Well, nothing like a new thread to bring me out of hiding!
(I'm lying. My resurfacing is a complete coincidence.)
For this iteration of a (likely futile) attempt to get back to regular gameplay, I chose the 1979 Mariners, on the theory that some of the groundwork of getting facegens for the near-misses had already been done, back in the days of my original 1980 Texas sim. (O lost!)
And indeed, the M's first exhibition game was against the Red Sox (because even v.22 still doesn't understand about Grapefruit League v. Cactus League) and familiar near-Sawx like Chet Brooks and Russ Larribee (Southington CT's own) were in the game. And, thanks to your previous work, so were their faces.
But of course, there are always more.
Russell Lee Pruitt of Pine Bluff AR attended the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, and was drafted in 6th Round of the 1979 January draft by Boston. (Honestly, I thought the January draft was already gone by then.) He had a fine rookie year as an Elmira Pioneer (.883 OPS), and got his face on a TCMA card.
Of course, after that nice debut, he never posted anything over .800 again, nor got beyond AA, but in a 1979 game, the AI doesn't know about that particular anti-climax. Have fun!