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     It’s time to evaluate the preposterous season of David Ortiz at the age of 40 nearing 41. Everyone in sports should call into question his performance this season.
 

     It’s disproportionately out of the norm comparing to other 40 year old players in Major League Baseball history.
Ortiz OPS (1.047) is better than Mike Trout (.987).His numbers, measured against the most dynamic young player in the game are literally off the charts. With less then a month left in that 2016 schedule, Ortiz was being considered as the AL M.V.P. This was silly, there needed to be pressure by sports people and journalists to look past this nice guy teddy bear image.
 

     Look at his body of work in 2016 and compare him to the listed athletes between the ages of 39 and 41. It’s clear, these former players (listed below), did not have the type of season David Ortiz is having. (Variation of players and multiple era’s)
 

Age  Name        Ops   SLG  G  AVG  HR  2B  RBI
 

40-David Ortiz  1.047 .636 118 .321 30  40 100
39-Rod Carew  .717 .345 127 .280   6  17    67
39-Mike Schmidt  .668 .372 42  .203    6   7  28
40-Ken Griffey Jr..454 .204   3  .184     0  2    7
40-Alex Rodriguez .598 .351 65 .200    9  7  31
40-Derek Jeter   .617 .313  145 .256 15  32 77
40-Barry Bonds .1045 .565 126 .276 14 66 13
40-EdgarMartinez .895 .489 145 .294 24 25  98
40-Frank Thomas .387 .364 71 .263     8  7  30
40-George Brett   .746 .434 145 .266 19 31 75
40-C. Yastzremski .812 .462 105 .275 15 21 50
40-Reggie Jackson .787 .408 132 .241 18 12 58
40-Willie Mays     .482 .425 136 .271 18 24  61
40-Babe Ruth      .789 .431 28   .181   6   0 12
40-Hank Aaron    .832 .491 112 .268 20 16 69
40-Ted Williams   .791 .419 103 .254 10 15 43
(41)  T. Williams  1.096 .645 113 .316 29 15 72
 

     Ortiz’s stats should be called into question when compared to some of the all time greats mentioned above. Only 2 of the 15 are not     Hall of Famers. Bonds and Rodriguez PED use clouds their entry. Ortiz’s numbers are unheard-of, unless you’re Barry Bonds.
 

     The question must be asked, how the heck was Ortiz dominating the game? Was he juiced?  
 

     What was he taking and how he’s doing it?  I will say he’s been listed on the Mitchel Report that got uncovered. He’s been accused of taking PEDs 2 other times. Throughout his career in Minnesota and Boston his responses to PEDs and carrying multiple ID’s have been well documented as being defensive, side-stepping and disrespectful towards journalists. Ortiz is responsible for any usage of PEDs, but why isn’t anyone talking about this? Instead praising him for his 2016 success. Did anybody see what I was seeing? Did we forget? Why was he getting a free pass? It’s also disturbing and alarming the Boston Red Sox organization have been accused of promoting and educating players on the proper way to use PEDs.
 

    The Mitchel Report, named after former (Senator-Maine) George Mitchell, was criticized for having a conflict of interest with the report when he was a director of the Boston Red Sox. Granted, no Red Sox players were named in the report, however, Red Sox stars David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were later accused to have used PEDs during the 2003 season, as reported by the New York Times on July 30, 2009.
 

     Furthermore, Curt Schilling and Lou Merloni have spoken-out about how the Red Sox encouraged and pushed the usage of PEDs towards its players. Schilling said in a radio interview with Colin Cowerd that some in the Red Sox organization encouraged him to consider the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs to get back to playing shape. Schilling’s quote was: "At the end of my career, in 2008 when I had gotten hurt, there was a conversation that I was involved in which was brought to my attention that this is a potential path I might want to pursue.” Schilling further said the conversation occurred in the clubhouse which involved former Red Sox players. “It was an incredibly uncomfortable conversation. Because it came up in the midst of a group of people. The other people weren't in the conversation but they could clearly hear the conversation. And it was suggested to me that at my age and in my situation, why not? What did I have to lose? Because if I wasn't going to get healthy, it didn't matter. And if I did get healthy, great."
 

     Lou Merloni spoke about a team meeting in a 2009 interview about a doctor brought in by the team, teaching players how to use steroids the right way. Merloni's exact quotes, according to The Boston Globe, were: "I'm in Spring Training, and I got an 8:30-9:00 meeting in the morning. I walk into that office, and this happened while I was with the Boston Red Sox before this last regime, I'm sitting in the meeting. There's a doctor up there and he's talking about steroids, and everyone was like, 'Here we go, we're going to sit here and get the whole thing -- they're bad for you.' "No. He spins it and says, 'You know what? If you take steroids and sit on the couch all winter long, you can actually get stronger than someone who works out clean. If you're going to take steroids, one cycle won't hurt you; abusing steroids it will.' "He sat there for one hour and told us how to properly use steroids while I'm with the Boston Red Sox, sitting there with the rest of the organization, and after this I said, 'What the heck was that?' And everybody on the team was like, 'What was that?' And the response we got was, 'Well, we know guys are taking it, so we want to make sure they're taking it the right way.' Where did that come from? That didn't come from the Players Association."
 

     Another incident involving Ortiz and Latroy Hawkins, former pitcher, Twins teammate (1997-2002) when he got traded from Seattle to Minnesota. We all went out to dinner. I guess he wanted to order a drink and the lady asked for an ID and he pulled out, like, five different IDs. It was like, "Dude, what are you trying to do?" He was like, "Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it."
 

     If 2016 was the year of lies and cover-ups, David Ortiz career may be the biggest in the sports world. All the gifts from teams and praising his great season has many fooled or simply giving him a free pass. There was no way the media and sports could sit back and not question a 40-year-old baseball player's season stats as compared to his career stats then compare him to some of the game’s greatest. No way should he retire. Ortiz’s stats destroyed the legends mentioned above. Unless you’re Barry Bonds. Players' careers enter the twilight or the final curtain at 40. They’re just hanging-on for the most part. Ortiz seemed to be a sunrise with many playing years of ahead. His numbers were for those in their prime. But he’s retired and it was impossible for baseball to suspend him in his final year. David “Papi” Ortiz must have known this. So why not pump up for one final year. He has been protected by the establishment and ignored by majority of the media. It’s time to question his performance and not to look past the smiling fictional character.

Best shortstop ever to based off 4 categories, regular season, post-season, ambassador and career SS statistics. Look at these amazing facts about Jeter that adds to his elite SS status and separates himself from the pack. Statistics show Cal Ripken, Derek Jeter and Robin Yount are the best ever to play the position. But not the case.
 

   Cal Ripken and Robin Yount switched positions during their careers so their overall statistics drastically change if compared head to head at SS.  Ripken played his last 5 years at 3rd Base while Yount ended up playing centerfield his last 9 years.  Jeter played his entire career at SS. Below is the comparison:
 

Career-SS       AB      H        2B     RBI      HR      R    Gold Gloves
 

Jeter            11195  3465    544    1311     260   1902          5
 

Ripken           9219  2549    487    1369     353   1366          2
 

Yount             6049  1727    323      713     129    885           1
 

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