible Dream” pennant, the Red Sox had not returned to postseason play.ġ974 had been the cruelest cut, when they had an eight-game lead in the AL East in August before a complete collapse left them in third place. It wasn’t a bad one-they were between 84-89 wins every single year. The Boston Red Sox had spent seven straight years in a holding pattern coming into 1975.
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