Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez
Pedro Jaime Martínez,, is a Dominican–American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five teams from 1992 to 2009, most notably the Boston Red Sox. From 2002 to 2006 he held the major league record for the highest career winning percentage by a pitcher with at least 200 decisions; with a final record of 219 wins and 100 losses, he retired with the fourth highest percentage in history, and the highest by a right-hander since the modern...
NationalityDominican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth25 October 1971
CitySanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
CountryDominica
I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.
I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.
Baseball is a game of the soul.
We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.
I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility.
I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there -- I really want to win; I hate losing -- and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.