Figured we'd be discussing this soon enough, so why not a thread?
MLBTR has some notes from a Big Time Baseball podcast interview with Boras, where he sets the stage for the Martinez decision. Sure sounds as though the only two options are a Red Sox extension/renegotiation or free agency. Playing under the current contract doesn't appear likely.
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Boras was not similarly restrained when the hosts raised the topic of Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez, another prominent opt-out candidate. Though he didn’t specifically address the opt-out decision (three years, $62.5MM in his case), Boras left little doubt that he has begun compiling talking points on the slugger.
Martinez, per Boras, is “one of the top 5 offensive players in the game … and that is the vision of J.D. Martinez that I believe all teams have.” But the premium hitter is not a bat-only player, says his agent. He’s in the lineup every day and “plays forty or fifty games in the outfield,” says Boras. “I don’t think teams would in any way view J.D. Martinez as a DH,” adds the always-entertaining player rep, who also emphasized Martinez’s leadership and provision of hitting information and “intensity” to teammates.
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If Sox ownership is truly interested in shedding salary (and signing Mookie), can they afford to go through this process with JD?
MLBTR has some notes from a Big Time Baseball podcast interview with Boras, where he sets the stage for the Martinez decision. Sure sounds as though the only two options are a Red Sox extension/renegotiation or free agency. Playing under the current contract doesn't appear likely.
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Boras was not similarly restrained when the hosts raised the topic of Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez, another prominent opt-out candidate. Though he didn’t specifically address the opt-out decision (three years, $62.5MM in his case), Boras left little doubt that he has begun compiling talking points on the slugger.
Martinez, per Boras, is “one of the top 5 offensive players in the game … and that is the vision of J.D. Martinez that I believe all teams have.” But the premium hitter is not a bat-only player, says his agent. He’s in the lineup every day and “plays forty or fifty games in the outfield,” says Boras. “I don’t think teams would in any way view J.D. Martinez as a DH,” adds the always-entertaining player rep, who also emphasized Martinez’s leadership and provision of hitting information and “intensity” to teammates.
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If Sox ownership is truly interested in shedding salary (and signing Mookie), can they afford to go through this process with JD?