1970 Boston Red Sox season

MLB yearly infobox alt
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1970
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston, Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners = Tom Yawkey
general managers = Dick O'Connell
managers = Eddie Kasko
television = WHDH-TV, Ch. 5
radio = WHDH-AM 850
(Ken Coleman, Ned Martin, Johnny Pesky)|

The 1970 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses.

Regular season: 52 Years And Counting

The decade of the 1970s began with a new manager and a blockbuster deal that was the first of the bad ones for Boston. After the firing of Dick Williams near the end of the 1969 season, General manager Dick O'Connell reached down into the farm system again for a replacement and came up with Eddie Kasko, who had managed the Red Sox AAA farm team at Louisville to a second-place finish in 1969. Eddie had been an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox for 10 years (and would eventually become the scouting director for Boston).

Eddie took over a team in transition in 1970. Its leading pitcher was Ray Culp, with 17 wins. Jim Lonborg, the superstar of 1967, still was not back in form and went 4-1. Carl Yastrzemski led the team and the American League, with a .329 average, and Tony Conigliaro appeared to have recovered from the horrible beaning of 1967, hitting .266, with 36 home runs and 116 RBIs. Reggie Smith hit .303, and George Scott had a banner year at .296, with 16 homers and 63 RBIs. Unfortunately The Red Sox finished 21 games back of the rampaging Baltimore Orioles, who won 108 games and then went on to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970 World Series, 4 games to 1.

eason standings

Opening Day Line Up

Other batters

Relief pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball," 2nd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007]

* Class AAA: Louisville Colonels (International League; Billy Gardner, manager)
* Class AA: Pawtucket Red Sox (Eastern League; Matt Sczesny, manager)
* Class A: Winston-Salem Red Sox (Carolina League; Bill Slack, manager)
* Class A: Winter Haven Red Sox (Florida State League; John Butler, manager)
* Class A: Greenville Red Sox (Western Carolinas League; Rac Slider, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class SS-A: Jamestown Falcons (New York-Penn League; Jackie Jensen, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1970.shtml 1970 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1970&t=BOS 1970 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]