- 1982 Boston Red Sox season
MLB yearly infobox
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1982
misc =
current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark =Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston,Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners =JRY Trust ,Buddy LeRoux ,Haywood Sullivan
managers =Ralph Houk
television = WSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Ned Martin , Bob Montgomery)
radio = WITS-AM 1510
(Ken Coleman ,Jon Miller )|The by|1982Boston Red Sox season was a season in Americanbaseball . It involved the Red Sox finishing 3rd in theAmerican League East with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses.Regular season: 64 Years and Counting
In his second year as Red Sox manager, Ralph Houk kept the Sox clubhouse on an even kee, and while
Boston helped make the season interesting, it was theMilwaukee Brewers all the way finishing at 95-67, one game ahead of theBaltimore Orioles , and six up on third-place Boston. The Brewers would beat theCalifornia Angels in the1982 American League Championship Series and then lose to theSt. Louis Cardinals in the1982 World Series .Boston's best that year was a bullpen featuring
Mark Clear , with 14 wins and 14 saves, andBob Stanley , with 12 wins and 14 saves. John Tudor, who had been a disappointing 4-3 in1981 , was 13-10.Dennis Eckersley was 13-13 andMike Torrez 9-9. He would soon be gone.Hitters and Rising Stars
Carney Lansford hit .301 that year, only his second, and his last as a Red Sox.Jim Rice hit .309, with 24 homers and 97 RBIs, andDwight Evans had another big year: .292, 32 homers and 98 RBIs.Carl Yastrzemski , heading toward the end of his career, hit .275, with 16 homers and 72 RBIs. A catcher namedRich Gedman fromWorcester, Massachusetts , hit .249. A rookie also came up and surprised a lot of people:Wade Boggs had been the top hitter in the minors the previous year but had a hard time staying with Boston. He made his major league debut on April 10, 1982, in a game versus the Baltimore Orioles. He had 4 At-Bats and 0 hits. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boggswa01.shtml] Once he got into the lineup onJune 25 , when Lansford was hurt, he stayed on and hit .349.eason standings
Opening Day Line Up
Other batters
Relief pitchers
Transactions
*February 25, 1982:
Mark Fidrych was signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fidryma01.shtml Mark Fidrych Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*June 7, 1982: Sam Horn was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 1st round (16th pick) of the 1982 amateur draft. Player signed June 8, 1982. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsa01.shtml]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;Tony Torchia , manager)
* Class A:Winston-Salem Red Sox (Carolina League ;Rac Slider , manager)
* Class A:Winter Haven Red Sox (Florida State League ;Tom Kotchman , manager)
* Class SS-A: Elmira Suns (New York-Penn League ;Dick Berardino , manager)References
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1982.shtml 1982 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1982&t=BOS 1982 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]
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