FORT MYERS -- David Ortiz was dressed in full uniform with a backward hat and coffee, giving pointers in the batting cage and nearby practice fields this morning.
Trailing him like a shadow was J.D. Martinez, the man tasked with filling the void left by Ortiz two years ago in the middle of the Red Sox’ lineup.
Martinez wasn’t sheepish about his efforts to soak up everything Ortiz had to say.
“To me, the moment you think you know it all you stop growing and you start dying, in a sense,” Martinez said. “I'm hungry for information.