What happened exactly? That was difficult to ascertain because Aceves and Pedroia both chose to say little about it, and manager Bobby Valentine didn’t share much more.
“I’m not sure it was a big flare-up,” Valentine said. “It was about positioning. Dustin said when he gets the sign he moves and Alfredo wanted to move him on his own. It’s Alfredo being Alfredo and Dustin being a baseball player.”
After Aceves pitched the fourth inning, he and Pedroia were caught on camera in a heated discussion, one that required the intervention of third-base coach Jerry Royster. Valentine tried to intercede but Aceves waved him away.
Aceves had made a few pickoff throws to second, and they seemed to catch Pedroia off guard, because he was not on the bag when the throws came.
In the clubhouse after the game, Pedroia was tight-lipped about the incident when reporters questioned him.
“That’s none of your guys’ business,” he said. “It’s between teammates.”
Aceves tersely refused to concede that he was even upset with Pedroia.
“You are saying I’m upset,” he responded to a reporter. “I wasn’t upset.”
When he was asked what was going on, Aceves said: “It was things about our team. It was something that we have to communicate between us. But that’s between us. It’s part of the game.”
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1. Dale Sams Posted: September 02, 2012 at 01:53 AM (#4224934)As a Red Sox fan, I find that news pretty annoying, too.
The humane thing to do would be to let Valentine go now. He's clearly not coming back next season and he's lost a clubhouse he's never had. I feel bad for the guy. Well, sort of.
Ha.
Aceves has officially joined Red Sox Nation.
But seriously...when since the 40's...has a manager been told "Get the #### out of here, don't touch me. Go away, the adults are talking here."
Aceves usually seems cool as a hothouse cucumber, so for him to react that way is pretty revealing.
Knowing the appetite of the media for controversy, I'm surprised that I can't say that I've ever seen such an obvious display of distaste from a player toward his manager. Well, except for that time that Tomo Okha refused to hand over the ball on the mound to Frank Robinson.
And as for V, I was always a fan, but he never should have taken that job. The last coaches that were that bad a fit were Tarkanian with the Spurs and Petrino with the Falcons.
The Yanks let Aceves go because he missed most of 2010 with a back injury that he wouldn't rehab, and then broke his shoulder in a bike accident and was projected to miss the first two months of 2011. It seemed like there may have been some willful miscommunication about the injuries on his part. There was definitely more than a hint of fed-up-with-this in Cashman's comments at the time of the non-tender. He's a pretty good reliever, but probably not good enough to get away with being insubordinate.
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