Boston Red Sox

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Boston Red Soxfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Boston Red Sox has passed down, steadiest first. The 3B room is their most stable — 18 holders across 122 years, a new one every 6.8 on average.

1. 3B18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1901–2022 · one every 6.8y
   Jimmy Collins1901–1907→Harry Lord1907–1910→Larry Gardner1908–1917→Billy Werber1933–1936→Pinky Higgins1937–1946→Jim Tabor1938–1944→George Kell1952–1954→Frank Malzone1955–1965→Joe Foy1966–1968→Butch Hobson1975–1980→Carney Lansford1981–1982→Wade Boggs1982–1992→Scott Cooper1990–1994→Tim Naehring1990–1997→Shea Hillenbrand2001–2003→Bill Mueller2003–2005→Mike Lowell2006–2010→Travis Shaw2015–2022
2. DH5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1995–2026 · one every 6.4y
   Reggie Jefferson1995–1999→David Ortiz2003–2016→Andrew Benintendi2016–2020→J.D. Martinez2018–2022→Masataka Yoshida2023–2026
3. 2B23 holders · 22 handoffs · 1901–2021 · one every 5.3y
   Hobe Ferris1901–1907→Amby McConnell1908–1910→Steve Yerkes1909–1914→Del Pratt1921–1922→Bill Regan1926–1930→Buddy Myer1927–1928→Bobby Doerr1937–1951→Billy Goodman1947–1957→Ted Lepcio1952–1959→Pete Runnels1958–1962→Chuck Schilling1961–1965→Felix Mantilla1963–1965→Dalton Jones1964–1969→Mike Andrews1966–1970→Doug Griffin1971–1977→Denny Doyle1975–1977→Jerry Remy1978–1984→Marty Barrett1982–1990→Jody Reed1987–1992→Jeff Frye1996–2000→Dustin Pedroia2006–2019→Jose Iglesias2011–2021→Brock Holt2013–2019
4. C26 holders · 25 handoffs · 1901–2026 · one every 4.8y
   Lou Criger1901–1908→Bill Carrigan1906–1916→Wally Schang1918–1920→Muddy Ruel1921–1931→Charlie Berry1928–1932→Rick Ferrell1933–1937→Johnny Peacock1937–1944→Hal Wagner1944–1947→Birdie Tebbetts1947–1950→Sammy White1951–1959→Russ Nixon1960–1968→Bob Tillman1962–1967→Carlton Fisk1969–1980→Bob Montgomery1970–1979→Gary Allenson1979–1984→Rich Gedman1980–1990→Tony Peña Sr.1990–1993→Bill Haselman1995–2003→Mike Stanley1996–2000→Jason Varitek1997–2011→Doug Mirabelli2001–2007→Kelly Shoppach2005–2012→David Ross2008–2014→Jarrod Saltalamacchia2010–2013→Christian Vázquez2014–2022→Connor Wong2021–2026
5. SS28 holders · 27 handoffs · 1901–2026 · one every 4.5y
   Freddy Parent1901–1907→Heinie Wagner1906–1918→Hal Janvrin1911–1917→Everett Scott1914–1921→Joe Cronin1935–1945→Eric McNair1936–1938→Skeeter Newsome1941–1945→Johnny Pesky1942–1952→Eddie Lake1943–1945→Vern Stephens1948–1952→Milt Bolling1952–1957→Billy Klaus1955–1958→Don Buddin1956–1961→Eddie Bressoud1962–1965→Rico Petrocelli1963–1976→Luis Aparicio1971–1973→Rick Burleson1974–1980→Glenn Hoffman1980–1987→Luis Rivera1989–1993→John Valentin1992–2001→Nomar Garciaparra1996–2004→Jose Offerman1999–2002→Hanley Ramirez2005–2018→Álex González2006–2009→Marco Scutaro2010–2011→Xander Bogaerts2013–2022→Mookie Betts2014–2019→Trevor Story2022–2026
6. 1B36 holders · 35 handoffs · 1902–2025 · one every 3.4y
   George Lachance1902–1905→Jake Stahl1903–1913→Myron Grimshaw1905–1907→Clyde Engle1910–1914→Richard Hoblitzell1914–1918→Del Gainer1914–1919→Stuffy McInnis1918–1921→George Burns1922–1923→Joe Harris1922–1925→Phil Todt1924–1930→Jimmie Foxx1936–1942→Tony Lupien1940–1943→Rudy York1946–1947→Walt Dropo1949–1952→Dick Gernert1952–1959→Mickey Vernon1956–1957→Dick Stuart1963–1964→George Scott1966–1979→Ken Harrelson1967–1969→Cecil Cooper1971–1976→Tony Perez1980–1982→Dave Stapleton1980–1986→Bill Buckner1984–1990→Carlos Quintana1988–1993→Nick Esasky1989→Mo Vaughn1991–1998→Scott Hatteberg1995–2001→Brian Daubach1999–2004→Kevin Millar2003–2005→Kevin Youkilis2004–2012→Adrián González2011–2012→Mike Napoli2013–2015→Mitch Moreland2017–2020→Rafael Devers2017–2025→Enrique Hernández2021–2023→Triston Casas2022–2025

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1901–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.