Offseason Pick 5 Results!

Back in November, I continued the annual tradition of the Pick 5 challenge in which we try to predict offseason additions to the Red Sox roster. And today, I continue the annual tradition of sharing the results of said challenge.

Before I continue, I am going to remind you of the base ground rules (there are more detail in the link above):

• You could not pick a player that was under team control for the upcoming season. Kind of unfair if I let you pick Chris Sale, Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, Rafael Devers, and David Price.
• First come, first served. If you picked the same combination of names as someone else, your results would not count.
• Order of names did not matter this year. Maybe next year, they will.
• Winner would be the user who chose the new additions with the highest salary for the 2018 season (in the post above, I mistakenly said 2017, as I was still in the process of adjusting to the idea of 2018 as a year).

Below, I will list every player chosen by an OTM member, and their destination for the 2018 season, if applicable. At the top of the list will be players who signed with or were traded to Boston. If you want to skip to the results, press ctrl+f, and search for “Official Pick 5 Results” (without the quotation marks).

J.D. Martinez - Red Sox (23.75 MM)

Eduardo Nunez - Red Sox (6 MM)

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Matt Albers - Brewers

Henderson Alvarez - Mexican League

Darwin Barney - Free Agent

Jerry Blevins - Mets

Justin Bour - Marlins

Blaine Boyer - Royals

Jay Bruce - Mets

Trevor Cahill - Athletics

Jhoulys Chacin - Brewers

Steve Cishek - Cubs

Zack Cozart - Angels

Yu Darvish - Cubs

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Wade Davis - Rockies

Brian Dozier - Twins

Stephen Drew - Retirement

Lucas Duda - Royals

Jacoby Ellsbury - Yankees

Scott Feldman - Free Agent

Doug Fister - Rangers

Logan Forsythe - Dodgers

Freddie Freeman - Braves

Luke Gregerson - Cardinals

Brad Hand - Padres

Ryon Healy - Mariners

Yoshihisa Hirano - Diamondbacks

Eric Hosmer - Padres

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Austin Jackson - Giants

Jon Jay - Royals

Howie Kendrick - Nationals

Francisco Liriano - Tigers

Jed Lowrie - Athletics

Jonathan Lucroy - Athletics

Lance Lynn - Twins

Ryan Madson - Nationals

Jake McGee - Rockies

Wade Miley - Brewers

Mike Minor - Rangers

Logan Morrison - Twins

Mike Moustakas - Royals

Wil Myers - Padres

Pat Neshek - Phillies

Bud Norris - Cardinals

Shohei Ohtani - Angels

Martin Prado - Marlins

Addison Reed - Twins

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Sean Rodriguez - Pirates

Carlos Santana - Phillies

Kyle Schwarber - Cubs

Bryan Shaw - Rockies

Giancarlo Stanton - Yankees

Ichiro Suzuki - Mariners

Anthony Swarzak - Mets

Junichi Tazawa - Marlins

Nick Vincent - Mariners

Joey Votto - Reds

Neil Walker - Yankees

Tony Watson - Giants

Matt Wieters - Nationals

Fun Facts

• Not a single person chose Mitch Moreland. If they had chosen him and J.D. Martinez, they would have been the sole winner.

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• 27 people picked J.D. Martinez.
• 15 people picked Eduardo Nunez.
• We had a total of 41 entries, so we had about as many correct picks as we did entrants, which is probably the worst we’ve ever done.
• 7 people picked both J.D. Martinez and Eduardo Nunez unless I made an error (which is possible, I’m very tired).

Official Pick 5 Results

Chelista625, Bogey2Short, SirBenjaminPK, Ricochet!, crossedsabres8, REDSOXFAN1973, and timtime321 are all “winners” this year, since 2 picks was enough to win, and they all had the exact same two guys to sign, which is why in future years I’m going to make a secondary tie-breaker the order in which the players are listed.

Here are the winners picks:

Chelista625 - J.D. Martinez, Jed Lowrie, Eric Hosmer, Tony Watson, Eduardo Nunez

Bogey2Short - Giancarlo Stanton, J.D. Martinez, Eric Hosmer, Carlos Santana, Eduardo Nunez

SirBenjaminPK - Eric Hosmer, Eduardo Nunez, Giancarlo Stanton, Addison Reed, J.D. Martinez

Ricochet! - Eric Hosmer, Eduardo Nunez, J.D. Martinez, Addison Reed, Shohei Ohtani

crossedsabres - J.D. Martinez, Eric Hosmer, Eduardo Nunez, Giancarlo Stanton, Doug Fister

REDSOXFAN1973 - Giancarlo Stanton, Eduardo Nunez, Carlos Santana, Addison Reed, J.D. Martinez

timtime321 - J.D. Martinez, Steve Cishek, Lucas Duda, Howie Kendrick, Eduardo Nunez

Conclusion and Pick 5 History

So, it goes without saying, but we more or less suck at this game. Last year we had our first tie, and this year, we had 7 winners, which is honestly just too many winners. On the plus side, the winners all got 2 right, which reverses last year’s showing.

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2018 Pick 5 Winners - Chelista625, Bogey2Short, SirBenjaminPK, Ricochet!, crossedsabres8, REDSOXFAN1973, timtime321 (2)

2017 Pick 5 Winners - sguglie2, titio1300, On to Lansdowne Street (1)

2016 Pick 5 Winner - Rick Bentsen (2)

2015 Pick 5 Winner - Rogue Nine (2)

2014 Pick 5 Winner - .406 (2)

2012 Pick 5 Winner - aubatron2011 (2)

2011 Pick 5 Winner - mg050369 (2)

Better luck next year!