This doesn’t sound good especially for an injury that was originally deemed relatively minor.  He’s had a long time to recover….

Is Ortiz playing in Theatre of the Absurd?

A two year deal for a guy who wasn’t even healthy? What a joke this front office has become.

Of course he’s not worried.  He’s still getting paid either way!  Sox fans on the other hand….

 Goes to show how bad the free agents were this offseason.

Would anyone be surprised if this guy is limited all season? Starting to have that feel to it

Already had 5 months to heal, what is a few weeks going to do?  

What a useless, prima donna, over paid turd.

Five months off and still issues? This will be a lingering problem all season.

At least Ortiz has his excuse if he do play and has a subpar year. Should have never resigned this whiner. Spends the last couple of years constantly complaining about his contract. Then comes to camp and complains about the hitting protection around him. Now, the guy can’t even run the bases on consecutive days and is starting a new 2 year extention.

All because Larry and company were scared of what the pinkhat fans would think if they let him walk. I would be willing to bet if it wasn’t for the roids this guy would have been out of baseball 5 years ago.

What is the soreness from – he hasn’t done a darn thing yet!!!

1. were they (sox brass) dumb enough to believe ortiz would be healthy based on what ortiz told them?  
2. did they know of his ailments and still offered the contract to appease the fan base?
3. were they so desperate that they did not build in a minimum number of at bats or games played into the contract?
4. who were the “other” teams interested in signing Ortiz?  Did they have access to medical info?
5. Is anyone excited about Red Sox baseball this year? 

Good for David Ortiz . He is the luckiest man in the world. Instead of being out of baseball, he has 26 million dollars he shouldn’t have because he works for gutless, spineless, PR driven owners. They are so terrified of further bad publicly after the disaster of 2012 that they threw a ton of money at a guy who would not be on a MLB roster today.
Ortiz is a slow, aging, PED using,one dimensional DH whose career should be over. The only problem for the Red Sox is that his career is over …right now. Did Lucchino really think that another team was going to sign him?? Ortiz wins….Red Sox fans lose….Henry ,Werner ,Lucchino are still trying to convince the pink hats that this is a good team.

July 17, 2012 this injury happened. Since then we have heard how he’s a couple weeks away. I have had an achilles injury, and let me tell you that you are not back for about 2 years. And I’m not a professional athlete, I played league volleyball. Mine happened in my mid 20′s. Ortiz carries extra weight and is in his late 30′s, and they gave him 30 mil? Crazy. He is done, done I tell ya.

Ben got all sentimental and figured the Sox still owe Papi for the WS championships of 04 and 07.
Big mistake Ben, Papi has a contract and he will honor it in his….own…..due…..time….
See you in June suckers.
Milking it for all it’s worth.

Signing this over the hill juicer to a TWO year deal has the stink of the three stooges, Henry, Werner, and Lucchino all over it.  These clowns should quit while they’re ahead.

The contract Ortiz signed was mostly symbolic and more a reward for past glories and rightfully deserved really, however this appears to be the begining of the inevitable decline and begins to position Ortiz the player as a mostly symbolic totem of past glories..and with that in mind fans are probably better off scaling down their expectations accordingly.

I felt all along that this was going to be a problem.Ortiz played for 1 year contracts and felt that he was under paid.Could he have been deceptive to the FO on how his foot really felt? Did he justify taking 26 million because of past performance? I don’t know the answer but it is something i’m considering.

This happened last July and he is still sore. Not a good sign. Feet imortant part of hitting. Hopefully they protected themselves in the contract not like Schilling.

The city of Boston is know as the “medical capital of the world”. Why are we not using this to our advantage?  We appreciate what Daivd Ortiz has done for Red Sox nation. However, this was very predictable. We’re dealing with an aging player that has always been “overweight” to put it bluntly. We could have and should have made a change to the designated hitter position in the off season. Now we’re going to spend the next two years trying to fill in a position that is critical in the American league.

Ortiz does’nt have the body of a juicer period.If he used all that much he would have been caught’, or he would have been implicated as in the case of Arod and others.You don’t like him? Tough titty don’t make accusations that you cannot prove.

Dump that Yaz8 name,you are no Red Sox fan.Fair weather thats all guys like you are.

I read all the comments and they seem like scorned woman.Man up damn it.

Dennis is having a bad Monday, don’t hate on Yaz8, been Red Sox fan since I was old enough to read and understand a box score, about 1965.
Papi is a Sox legend, but if you want to accept the money, accept the responsibility.  Achilles injuries take a while to heal but damn man, since last July?  Do you remember how he hurt it?  He was on first base and somebody hits a homer, and he hurt it jogging the bases.  Ortiz has a responsibility to honor his contract, drop some weight and get fit.
Maybe Papi need man up, eh Dennis?

Stick a fork in the old dude…it’s over rover….see what happens when ballpalyers are denied their “suppliments”..LMAO…it would be funny if not so predictable..last place here we come!