Article: Red Sox Owner Speaks Out on Garciaparra


AP Online
08-04-2004
Dateline: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Boston Red Sox owner John Henry said the team offered Nomar Garciaparra a $60 million contract a second time in March in a genuine effort to keep him, but the shortstop had no interest in it.

"We were trying to find a way to sign him, and we never received a counter (offer) to any of the proposals we made," Henry told Boston-area reporters Tuesday, when the Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5-2.

Henry also said that six days before Saturday's trade of Garciaparra to the Chicago Cubs, Garciaparra's agent told general manager Theo Epstein that he had to talk the star shortstop out of asking to be traded.

"We knew from that that he didn't ...

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