Some of ’em left town amid fan outrage; some left quietly via waiver pick-ups or trading-deadline transactions; and some left with a swift kick out the door, with GOOD RIDDANCE tattooed on their backsides as they headed for greener pastures or obscurity.

Whatever the reason, baseball’s current major-league rosters include many prominent and not-so-prominent former Red Sox players. Some of them have flourished, but others have proved that their departures from Boston were not such a bad thing.

Was it good or bad for the Boston Red Sox when the following players changed uniforms? You be the judge.

Part one of this post-Fenway reunion can be found here. Teams are listed alphabetically.

Los Angeles: in that earlier column, we forgot to mention pitcher Hideo Nomo, who left Boston after just one season (13-10, 4.50 ERA, plus an April 2001 no-hitter) to return to the Dodgers. He sparkled for LA last season, going 16-6 with a 3.39 ERA and 139 strikeouts in 34 starts, and didn’t lose after July 16, winning his last seven outings. The 34-year-old Japanese native is 4-4 with a 3.16 ERA this season.

Montreal: a handful of Boston’s former minor-league pitching prospects eventually ended up in the barren wasteland north of the border. When one considers the three fairly prominent trades that Montreal and Boston conducted over the past six seasons, it’s a wonder that yet another couldn’t be worked out during the past off-season so that the Sox could obtain either Bartolo Colon or Javier Vazquez. Nevertheless, one of the premier rising stars for the Expos is pitcher Tony Armas, son of the former Sox outfielder. The 25-year-old right-hander was the "player to be named later" when Pedro Martinez was acquired in exchange for pitcher Carl Pavano. Armas finished a 12-12 campaign last year with a 3-0 September, and he was 2-1 with a 2.61 ERA before going on the DL last month with a strained rotator cuff. Also in Montreal’s starting rotation is Japanese pitcher Toma Ohka, who was traded by Boston (with the legendary Rich Rundles) for closer Urgueth Urbina in July 2001. Ohka, who went 6-13 over his brief career with the Sox, went 13-8 last year with a 3.18 ERA, and is 2-4 with a 4.66 ERA to start this season. Sunny Kim and Seung Song, the Korean hurlers who were part of the deal that brought Cliff Floyd to Boston last season, both remain on Montreal’s 40-man roster, but Kim is in Triple-A Edmonton (2-2, 3.71 this year), and Song — who has yet to wear a major-league uniform — is at Double-A Harrisburg, where he’s won his first three starts of the year behind a sparkling 1.61 ERA. The final Sox alum up in Quebec is former villain Wil Cordero, who was run out of Boston in the fall of 1997 after pleading guilty to assaulting his then-wife. Cordero, who had a pair of productive seasons for the Sox but was never forgiven by fans for his off-field transgressions, has since been with the White Sox, Indians, Pirates, Indians again, and now the Expos, where the 31-year-old reserve outfielder is batting just .215 in 20 games.

New York Mets: no fewer than six reasonably well-known former Red Sox are on the Mets’ roster, but given the New Yorkers’ struggles out of the box this season, it’s not surprising that most of the Sox alumni are indirectly contributing to the team’s 14-19 start. Forty-year-old David Cone is back in the majors after taking a year off last season, and it appears that perhaps retirement might have been the better course for the veteran right-hander who went 9-7 for Boston in 2001. Cone is just 1-3 and has a ghastly 6.75 ERA for the Mets, and he has sought refuge on the DL recently to rest his arthritic hip. Meanwhile, one of the game’s most consistent set-up men, Mike Stanton, is seeing things from the other side of the coin, as he has gone from the penthouse to the outhouse after collecting three World Series rings with the pinstripers. As with Mario Mendoza, the Yanks decided to part ways with Stanton during the off-season, and the 35-year-old lefty (who pitched nearly a year for the Sox in the mid-’90s before being traded to Texas for the immortal Mark Brandenburg and Kerry Lacy) merely crossed town to help the staggering Mets’ bullpen. Tony Clark, who batted an abysmal .207 in his one season with Boston last year, has stepped in for a hobbling Mo Vaughn to hit .239 through 26 games this year. Vaughn, a major disappointment in both Anaheim and Flushing Meadows after his star-studded career in Boston, is on the DL with knee problems and may be facing arthroscopic surgery. The Mets won’t miss him too much, though, since he’s hitting just .190 through the first 27 games and is the biggest target of the Shea Stadium boo-birds. (Aren’t you glad that Mo didn’t take Boston’s five-year, $65 million contract offer back in 1999, Sox fans?) Another lost soul is second baseman Rey Sanchez, whose services were not needed by the Sox after his one-year stint last year. Sanchez, who batted a respectable .286 in 107 games in 2002, is flailing away at a .189 clip through his first 28 contests. Finally, Cliff Floyd — who would have cost the Red Sox a minimum of $8 million a year had Boston chosen to re-sign the unrestricted free agent — is not only hitting a paltry .243 in the first year of a three-year, $30 million contract, but is hobbling around like a guy who just finished the Ironman triathlon. While the oft-injured Floyd’s departure from Boston was decried by many of the Fenway Faithful, letting him go sure looks like one of Theo Epstein’s best moves so far.

New York Yankees: hmmm, can we find anyone on this roster who used to play for Boston? Anybody? How ’bout you there, #22? You ever wear the crimson hose? "Dang right ah did," drawls 40-year-old Roger Clemens, who went 41-13 for Toronto in his first two years post-Sox, and subsequently rang up a 60-27 record in the four years in the Bronx heading into this season. Now, armed with 297 career wins, 3954 strikeouts, and four post-Boston Cy Young awards, the Rocket is poised to reach 300 wins and 4000 Ks within a one-month period, perhaps at the expense of the team that drafted him out of the University of Texas. Dan Duquette let him go because he believed Clemens was in the "twilight of his career." My twilight should be so dismal. Also worth mentioning is Cuban defector Jose Contreras, who was rumored to be Boston-bound before Vader’s Raiders swooped in and gave the untested pitcher a four-year, $32 million deal. Contreras rang up a 10.80 ERA in five appearances for New York before being sent down to Triple-A Columbus, where he’ll make his third start over the weekend after striking out 16 batters in 10 innings of farm work so far.

Oakland: it’s nice to see that Scott Hatteberg has found a home on the West Coast. Hatteberg never really got a chance to show his stuff during his seven-year career in Boston, and his batting average never surpassed.277 during that time. Last year, though, in his first season with the A’s, he established career highs in nearly every category, and also hit .500 (seven for 14) in the Divisional Series with Minnesota. Hatteberg never would have gotten full-time duty in Boston as long as Jason Varitek was around, but he’s putting up good numbers again this year, hitting .292 with three HRs in 31 games.

Philadelphia: two former Sox pitchers make their homes in the City of Brotherly Love: 36-year-old lefty set-up man Rheal Cormier, who spent two seasons in Boston (1999-2000); and Josh Hancock, a September call-up from Pawtucket who was traded to Philly for Jeremy Giambi in the off-season. Cormier has gone 5-6 out of the bullpen each of the last two seasons, and Hancock started this season off in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, where he’s 3-3 for the Red Barons.

Pittsburgh: the Steel City is where former Sox prospect Jeff Suppan has surfaced, though the young right-hander has made previous stops in Arizona (who snatched him from Boston in the expansion draft) and Kansas City (where he had three 10-win seasons). This year he’s 4-2 as a starter with a 2.06 ERA. Pokey Reese, who was briefly a member of the Sox (via a trade with Colorado for Hatteberg), never actually signed with the Sox, and hooked up with the Bucs instead. Last year the former Cincinnati second baseman hit .264, and this year he’s puttering along at a .221 clip.

San Diego: after spending the better part of five seasons in Boston, Framingham’s favorite son, Lou Merloni, has gotten a new start in Southern California, where the 32-year-old utility infielder has appeared in 16 games — collecting eight hits and eight walks in just 30 at-bats in a reserve role — and is batting .267.

Seattle: one can only wonder how the Red Sox would have fared had they held on to left-handed starter Jamie Moyer instead of trading him to the Mariners in July 1996. After going 7-1 in his only Boston season, Moyer has since gone 17-5, 15-9, 14-8, 13-10, 20-6, and 13-8 in six-plus seasons for Seattle — while Bragg played just two and a half years for the Sox, never hitting over .280.

St. Louis: a couple of one-year (non-)wonders have found a home in America’s best baseball town, but no one around here pines for (or perhaps even remembers) pitchers Jeff Fassero and Dustin Hermanson. Fassero, now 40, went 8-8 for Boston in 2000 before moving on to the Cubs and now the Cards, where he’s gone 20-17 over three seasons, primarily as a closer/set-up man. Hermanson, whose injury-plagued 2002 year in Boston was marked by numerous poor outings from the bullpen, was not re-signed by the Sox. The 30-year-old righty returned to St. Louis, where he’s up to his old tricks, blowing three of his four save opportunities this season.

Texas: two of the least likable members of past Red Sox teams are deep in the heart of Texas, and unfortunately they’re both off to terrific starts this year. Carl Everett, probably the most-hated Soxer since Wil Cordero, hit just .267 in an injury-plagued campaign last year, but this season he’s apparently healthy and tearing up the league to the tune of a .318 average and 11 HRs. All we can tell Rangers fans is, just you wait. Also off to a sizzling start is former Sox closer Ugueth Urbina, who has 10 saves in 11 chances (as opposed to The Committee’s eight of 13). Urbina racked up 64 saves in a season and a half for the Sox, but he was deemed too expensive to re-sign by the Boston brass, and is now pitching lights-out in Arlington. Still, as far as Sox team chemistry goes, this pair’s departures were addition by subtraction.

Indeed, Boston’s baseball history may have been rewritten if the likes of Clemens, Moyer, Schilling, Bagwell, and Burks had stayed around to see how it all ended. Nonetheless, perhaps even more Sox fans would be crying in their PBRs if Mo, Cliff Floyd, Carl Everett, Troy O’Leary, and Heathcliff Slocumb had stuck around longer than they did.

We’ll never know. But the Red Sox currently have the third-best record in all of baseball heading into the weekend, so they must be doing something right.

And best of all, they haven’t traded Pedro or Nomar. Yet.

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