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If a team doesn't retire a number when the player retires, how much could that player have really meant to them?
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It depends on the team. The Red Sox don't immediately retire player numbers yet they probably have the toughest requirements of any franchise in sports. You need to have (a) played for at least 10 years in Boston, (b) made it into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame as a Red Sox player, and (c) retired in the Red Sox organization. And even then, that merely makes you eligible.