Dennis Lamp came to Boston as a 35-year-old starter-turned-reliever on the back 9 of his career. Nevertheless, Lamp was an effective option out of the bullpen for the Red Sox during his four-year tenure from 1988-1991, posting a 3.76 ERA over close to 400 innings. Most relievers today would need five or six healthy years to reach that total due to the increasing specialization that goes into building a relief corps.
What’s more, it is of course common knowledge that Lamp had the undisputed manliest, ruggedest ‘stache of any right-handed former Red Sox reliever named Dennis in league history. Thus, he was a shoe-in to make this list.
Here Lamp is hamming it up in spring training with Roger Clemens and a few other Sox pitchers.
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