When David Ortiz was playing with the Boston Red Sox, it was a golden time in the team's history. They won two World Series and won at least 90 games nine times.
The worst season in that stretch was 2012. They won 69 games and finished in last place in the American League East.
It was a year the team wanted to start over. In September 2011, they were ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays by nine games for the wild card, but lost 18 of their final 24 games to miss the playoffs. They fired manager Terry Francona and hired Bobby Valentine.