According to this
Boston Globe article J. D. Martinez has been giving younger Red Sox players something that he did not get w/ the struggling, leaderless 2013 Astros team - and he is still chafing about it.
What J.D. Martinez remembers most about the 2013 season is not that he struggled mightily at the plate, or that his team, the Houston Astros, lost 111 games.
What aggravates him still, even five years later, is that not one teammate offered a hand to pull him out of the quicksand.....
"....I never forgot that, how I felt going through that,” Martinez said. “I always said to myself, ‘I’ll never be that person.’ I knew what it felt like. I would never wish that on anybody.....”
He has helped create a welcoming Red Sox clubhouse that is similar to the current
Astros clubhouse.
It might help to remind him about a few
2013 Astros facts, such as
1. "...at season’s end, their roster had an average age of 26.0 with 17 rookies....
2. Houston had 14 players make their Major League debuts in 2013."
There were not many vets to welcome that team.
