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David Ortiz should play on: designated hitters are as good as retired anyway

Big Papi was supposedly done in 2009 after two subpar seasons. Seven years later, he’ll get MVP votes. If he’s hitting like this at 40, why can’t he do it at 45?No one cares about the gifts. So what that the Astros gave David Ortiz a cowboy hat and the Royals some barbecue sauce and the Twins some peanut butter and the Mariners 34lbs of salmon. Ortiz shouldn’t not come back because he’s worried the Padres will be upset they bought him a surfboard as a retirement gift and then he didn’t retire. They probably still have the receipt. “I thought a lot about it,” Ortiz said in November 2015, announcing this would be his final season after back-to-back last...

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