Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher Hunter Dobbins gave the team’s longstanding rivalry with the New York Yankees a much-needed spark ahead of his first career game in the Bronx this past Sunday night with a bit of pregame trash talk. But after his comments were disproven by the New York Post, Dobbins was forced to clear up the truth behind his hatred of the Yankees while speaking with reporters on Wednesday.
Ahead of the series finale between the Red Sox and the Yankees, Dobbins spoke about how he always grew up a fan of the Red Sox. And this, according to him, was in part because of how the Yankees organization once treated his father, who himself was a professional baseball pitcher.
“My dad was a diehard Red Sox fan,” Dobbins told Gabrielle Star of the Boston Herald. “And I’ve said it before, that if the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire. He was actually drafted twice by the Yankees. Signed with them his last year and then he got traded over to the Diamondbacks. I think whoever I was playing with or whoever I would have been drafted by, I’d still hate the Yankees, so Sunday should be a fun one. I’m hoping I hit a career-high in velo or something. I’m ready for it. Sunday can’t come fast enough.”
Dobbins did add one caveat about the Yankees organization, claiming that his dad was “really good friends” with former Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, who is the only player that he doesn’t dislike to come from the organization.
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