MLB Rumors: J.D. Martinez and the Boston Red Sox are getting close to a deal, according to Jon Heyman. Boston has been widely expected to sign the free agent LF/DH, and it seemed like something was going to happen as far back as November, but instead, the weeks dragged on with no deal materializing until, it appears, now.
The only other team seriously linked to Martinez was the Arizona Diamondbacks, who traded for Martinez at the deadline last year, and who saw Martinez go nuts in his two months in the desert, putting up a .