Dominican pitcher and World Series champion Pedro Martinez told Hoy newspaper’s Pappy Perez that his first choice for next year’s season is to play in Boston. “Boston has my attention and that is why I am not talking about offers and have stayed away from the press, to avoid misinterpretations,” he said. “If I do not play with Boston, which I wish to, then I would like to play with a manager that respects a pitcher as I am, someone like Felipe Alou, who is a father to me, Tony La Russa, Dusty Baker and all those baseball men that respect the work that has been carried out.” Hoy says that other teams that have expressed an interest in Martinez are the New York Yankees, Anaheim Angels and the Los Angeles Dodgers, but they will need to wait until Thursday to make their offers to the three-time winner of the Cy Young award, who is now a free agent. To read about the Boston Red Sox offer to Pedro, see
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/…