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Who are the top Boston Red Sox of all time? Here is our top 10 countdown:
10. Dwight Evans: spending all but one of his 20 seasons with the Red Sox, Evans compiled 2,400+ career hits, including nearly 385 home runs, while making three All-Star teams and winning two Silver Sluggers and eight Gold Gloves.
9. Manny Ramirez: a model of consistency with six straight years of 30+ home runs and 100+ runs batted in, Ramirez was an 8x All-Star and 6x Silver Slugger during his time in Boston, and won two World Series titles with the team, earning World Series MVP in 2004.
8. Cy Young: the winningest (and losingest) pitcher in MLB history, Young spent nearly a decade with the Red Sox and compiled 192 of his 511 career wins with the team, also adding a Pitching Triple Crown and a World Series title at the turn of the 20th century.
7. Jim Rice: the 1978 AL MVP, Rice spent his entire career with Boston and was one of the most feared sluggers of the 1970s and 1980s: an 8x All-Star and 2x Silver Slugger with nearly 2,500 career hits and 382 home runs.
6. Wade Boggs: during his 11 seasons with the Red Sox, Boggs won five batting titles and had seven straight 200-hit seasons en route to eight straight All-Star selections and six Silver Sluggers, ultimately retiring with the highest career batting average among third basemen (.328).
5. Pedro Martinez: a 4x All-Star and 4x ERA leader with the Red Sox, Martinez won back-to-back Cy Youngs with top-five MVP finishes at the turn of the 21st century, including the Pitching Triple Crown in 1999, and helped guide the team to its first World Series title in 86 years.
4. Roger Clemens: though his career is tainted by steroid accusations, Clemens is the team’s all-time leader in career wins and strikeouts and was a 5x All-Star, 4x ERA leader, 3x Cy Young winner, and 1986 AL MVP with Boston.
3. David Ortiz: one of the best designated hitters in baseball history, Ortiz made 10 All-Star teams and won seven Silver Sluggers in Boston while leading the team to three World Series titles (2013 World Series MVP); in his prime, he had five straight top-five MVP finishes and hit 30+ home runs 10x, including a career-high and franchise-record 54 in 2006.
2. Carl Yastrzemski: the franchise’s career leader in games played, at-bats, hits, runs batted in, and runs scored, among other categories, Yastrzemski spent 23 years with the Red Sox and was an 18x All-Star, 7x Gold Glover, and 3x batting champion perhaps best known for his legendary 1967 AL MVP and Triple Crown season.
1. Ted Williams: one of the greatest pure hitters in baseball history and the last man to hit .400 in a season (.406 in 1941), Williams is one of only two batters to win the Triple Crown twice; additionally, he was selected to 19 All-Star Games, won six batting titles and two MVP awards (though not in either of his Triple Crown campaigns nor his .406 season), and slugged a team-record 521 career home runs.
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Note: All statistics as of time of publication.
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