David Ortiz: Boom or Bust
In a Shutter Island-esque turn of events few baseball analysts saw coming, David Ortiz, who spent the first month of the season cooling off the Northeast shore with wild whiffs, has found his stroke as we head towards the Midsummer Classic. Pundits are now left scratching their heads who is this guy? Hardly a question one would expect concerning a veteran entering his 14th year of big league service. Through April, Red Sox fans and opposing fans alike were calling for Ortiz’s head as he slumped his way to a .143 average with only a solo long ball to boot. Critics worried his birth certificate is a fake and his old age was catching up to him, citing various other age discrepancies with Dominican born players. Other naysayers trudged up old Mitchell Report findings and cited harsher PED crackdowns as the root of his poor play. What a difference a month makes. Riding a .363 hitting May complemented by 10 homeruns, Big Papi has raised his average to a reasonable though not spectacular .252 with an impressive 12 HR’s on the season. Read the rest of this entry »
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