1976 Boston Red Sox season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1976
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, Jean Yawkey
managers = Darrell Johnson (W-41; L-45) and Don Zimmer (W-42; L-34)
television = WSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Dick Stockton, Ken Harrelson)
radio = WMEX-AM 1510
(Ned Martin, Jim Woods)|

The by|1976 Boston Red Sox season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in the American League East with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses.

Offseason

*February 15, 1976: Gene Michael was signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/michage01.shtml Gene Michael Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*March 3, 1976: Dick Drago was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the California Angels for John Balaz, Dick Sharon, and Dave Machemer. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dragodi01.shtml Dick Drago Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular season

eason standings

Transactions

* April 7, 1976: Diego Segui was released by the Boston Red Sox. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/seguidi01.shtml Diego Segui Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*May 4, 1976: Gene Michael was released by the Boston Red Sox.
* June 8, 1976: Wade Boggs was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 7th round of the 1976 amateur draft. Player signed June 10, 1976. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boggswa01.shtml Wade Boggs Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
* On June 15, Baseball Year|1976, Oakland A's owner Charles O. Finley sold left fielder Joe Rudi and relief pitcher Rollie Fingers to Boston for $1 million each, and pitcher Vida Blue [ [http://www.thediamondangle.com/sitt/vida.html SITT - Vida Blue ] ] to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million. Three days later, Bowie Kuhn voided the transactions in the “best interests of baseball.”

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: Pawtucket Red Sox (International League; Joe Morgan, manager)
* Class AA: Bristol Red Sox (Eastern League; John Kennedy, manager)
* Class A: Winston-Salem Red Sox (Carolina League; Tony Torchia, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class A: Winter Haven Red Sox (Florida State League; Rac Slider, manager)
* Class SS-A: Elmira Red Sox (New York-Penn League; Dick Berardino, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1976.shtml 1976 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1976&t=BOS 1976 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]