COMMENTARY
Someone is going. John Henry decided that for his Red Sox long before Monday. All J.D. Martinez’s opt-in for 2020 did in that regard was close an avenue where it could be painted some form of involuntary.
Of course, the idea one of the biggest revenue teams in baseball can’t ante up for any bidding war is specious, but reality is often just this: What the writer of the checks tells you it is. Let us all be reminded of that again, and how this sport has changed, good or bad.
Two years ago this week, ESPN reported Boras and Martinez, about to play his age-30 season, were shooting for $200 million in free agency.