After seeing multiple posts sharing this idea, that JDM is a full-time DH, I had a thought... The Red Sox are but one season removed from employing the greatest clutch hitter in Red Sox history as full-time DH. Arguably the most important player to ever wear the uniform. A player who, in retirement, is still the most popular Red Sox. And the most they ever paid David Ortiz was $16M a season.
Acknowledging that there’s more money in the game now, and that salaries will always go up, and that they’ve burned themselves with the contracts to Sandoval and Hanley, etc, etc... Acknowledging all of those other factors, is there a chance the Sox front office, or more likely ownership, is thinking, “the most we ever paid Big Papi was $16M, and this guy thinks he’s worth $25M? Ha!”