Building the all-21st Century Red Sox World Series lineup

Tim Crowley constructs an all-21st Century Boston Red Sox World Series lineup and pitching rotation drawn from the franchise's four championship teams in 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018. The article presents two separate squads: one based purely on individual World Series performance and another focused on overall talent and regular-season impact across those title-winning years.

Crowley's performance-based lineup features four World Series MVPs: David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Mike Lowell, and Steve Pearce, while the pure talent lineup incorporates stars such as Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts. Both iterations share an identical four-man starting rotation consisting of Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, Pedro Martinez, and David Price.