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The Latest David Ortiz News Sportspyder

Bonisiwe Shabane
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the latest david ortiz news sportspyder

The Boston Red Sox had an interesting season last year. It all started with the Rafael Devers drama, and once he was traded, the team was able to focus fully on baseball again. Even though Devers didn’t want to be just a DH, he was putting up strong numbers before the trade. “It took Devers a while to settle into DH duties, but lately, he's been thriving. He's coming off a nine-game stretch with an OPS over 1.200, but now, his position has once again become a topic of conversation,” SI’s Jackson Roberts wrote. In an interview on the ITM Podcast, Hall of Famer David Ortiz made it clear he hopes the Red Sox sign Pete Alonso over Kyle Schwarber as the team’s next DH.

“Either way you can be satisfied," Ortiz told Joey Copponi and Scott Neville on the "ITM Podcast" on Friday. "You're talking about two monsters. But if I had to pick one, because I have Roman Anthony as a left-handed batter, I would go with a right-handed bat. There are a lot of left-handed power pitchers coming out of the bullpen. Which with these guys, they don't really care. But you know (opponents) are going to be doing the match-ups.

When you have two lefties, one behind the other. I think we've loaded up really well with lefties. One right-handed power hitter to take advantage of the monster, it'll be a plus.” While Alonso has spent his entire career with the New York Mets, his comments during the season suggest he isn’t necessarily thinking about leaving. The Boston Red Sox have several big items on their to-do list this winter, including adding a frontline starting pitcher and a middle-of-the-order bat. The Red Sox could still use a marquee slugger after trading Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in June, leaving a considerable hole in the middle of their lineup.

They went from ninth in home runs before the trade to 23rd in homers without him. Before Devers debuted in 2017, David Ortiz filled that role from 2003 to 2016. He filled it so well, in fact, that he now has a plaque hanging in Cooperstown. Ortiz usually had plenty of help, too, teaming up with Manny Ramirez from 2003 to 2008 to form one of the most lethal 1-2 punches in baseball. Boston hasn’t had a combination like that in a while, but Ortiz would like to see his old team add some more thump to its lineup. The Boston Red Sox are missing a David Ortiz-like presence in the middle of the order.

Ortiz has been gone for nearly a full decade, and though Rafael Devers was never quite Ortiz, he was a very good slugger in his own right. And with Devers in San Francisco, the Red Sox hit the 23rd-most home runs in the majors from June 16 onward this past season. The two names that have floated around most consistently as fits to fit into the middle of the order and blast 35-plus home runs for the Red Sox next season are Kyle Schwarber and... Either would make a great addition, but if the Red Sox can afford one, it's worth discussing which would be the better fit. If you like our content, choose Sports Illustrated as a preferred source on Google. As it turns out, Ortiz himself has some thoughts on the matter.

He's rocking with Alonso as the stronger Red Sox fit for lineup balance, though if Alex Bregman re-signs, he doesn't have a strong feeling either way.

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