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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 2883931, member: 2839"] The Red Sox have only two high priced free agents on their team (Price and J.D. Martinez). There is no hard cap in baseball, so yes having money help cover up mistakes (Panda and Hanley) of past regimes and and other teams, but it does not necessarily always build a winning team. The "Evil Empire" comment was made after the Red Sox lost (thankfully, in hindsight) the Jose Contreras Sweepstakes in December '02. The Yankees' player payroll for '03 was nearly $153M (Sox = $98.7M), and $35.5M (22.6%) over the 2nd highest payroll (Mets). The Yankees list of notable free agents that off-season included, Hideki Matsui, Roger Clemens, and Contraras, added to Mike Mussina, David Wells, and Jason Giambi. The 2018 Red Sox ($206.2M) actually have the second highest payroll to the Giants ($221.4M), according to USA Today, but the difference between then and now is that there are 6 teams (Sox, Cubs, Nationals, Mets, Astros, and Angels) within 22.6% of the top. Betts, Benitendi, Bradley, Devers, Bogaerts, Pedroia, Swihart, Vaquez, E-Rod, and Workman, and Barnes are home grown. Sale, Porcello, Eovaldi, Kelly, Kimbrel, Leon, Holt, Kinsler, and Pearce were acquired through trades. [/QUOTE]