David Ortiz just recently started running as he comes back from an Achilles’ tendon injury that cost him most of last season, but Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington expects him to be ready for Opening Day.
Evan Drellich of MLB.com passes along quotes from an interview with MLB Network Radio in which the GM indicated that Ortiz may be limited at the beginning of spring training, but “we don’t have any reason to think he won’t be in our lineup on Opening Day.”
That comes after Cherington traveled to the Dominican Republic last week to meet with Ortiz, who re-signed on a two-year, $26 million deal that includes incentives based on how many days he’s on the active roster.
