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 NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - 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. "The Red Sox are the only ones that can answer that.
"Obviously, there's a lot of factors from a standpoint of ethics and integrity and so on," Smith added. "I don't think anybody should question it as it stands in advance. You have to feel that they're acting in good faith."
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