Whenever it ends, however it ends, Hanley Ramirez will not be remembered as one of the great free agent signings in Red Sox history.
That’s the bad news.
The good news? He’ll never be in the discussion when Sox fans sit around the campfire and tell spooky, late-night stories about the team’s worst free agent signings.
He’s not Carl Crawford. And he’s not Pablo Sandoval, though Ramirez and Sandoval are in some ways joined at the hip: They were both signed as free agents for the 2015 season, and they were both complete and utter and horrible busts out of the gate.