FORT MYERS -- David Ortiz kept telling anybody who asked this offseason that the Red Sox were going to sign a big bat.
He thought they had to.
So when the Sox finally signed J.D. Martinez to a five-year contract on Monday, Ortiz was pleased.
“I’m in Miami now and everybody was like ‘When are we getting the big guy? When are we getting the big guy? When are we getting the big guy?’” Ortiz said Wednesday upon arriving at JetBlue Park. “And I’m just like, 'Relax man, it’s going to happen.' It’s a process, there are a lot of things involved especially when you give away that type of contract so there’s a lot of physical things and this and that.