Overview

• Before his June 8 debut against the Yankees, Dobbins declared he’d retire rather than play for them and attributed it to his father’s supposed draft and trade history.
• Yankees GM Brian Cashman and the team’s amateur department found no record of Lance Dobbins ever being drafted or signed by New York.
• Baseball-Reference and interviews with Andy Pettitte confirmed Lance Dobbins only pitched in independent leagues from 1996–97 and had no ties to the Diamondbacks organization then.
• On June 11, Hunter Dobbins told reporters his pregame comments came from childhood stories and photos provided by his father, and he acknowledged he did not fact-check them.
• Shifting attention back to the field, Dobbins is focusing on his scheduled Saturday start at Fenway Park in the second game of the Red Sox–Yankees series.