More Ortiz data:
He is one of three players ever behind Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds to hit 500 home runs and 600 doubles.
He was a great clutch hitter. The two players who have finished their careers with more regular season walk-off hits than Ortiz currently has are Frank Robinson (26) and Dusty Baker (21). Robinson retired in 1976 and Baker in 1986, and no one besides Ortiz has come close to their totals in the last 30 years. Also, neither Robinson nor Baker ever had a walk-off in the postseason. In fact no player has ever had more than two playoff walk-offs in their career. Well, except for David Ortiz. He beat that record in one year when he had three in the 2004 playoffs and nearly single-handedly brought the Red Sox their first World Series title in 86 years. All in all he has four postseason walk-offs, twice as many as anyone ever.
Now 2004 we can argue but in 2013: Ortiz hit .688 in the 2013 World Series, the highest batting average in World Series history. The rest of the Red Sox hit a combined .169. Ortiz reached base 19 times in 25 plate appearances. The Sox wouldn’t have just lost the series without him, they would have been swept more than likely.