BOSTON — Dave Dombrowski was ready. Asked on Monday about the Yankees’ flurry of moves this month, culminating in a trade with Oakland for the prized right-hander Sonny Gray, Dombrowski said the Yankees had become the Golden State Warriors. His team, the Boston Red Sox, is now the underdog.
“I don’t know how they’ll lose a game right now,” Dombrowski said.
Dombrowski, Boston’s president for baseball operations, had been storing up the sarcasm for nearly eight months. In December, when the Red Sox added the overpowering Chris Sale to a decorated rotation, Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman compared them to the Warriors — a runaway basketball juggernaut that keeps stacking superstars.