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Jonah Keri on the Red Sox going all in
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Red Sox icon David Ortiz of course retired following the 2016 season. Despite his dominating absence, the Red Sox are very well poised to contend for the championship in 2017.
That's in part due to the recent trade for lefty ace Chris Sale, a blockbuster that inspired Big Papi to tease us thus ...
Yep, that's an implicit reference to the possibility that he'll play in 2017 after all.