Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino was asked on WEEI in Boston on Thursday whether he felt former pitching coach Bob McClure was the source in Jeff Passan's explosive story last week.

Passan reported a meeting players had with ownership in July about their displeasure with manager Bobby Valentine. Passan used to cover the Royals and McClure, who was fired on Tuesday, coached for Kansas City.

"There's no way of knowing whether Bob McClure or whoever ... of course, Bob McClure was not in that meeting," Lucchino said. "I'm well aware of the overlap in Kansas City. That's not a surprise to me. That was called to my attention. But, again there's no way of knowing so I'm not going to make any baseless accusations."