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Thread: Baseball Man Crushes - Who is yours?

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    Baseball Man Crushes - Who is yours?

    With every transaction this off-season, I keep expecting Bloom to DFA Ryan Weber. And every time, it has been someone else. Bloom just sees something in Weber I just don't see (and is more liekly to be right than me).

    But, really, I can't rip him for that. There have been probably dozens of players I have seen something in that no one else has, and most of the time, probably for good reason. Chad Gaudin being the prime example. Gaudin was one guy whose peripherals just seemed to be so much better than his performance, and on that other website that mvp hates, I had players I would refer to as Chad Gaudin All Stars, which basically meant I was probably (likely) mentioning them as potentially good acquisitions for the Sox a lot more often than they actually deserved to be mentioned.

    Some of the Chad Gaudin All Stars did actually pan out, including Cody Ross (for one year in Boston) and Miles Mikolas (but in St. Louis). Of course, the overwhelming majority were largely ignored by the baseball world for good reason.

    There have been others for me, going as far back as Chico Walker (who barely ever got out of Pawtucket) and Michael Coleman (ditto, for for a variety of teams). And some, like Danny Salazar, actually might have panned out to the extreme levels I predicted (potential Cy Young candidate) but instead decided to put the whole concept to bed with repeated injuries. And I probably had hopes on Juan Pena a lot longer than most rational people.

    Even this year, I started off with making Cesar Puello my newest addition to this list. We might even see how/if that one ever pans out.

    Who was your baseball man-crush for Boston or that you wanted in Boston for whatever reason that no one else ever saw?

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    Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post
    Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.
    Gross.
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    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post
    Buchholz. When he was pitching a good game I always found it a little more exciting than I should have.
    Another name that crossed my mind. He is an interesting one given how polarizing he is among Sox fans.

    I have certainly campaigned for him on this board, and he absolutely has justified any interest, even recently. I figured someone (Kimmi?) would mention him. And Buchholz was one of the two guys (Daniel Nava being the other) who really made the ol' WAPM look good, which gives him a permanent place in my heart...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Gross.
    Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...


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    buchholz (was in Fenway for his no-no), JBj, and i named my son Manny so theres that.....
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    Pablo Sandoval

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    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...

    The only player that will have my heart forever and ever is Bill Mueller.
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    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    The only player that will have my heart forever and ever is Bill Mueller.
    i heard he was a rapist tho. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
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    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    Kevin Gross? Or Wayne? Both were pretty good players, although you're probably too young to remember Wayne "the Human Triple Play"...

    What about Greg?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slasher9 View Post
    i heard he was a rapist tho. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
    It's a lie. It was consensual with me.
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    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    I used to love Coco Crisp

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post
    What about Greg?
    Fuck him.

    Actually I like him for playing too shallow when JD Drew came up in the 2008 ALCS

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    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    Fuck him.

    Actually I like him for playing too shallow when JD Drew came up in the 2008 ALCS
    LOL that was Gabe Gross. I had to look it up.

    Greg played for the Phils.
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    David Ross.

    I am a fan of back up catchers, in general.

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