and your point is? they are still current players.

funny you dont touch on the Red Sox last 2 WS teams and how they were top heavy with free agent signings.

the 04 team had no homegrown player in the everyday lineup or rotation

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Posted by purpleNgoldsaint

Houma Louisiana

Member since Jun 2009

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Posted on 7/4/11 at 8:14 am to Lester Earl

I have no logical reason to be a Red Sox fan, besides my dad was always a fan and he would watch the games with me when they were on tv. He was a fan because when he was a kid Sox games were the only ones he could get on the radio in Morgan City

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Posted by NHTIGER

Central New Hampshire

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 7/4/11 at 10:53 am to Lester Earl

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funny you dont touch on the Red Sox last 2 WS teams and how they were top heavy with free agent signings.

the 04 team had no homegrown player in the everyday lineup or rotation

Yup, that 2004 starting rotation was just top-heavy with highly-paid free agents -- as in ONE.

Five guys started 157 of the 162 games that year.

Only Schilling was an expensive free agent signing (and he was originally signed by Boston and pitched his first 60 or so games in their minor league system).

They TRADED for Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe. A trade is equally available to all organizations.

And the other two starters, Wakefield and Arroyo, were released by their teams and picked up for little more than the major league minimum - something also available to any other team that year.

Ortiz is also an example of a very low-cost castoff that any team in baseball could have afforded to sign after the Twins gave up on him.

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