Here’s the $51.1 million question: Did the Boston Red Sox bid all that money to sign Daisuke Matsuzaka or merely to block him from going to the New York Yankees? “I can understand why there might be some speculation,” Houston Astros president Tal Smith said Wednesday, a day after Boston won the right to negotiate with the Japanese pitcher.
Posted: November 15th, 2006.
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