Last November, slugger David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox said the 2016 Major League Baseball season would be his last.

As the man who was a key contributor to the Decade of the Sox, which includes three World Series championships from 2004 to 2013, Ortiz has been feted repeatedly as he makes his final appearances in various ballparks.

One problem here:

Ortiz, 40, is having far too good a season to walk away from the game.

To date, he is not (publicly) backtracking from his “I’m quitting” stance, even though he is killing the ball.

At this writing, “Big Papi” is first in baseball in slugging OPS (1.023), slugging (.619), and doubles (45).

He is fourth in the game in RBI (107), fifth in on-base percentage (.404), 11th in walks (77) and 15th in home runs (31).

Ballplayers don’t retire after they have put up those sorts of stats, but he continues with his farewell tour.

The consensus choice for “best final season” seems to be that of another Red Sox hitter, Ted Williams, in 1960, based on the Wins Above Replacement stat — 4.8.

Papi is not far behind that, at 4.2 WAR.

Meanwhile, the farewell tour continues.

Most-recent stop: Toronto, where the Blue Jays gave him a custom-made Canada Goose jacket, as well as donating $10,000 to the David Ortiz Children’s Fund.

Other gifts to Big Retiring Papi include, according to the Toronto Star, a king salmon from the Seattle Mariners, 50 Dominican cigars and a custom-made humidor from the Minnesota Twins, a surfboard from the San Diego Padres and a custom Stetson cowboy hat from the Houston Astros.

Despite his accepting the gifts, we have to think Ortiz will, eventually, sign to play another year … and if not with the Red Sox, then with some other American League team that will offer him lot of money. (And it has to be an AL team because Papi can’t play defense any more.)

In May, he gave a sign that a big enough dollar number might tempt him to return in 2017.

He told Yahoo.com: “I’m happy with the decision that I made … [but] I’ve got to wait until next year when I ain’t doing [expletive] to see how it’s gonna hit home. Because I’m not gonna lie to you, I don’t know.”

He added: “Hopefully, nobody comes to me and offers $25 million, either. … I don’t even want to talk about it. Like I said, I’m good with the decision that I made right now. But would you leave $25 million on the table? I don’t want nobody to offer me that.”

Looks like a fee has been set, then.

Ortiz is under contract with the Red Sox for another season, and he could get up to $16 million under the terms of that pact.

But the Sox apparently will need to up the ante to enjoy a 2017 Big Papi Farewell Tour, and after the numbers he has put up so far this season, they just might.