Dan Shaughnessy has some friendly advice for J.D. Martinez on playing in Boston

J.D. Martinez during the 2017 season.FORT MYERS, Fla. — There was great energy in the Red Sox clubhouse at JetBlue Park Wednesday morning. J.D. Martinez was in the house, getting a physical and waiting for Scott Boras to arrive. The locker room was positively buoyant as David Price and his Richie Havens beard held court in one corner while other players chatted in front of their stalls.

ESPN and MLB Network were on hand, as were a handful of New York reporters. It felt like the old days as national media legends Gammons, Kurkjian, and Mendoza finally found their way back to the center of the baseball universe.

On a table in the middle of the room was a copy of Wednesday’s USA Today,…