Wade Boggs batting 9th and playing first base goes 0 for 4 in his MLB debut
April 10, 1982 At Memorial Stadium Wade Boggs batting 9th and playing first base goes 0 for 4 in his MLB debut for the Red Sox against Dennis Martinez in a 5-3 Red Sox loss to Baltimore. He goes hitless in his first two appearances, then bats .354 the rest of the way, and finishes 3rd in the A.L. Rookie of the Year balloting, Cal Ripken, Jr will beat out Boggs. That said, Ripken who played in 160 games put up a WAR of 4.7, and Boggs WAR of 3.9 was accumulated in just 104 games. Had Boggs played a full season he would have handily won the ROY.
Boggs will play in 2,439 games over his career and today’s game was 1 of 6 total that he will start and bat 9th, the other 5 all happened in 1982. It is also 1 of 65 games that he will appear at first base.
The Rookie had an interesting first week, and made Aeronautical news: The Red Sox flight to Chicago was held up in traffic over O’Hare Airport, last Monday until rookie Wade Boggs rambled up to the cockpit and radioed one of the Chicago air traffic controllers his brother Wayne. The team wound up landing right on schedule. “And they say I don’t have power,” Boggs said.
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