The free agent season is with us and names will surface regarding whom the Red Sox should dump untold riches upon. Contracts that simply have an inordinate about of zeros to the right of any number between one and nine. The high profile ones such as David Price could receive upwards to $200,000,000 million.
The Red Sox have long invested in purchasing talent and that was well before free agency existed. Tom Yawkey pilfered as many stars as possible during the depression from clubs that were existing week to week. Yawkey, arguably one of the ten wealthiest Americans, brought Jimmie Foxx and Lefty Grove to Boston.