Apparently realizing that he's taking a lot of heat for his
inaction this off-season, Red Sox President of Baseball Operations
Dave Dombrowski is firing up the propaganda machine in response to the Yankee signing of
Giancarlo Stanton. Most neutral observers—including Stanton's agents—made it clear that Boston
never showed any interest in the NL MVP. Reportedly, the Red Sox never made a formal
or informal offer and were left at the starting gate as
Brian Cashman galloped away with the big prize. Now, Dombrowski is doling out some serious "CYA" spin on how things went down at the end,
"When we called at the end, we were not on his list. So they were going somewhere else. We did all our homework on Stanton. I knew exactly where everything was, what they were looking for, dollars that were involved. Just was not where we were at that particular time." Uh-huh.
