Yankees: How is Red Sox slugger JD Martinez’s downfall not getting more coverage?

Yankees fans should be enraged JD Martinez’s awful season for the Red Sox is flying under the radar.

Look, we get it. It’s not exactly easy for the Boston Red Sox to come to work every day thrilled out of their minds to play baseball after their ace underwent season-ending surgery and the team traded away its best player.

But that doesn’t mean you completely flatline and make a mockery of the sport. It’s clear the Red Sox chose to tank during the shortened edition of 2020, which is fine, because there’s really no better time to tank, but what’s frustrating is that we still have the classic Boston behavior.

They’re insufferable, endless trash-talkers when they’re winning, and then claim “it’s all a part of the plan” and “they don’t care” when they’re losing, regardless of the circumstances. This team could still have the entire 2018 roster and make the same excuses.

But New York Yankees fans aren’t going to let it slide — oh no. We will NOT let JD Martinez’s poor excuse for a 2020 campaign continue to fly under the radar simply because he does have “access” to a “video room,” which has apparently hindered his ability to … hit a fastball?

Let’s try and rationalize a career-worst stretch of hitting from someone who just had his career-best season in 2018. Martinez is losing his grip on his mechanics after hitting 134 home runs and 339 RBI from 2017-2019? We know the shortened season has had an adverse effect on many players, but this happening to someone of Martinez’s stature deserves more attention and WAY more ridicule, especially after all the laughing other fans do at the Yankees for being unable to stay healthy.

The undeserving double Silver Slugger winner from 2018 is slashing .206/.289/.261 with 16 runs scored, 5 home runs and 22 RBI in 47 games. Now, all of a sudden, he can’t hit fastballs in what is a very disadvantaged season for pitchers, who got the short end of the stick with the abrupt stop to the start of the year.

This is supposed to be a team leader, no matter the unfortunate circumstances. Just IMAGINE the media coverage if this were happening to Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton. But this is Boston, so it’s a different story.

The team doesn’t care. The fans don’t care. So we guess the media doesn’t care either. Burn the world down when things are going well and silently slip into the abyss when things are going terribly: the Boston way.

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