Ken Rosenthal has reported that J.D. Martinez "is fed up with the [Boston] Red Sox inflexibility" during contract negotiations, but Scott Boras says the two sides remain in contact.

Boras made it clear that while the two sides are still negotiating, Martinez is also willing to begin spring training without a contract.

"The dialogue is ongoing, we have not reached any kind of agreement," Boras said. "Particularly for position players, these guys are in great shape, they're ready to go. I realize the traditional timetables are not relevant in today's free agency, due to the fact that we have the disruption of major league franchises by tanking, and a sale to a [group in Miami] that is more interested in paying off their debt service rather than competing. You have major interruptions where you have … major stars flooded into the trade market.

"The market just began."