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Hunter Dobbins directed the blame squarely at his father.
The rookie Red Sox pitcher on Wednesday responded to The Post’s bombshell that uncovered discrepancies in his story about his father’s history with the Yankees.
“The whole back story, it was stuff that I had heard growing up and seen pictures of, from my dad,” Dobbins said before the Red Sox-Rays game at Fenway Park. “At the end of the day, it’s just from my dad and what I kind of grew my love for the game. At the end of the day, I don’t go fact-check my dad or anything like that.”
Dobbins made headlines when he told the Boston Herald that he’d rather retire before ever playing for the Yankees, explaining that his father, Lance, was twice drafted by the Bombers, signed after the second selection and was subsequently traded to the Diamondbacks.
But The Post’s Joel Sherman reported that Lance Dobbins does not appear as a Yankees draft pick for any season on Baseball Reference and that Yankees GM Brian Cashman — who has been with the organization since 1986 — has no recollection of the Yankees ever drafting a Lance Dobbins.
Cashman also told Sherman that the Yankees amateur department checked their records and could not find anything about drafting a Lance Dobbins.
Even further, Joe Garagiola Jr. and Buck Showalter, who were with the Diamondbacks in 1996-97, told Sherman they had...
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