From our Yesterday’s News Today desk

The jury is very much out on David Ortiz in the local dailies.

From Nick Cafardo’s piece in [Tuesday’s] Boston Globe:

Steady progress has David Ortiz feeling upbeat

FORT MYERS, Fla. — David Ortiz feels more optimistic that he’ll be in the Opening Day lineup after running the bases Monday and feeling as if he can manage the expected soreness in his Achilles’.

“It feels good,” Ortiz said. “When I get going I’m fine. The problem is once I cool off, I start to get sore, but the doctor said it will go away. It’s just part of the treatment, part of [when you] start doing things. The injury, you got to start getting used to. That’s why we practice over and over and over and over. So you can get to that point . . . it’s a good day. I was moving pretty good. I don’t think I can run faster than that. Let’s just see how things go later on tonight.”

Not so fast there, Big Guy . . .

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