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re: Tiger Nation @ Red Soxs-Astros game
Posted on 7/4/11 at 10:53 am to Lester Earl
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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Posted on 7/4/11 at 11:38 am to NHTIGER
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A trade is equally available to all organizations.
Not true. A trade is more difficult for smaller markets as players are less likely to want to play there and the money isnt around to keep trading for top talent. Boston fans are fricking morons to think they're not part of the problem of baseball.
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