Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
Dodgers May File Tampering Charges Against The Red Sox Over Drew
Exhibit A for the disgruntled is Boston’s signing of J. D. Drew, who walked away from the final three years of his contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a move that his agent, Scott Boras, said was aboveboard and precipitated by the marketplace. The signing of Drew could lead to an investigation by the commissioner’s office into possible tampering by the Red Sox; one baseball official said the commissioner’s office would vigorously investigate the matter if it received a complaint, but added that no complaint has been forthcoming.The article also claims that Frank McCourt "is certain" tampering occurred. Supposedly, Drew decided to exercise his option when the Dodgers refused to grant him an extension; agent Scott Boras said, "We adhere to the rules," but the negotiations between Boston and the Seibu Lions over Daisuke Matsuzaka have cast that into doubt.One general manager said that many people at the general managers’ meeting, after hearing that Drew would sign with Boston, urged the Dodgers to file a tampering charge.
“We haven’t reached a decision yet,” Ned Colletti, the Dodgers’ general manager, said by telephone yesterday before leaving the winter meetings in Orlando, Fla.
Others described Colletti as angry about the Drew development and said that relations between Colletti and Theo Epstein, Boston’s general manager, had become strained to the point where Colletti wasn’t returning Epstein’s telephone calls.
Epstein denied tampering with Drew, whom he tried unsuccessfully to sign two years ago and then signed earlier this week to a five-year, $70 million contract.
“That’s not true,” Epstein said by telephone yesterday. “There’s nothing to that.”
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