Those things barely begin to scratch the surface of the career of Pedro Martinez, one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball history and an unhittable force during the sport's most offense-oriented era.
He is in the Hall of Fame now, and there will be folks from Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia claiming they saw some amazing stuff from Pedro Martinez. But he is ours. We had Pedro for the wonderful, dominant, Koufaxian middle of his
I think often, at this time of year, of Pedro Martinez, the Red Sox pitcher who once responded to yet another postseason defeat at the hands of the Yankees by reminiscing about life in Santo Domingo. “Fifteen years ago, I was sitting under a mango tree
''Hang on,'' he says, ''I got to play with Pedro Martinez.'' The former Red Sox shortstop was already in Boston when the reigning NL Cy Young winner arrived from the Montreal Expos in 1997. And he saw the Dominican
A quartet of tremendous players from the '90s and 2000s will be going into the Hall this summer, as Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio were all elected to join the greats in Cooperstown. For the