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Hunter Dobbins takes Red Sox-Yankees rivalry to next level, vows he’d retire over pitching for New York

The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry might be the most contentious rivalry in baseball history, but several players have willingly played for both teams over the years.

Hunter Dobbins, though, has strongly aligned himself with one side of the rivalry, so much so that he can’t ever see himself playing for the other side.

“My dad was a diehard Red Sox fan,” the Red Sox right-handed pitcher told reporters, via the Boston Herald‘s Gabrielle Starr. “And I’ve said it before, that if the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire.