I get it if people are pro GO FOR IT NOW, but none of those highlights there are really deserving to be stressed in relationship to a JD Martinez signing.
Sure they are, if I’m reading your response correctly. Which I think is getting at the issue of whether signing JD Martinez is sensible and forward-thinking, even though he’ll command a ton of money. I think it is, if the Sox moves basically stop there on the FA market.
The Red Sox will need a big-power RH bat, even if Mookie takes a step forward again this upcoming season and Devers begins to develop into a power threat at age-21.
The Sox have a need to plan long-term around some 3-4-5 hitting core. Martinez can be part of that, as well as adding GFIN oomph. Ideally, you’d get hitters’ seasons to develop or bounce back in 2018 to create a high-octane offense.
Sure, he’ll be expensive, but if there’s nothing on the farm that looks likely to provide a RH balance of contact AND power (sorry, Chavis), then the team has to look at the FA and trade markets.
And especially if Betts and Bogaerts and Bradley are all less inclined to make longer-term deals to stay in Boston, it makes sense to at least have one middle-of-the-order bat who didn’t just play his rookie season.