[Sport] David Ortiz: "I already did what I had to do for Cooperstown, I'm relaxed"

[EvKirito]

Next November, the name of David Ortiz will appear for the first time on the ballots of the writers who choose the members of the Hall of Fame. In a year it will be known if he is chosen for the class of 2022.

His thick record, built in 20 fictional seasons full of feats, augurs enormous chances of being chosen in the first round, in addition to the fact that he only played defense in 12% of his 2,408 games. .286 / .380 / .552 offensive line, 541 home runs, 632 doubles, 1768 RBIs and 55.3 wins over replacement player. Add to that three World Series titles, 10 All-Star appearances and seven Silver Bats.

"Nerves? No, my nerves were when I was on the field (laughs). I'm relaxed, I already did what I had to do, now that they (the voters) play it, you understand me. Literally, you know that you do your errands while you play, you try to, when they give you the opportunity to take advantage of it, ”Ortiz said while visiting DL.

David is straightforward, four years after his last game, his love for the game and his commitments to Fox as a commentator and Red Sox advisor force him to keep up.

 

 

"To tell the truth, Cooperstown is the maximum, it is the top, it is where ... I do not think that all players dream of going to Cooperstown because of how difficult it is to get in, most players do dream of having a nice career, You know, we can play big for at least ten years, give your family a lifestyle and after all that stuff, you come to think of Cooperstown, ”says Big Papi.

“Yeah, because Cooperstown man, hey, baseball is over 100 years old and how many (members) it has. We only have three Dominicans, from all the years and good players who have passed through here, do you understand me? From the 90s and 2000s, now we are going to have a couple more, but it is not easy to enter Cooperstown ", he insists Ortiz, Most Valuable Player in two World Series (2004 and 2013).

Edgar Martinez's choice as a designated hitter in the class of 2019 is a benchmark for setting Ortiz's options as a designated hitter. The Puerto Rican was chosen at his last chance, but his career did not have the trappings of the escogidista.

“I understand that I put good numbers, I did everything a player would like to do during his stay, lead, produce, help, zero distraction, zero problems, zero headaches for the organization to which he belongs, I put that package together .. . without realizing it, but I put it together, "he says.

However, he clarifies that it is not a subject that haunts him. "But in my hypothetical case, I am literally going to tell you that that does not take my sleep away, I bring up the Cooperstown issue when personalities like you bring it to the table," says Ortiz.

It will be complicated
Ortiz made a fortune of $ 159 million in salaries and is still today a dollar manufacturer with advertising deals. He defends his colleagues as the one who pays the most, but understands that the money paid today can reduce the number of immortals in the future.

“I understand that from now on, with all the talent that is in the Major Leagues right now, they are going to enter less (the Hall of Fame). Sure old man, because I am telling you the truth. There is a pod that is called you stay rabid and another that is when they take away your hunger. But come here! If at age 20 they give me 300 million dollars at 32 how hungry I am going to be. That influences the game a lot, believe it or not, on top of that you already see the handling of the Major League teams with the new players now that they want the boys to be in the Major Leagues at 18 years old, "he said.

"So what's up? In the human being there is a maturity that begins after the age of 30. A kid that you know that the vast majority of us do not come from a family that directs us, that tells us 'the pod is this way, it's there', you give him fame and money at age, suppose you, from 19 years old, these kids are millionaires now at 16 when they sign it, do you understand? Between those four years, those who take four, because I am seeing that they are rising from 19, 20 as too much, they come, the one who They add a bit of nonsense, it depends on the mentality of the boy in that transition, then after there he comes, 'you know what, what we gave you four years ago, I go back and repeat, do not confuse me that I am not against That, for me to the players who give all the rooms in the world, what I am talking about is a career that for you to sound in Cooperstown you have to play at least 16 years of consistency, 16 years of consistency, to put your hand " Ortiz said.

On the change in attitude

“When I reached 30 I said 'wait, I have to change something to play until I'm 40, but I was still hungry, I wanted to keep looking for rooms because it was not that they gave me all those rooms at the beginning, I was hungry there, but many times when you have 300 million dollars in the bank and you are 32 years old and you understand that you have played ball all your life, I am going to zero miles, which is the poor decision that many of the boys make. That is why I understand that when you in the next 20 years when you go to talk about numbers of a guy who has it to be able to belong to Cooperstown it will be difficult for you, not because maybe they do not see it from that point of view. view, but because of what the game is dragging forward. But in my hypothetical case, I am literally going to tell you that it does not take my sleep away from that, I bring up the subject of Cooperstown when personalities like you bring it to the table. Now that people know that I am going to enter the ticket, I imagine that they will touch me on the subject more.