2023 Positional Preview: The DH Is Dead! Long Live The DH!

Welcome to Over the Monster’s 2023 Season Preview! Between now and Opening Day, we’ll be here to tell you anything and everything* you need to know about the upcoming season. Below is an installment in our Positional Preview Series, in which we do a deep dive on each positional group. Let’s get things started at third base.

* Well, not everything, but a lot of things. Trust us: you don’t actually want everything, anyway; a little hunger feeds the soul.

The Red Sox signed David Ortiz on January 22, 2003. Just over twenty years ago. And he was, essentially, the designated hitter (he’s also a race car driver) until the end of 2016. And things were good. In 2017. The Sox followed many teams…