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The 13 Greatest Boston Red Sox Pitchers of All Time

by YPB Team

Three Cy Young Awards, a bloody sock and a 0.96 ERA are all on this list, and none of them walks away with it.

  1. Babe Ruth — ranked #11
    Babe Ruth
    Before the bat took over, he won 89 games in Boston with a 2.19 ERA and three World Series rings.
  2. Pedro Martinez — ranked #22
    Pedro Martinez
    From 1998 to 2004 the most dominant pitcher in baseball, and the best any Red Sox fan has seen.
  3. Cy Young — ranked #33
    Cy Young
    Joined at 34 and immediately went 33-10 with a 1.62 ERA; the award carries his name.
  4. Lefty Grove — ranked #44
    Lefty Grove
    Finished his career in Boston with an ERA title in four of his eight seasons there.
  5. Smoky Joe Wood — ranked #55
    Smoky Joe Wood
    Went 34-5 in 1912, one of the great single seasons any pitcher has had.
  6. Luis Tiant — ranked #66
    Luis Tiant
    The spinning delivery and the heart of the 1975 pennant winners.
  7. Jon Lester — ranked #77
    Jon Lester
    A no-hitter, a cancer recovery and two championship rings.
  8. Curt Schilling — ranked #88
    Curt Schilling
    The bloody sock in the 2004 ALCS, and the postseason nerve behind it.
  9. Dutch Leonard — ranked #99
    Dutch Leonard
    His 0.96 ERA in 1914 is still the modern single-season record.
  10. Mel Parnell — ranked #1010
    Mel Parnell
    The winningest left-hander in franchise history before Lester.
  11. Tim Wakefield — ranked #1111
    Tim Wakefield
    Seventeen seasons of knuckleballs and whatever role the team needed that week.
  12. Jonathan Papelbon — ranked #1212
    Jonathan Papelbon
    The franchise saves leader and the closer of the 2007 title team.
  13. Chris Sale — ranked #1313
    Chris Sale
    Struck out the final batter of the 2018 World Series.

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Eighty-nine wins for Boston and 29⅔ scoreless World Series innings that stood until Whitey Ford, on the one list that files him as a pitcher: https://youpick.best/articles/babe-ruth-ranked-many-ways

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