Would Pedro and Lowe be needed? Nope.
If they were to get RJ, they would still probably sign Varitek.
And stll produce a team with Manny, Ortiz, Damon, RJ, Schill, Foulke, Wakefield, and Millar.
You can't, with a straight face, say that building with 100M+ payroll isn't much easier compared to working on the White Sox financial status.