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The operative word in our
David Ortiz headline is "could". Still not fully recovered from an Achilles injury that happened
nine months ago, the Red Sox DH is still not scheduled to even
begin extended Spring Training games—
although the team is targeting next Monday. The new 'rosy scenario' is that Papi could be back in the Boston lineup by the Royals series of April 19-21. This strikes us as extremely optimistic. Manager
John Farrell put it this way,
“When that rehab assignment begins remains to be seen, but we’re still hopeful of a target time frame of the third week of April.” We'll see.
