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Former Boston Red Sox slugger Steve Pearce says the club won the 2018 World Series "fair and square" amid an MLB investigation into an alleged sign-stealing scheme.
Pearce, that year's World Series MVP, made the comment Monday during an appearance on WEEI in which he announced his retirement from baseball:
"That's such a joke to us. When it came out we were all kind of joking about it. We just want this to pass us. We won it fair and square. Whatever they accused us of, we were all kind of like, 'I can't believe this is even an issue.