After all the concerns coming into the year after his relative disaster of a 2020, J.D. Martinez just keeps hitting in 2021 as he continues to anchor this current Red Sox lineup through their surprising start. (Peter Abraham; Boston Globe)
Matt Barnes, who is also bouncing back from a rough 2020 in a huge and sort of out of nowhere fashion, has some memorabilia that rests on the same shelf as some from Nolan Ryan. (Christopher Smith; Mass Live)
For all of the successes early in this season up and down the roster on different positional groups, Garrett Whitlock is the favorite around here.