Scott Miller, Bleacher Report: "Big Man, Big Personality: The Oral History of David Ortiz's MLB Adventure":
David Ortiz: I got lucky that I bumped into Pedro Martinez in a restaurant in the Dominican Republic. We talked, he asked me how things were going and I said, "I just got released by Minnesota a couple of days ago." And he was like, "What? They must be out of their mind. You're the best hitter they've got. I'm going to call the Red Sox right now." He called the Red Sox, and two days later the Red Sox hired me.