4 players you forgot were on recent Red Sox World Series winning teams

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2018 Red Sox --Tzu-Wei Lin

Back in 2018, there were almost too many players to count as they had depth at almost every position. A very close number two to Lin is Tony Renda, who had a Moonlight Graham-like season. He was credited with playing in one game, but he never played the field and only came in as a pinch-runner and wound-up scoring.

Talk about nothing to write home about. Now the next closest person to that roster was Lin. Lin had a few stints with the big club back in 2018, but he actually played the most games of his entire major league career in 2018.

He played in 37 games, and hit .246 along with his only career home run, and a career-high six RBI. When he hit his home run, Lin became just the third Taiwanese-born player to hit a home run.

Lin was ultimately left off of the postseason roster, but still being on the roster period in that season gave him the credit of being "on the roster of a World Series winning team."

Honorable Mentions: Drew Pomeranz, Brandon Phillips, Sam Travis

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