Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein had a conversation with closer Jonathan Papelbon following negative comments he made about the possibility of adding Billy Wagner. Papelbon expressed reservations about adding Wagner over the weekend, and Boston officially acquired the reliever on Tuesday. "I think Pap feels he was misunderstood," Epstein told WEEI.com. "He's not a Rhodes Scholar to begin with. When I talked to him directly about it he couldn't have been more excited. When we had our window (to speak to Wagner), Pap went out of his way to make sure he knew he was more than welcome here. The Mets weren't going to pick up his option and they were going to offer the same thing we did. We do have the right as the Mets would have had the right, to offer him arbitration at the end of the year. We'll deal with that at the appropriate time."