NEW YORK – “This is one that I’ve had circled for a long time,” Hunter Dobbins told the Herald as he stood in the visitors dugout watching passing showers soak Yankee Stadium.

The 25-year-old right-hander isn’t just a Red Sox rookie eager for his first career start against the Yankees on Sunday, when he’ll officially enter what most people consider the greatest rivalry in sports.

Including Dobbins’ father, Lance, who played college ball at Alabama and pitched two seasons in the Arizona Diamondbacks system but never made it to the Show.

“My dad was a diehard Red Sox fan,” the younger Dobbins said. “And I’ve said it before, that if the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire.”

Dobbins grew up playing second base, and said the favorite Red Sox player of his youth was

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