Teams are once again taking a slow approach to free agency and J.D. Martinez has had enough.

The Boston Red Sox slugger didn't land his own free-agent deal until Feb. 26 last season. He views the business of baseball as broken.

"One-hundred-percent," Martinez told WEEI.com. "I knew it was -- Why wouldn't it? They got away with it last year, why wouldn't they do it again? What's going to happen? Nothing. It's embarrassing for baseball, it really is. It's really embarrassing for the game. You have a business. They say, 'The market is down, the market is changing.' The market is higher than it's ever been. People are making more money than ever, and they're trying to suppress it. It's more of a race towards the bottom now than a race towards the top. You can go right now through everyone's lineup and you already know who's going to be in the playoffs. What's the fun in that? We might as well just fast-forward to the end of the season."