This may seem like a really novel question and downright foolish to some of you, and I can understand that argument. Many will say if the Red Sox didn’t trade Nomar Garciaparra then the team wouldn’t have won in 2004, I understand that argument as well. But plenty will forget that Boston didn’t go on a wild tear right after the trade, in fact, they went 8-6 for the first half of August. So what if that trade never happened?
Well, to really break things down we have to see just what Boston got in return.