Boston Red Sox: 5 homegrown players on the path to greatness

The Boston Red Sox have some great homegrown talent current on the team making strides towards greatness.

When current Boston Red Sox fans define greatness in the past couple decades, they typically think of players David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Pedro Martinez.

Those players took the Red Sox from years of chasing the ghosts of Babe Ruth to reversing the curse and therefore passing the baton to a new generation of stars that has Red Sox Nation looking forward to the future despite the current Alex Cora drama and the conundrum that has the team looking to shave money to get under the luxury tax threshold.

Speaking of that luxury tax, the reason the Boston Red Sox are in that flux is spending outside of the organization to bring in players who didn’t exactly pan out like Big Papi, Ramirez and Pedro.

In fact, it has been homegrown players that have helped the team win the last couple World Series championships.  Top prospects that the team didn’t trade away have shown growth and developed into players that can and perhaps will carry the team (or another team) into the next decade.

While some of these players have a long way to go before being mentioned in the same breath of Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk or even Mo Vaughn, here are five Boston Red Sox homegrown players on the path to greatness.