Sandoval: Boston just never felt like home

Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Boston sports scene could have warned Pablo Sandoval he was in for significant culture shock after signing a five-year, $95million deal with the Red Sox after the 2014 season. Trading the feel-good atmosphere of a San Francisco Giants team that had just won their third MLB World Series in five years for the suffocating pressure of Boston with a contract that made him an instant target turned out to be a colossal mistake — aside from the not-insignificant factor of all of that guaranteed money. Now safely ensconced back in San Francisco, three-time World series champion and two-time All-Star Sandoval felt compelled to share his feelings about the situation.