No team has been told anything officially, and nobody is speaking for the record about the Daisuke Matsuzaka bidding, lest they incur the wrath of the commissioner's office. But multiple major league officials monitoring the process -- like pollsters standing outside the voting sites on Election Day -- believe that the Red Sox placed a staggering bid that will prevail.
Nothing has been confirmed, no announcement has been made, but those officials are confident that when the final Matsuzaka decision is ratified, the Red Sox, like Jim Webb in Virginia and Jon Tester in Montana, will be declared the winners. We shall see.
This morning, Bill Shaikin reports on a wild card -- the Angels placed a bid on Matsuzaka as well, and we know that Arte Moreno, the Angels' owner, has the financial might and the aggressive nature to win this kind of auction.
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Buster Olney
