Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to .As of 2023, Martínez's record of 219 wins and 100 losses places him tenth-highest in winning percentage in major league history and fifth-highest among pitchers with more than 2,000 career innings pitched. Martínez ended his career with an earned run average (ERA) of 2.93, among the lowest ever by a pitcher with at least 2,500 innings pitched since 1920. He reached the 3,000 strikeout mark in fewer innings than any pitcher except Randy Johnson and Max Scherzer; Martínez is the only pitcher other than Scherzer to compile over 3,000 career strikeouts with fewer than 3,000 innings pitched in his career. As of 2023, Martínez's career strikeout rate of 10.04 per nine innings ranks sixth all-time among pitchers with over 1,500 innings.
An eight-time All-Star, Martínez was at his peak from to , establishing himself as one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball history. He won three Cy Young Awards (1997, 1999, 2000) and was runner-up twice (1998, 2002), posting a cumulative record of 118–36 (.766) with a 2.20 ERA, while leading his league in ERA five times and in winning percentage and strikeouts three times each. In , Martínez was runner-up for the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award, after winning the pitching Triple Crown with a 23–4 record, 2.07 ERA, and 313 strikeouts, and—along with Johnson—joined Gaylord Perry in the rare feat of winning the Cy Young Award in both the American and National Leagues (a feat since accomplished by Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay, Max Scherzer, and Blake Snell). He recorded the second-lowest single-season Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) in the live ball era (1.39 in 1999), the second-lowest single-season WHIP total in major league history (0.737 in ), and the lowest single-season Adjusted ERA+ in major league history (291, also in 2000). Although his performance suffered a steep decline in 2004, Martínez ended the season memorably by helping the Red Sox end a long drought in winning their first World Series title in 86 years.
Officially listed at and , Martínez was unusually small for a modern-day power pitcher, and is believed to have been somewhat smaller than his officially listed height and weight. In his early 30s, injuries began to keep him off the field to an increasing extent, with his appearances and success dropping off sharply in his final seasons. Modern sabermetric analysis has strongly highlighted Martínez's achievements. As of 2023, his career strikeout-to-walk ratio, WHIP, and adjusted ERA+ are among the highest in major league history. Martínez dominated while pitching most often in a hitter-friendly ballpark and facing some of the toughest competition during the steroid era, which is generally thought to have favored batters. Many consider Martínez to be one of the greatest pitchers in major league history. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015 in his first year of eligibility, joining Juan Marichal as the second Dominican to be enshrined; his number (45) was retired by the Red Sox in a ceremony held two days after his Hall induction. Provided by Wikipedia
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Design, Synthesis and Gene Modulation Insights into Pigments Derived from Tryptophan-Betaxanthin, Which Act against Tumor Development in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> by Paula Henarejos-Escudero, Fernando F. Méndez-García, Samanta Hernández-García, Pedro Martínez-Rodríguez, Fernando Gandía-Herrero
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Contribution of Python-based BERT software for landslide monitoring using Electrical Resistivity Tomography datasets. A case study in Tghat-Fez (Morocco) by Oussama Jabrane, Driss El Azzab, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Marcos A. Martínez-Segura, Himi Mahjoub, Mohammed Charroud
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A new genus of Parastenocarididae Chappuis, 1940 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Amazonian Region, Brazil, with close affinity to Murunducaris Reid, 1994 by Paulo Henrique Costa Corgosinho, Carlos Eduardo Falavigna da Rocha, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Edinaldo Nelson dos Santos-Silva
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Genome assembly of the acoel flatworm <i>Symsagittifera roscoffensis</i>, a model for research on body plan evolution and photosymbiosis by Pedro Martinez, Kirill Ustyantsev, Mikhail Biryukov, Stijn Mouton, Liza Glasenburg, Simon G Sprecher, Xavier Bailly, Eugene Berezikov
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Orchard Management and Incorporation of Biochemical and Molecular Strategies for Improving Drought Tolerance in Fruit Tree Crops by Sama Rahimi Devin, Ángela S. Prudencio, Sayyed Mohammad Ehsan Mahdavi, Manuel Rubio, Pedro J. Martínez-García, Pedro Martínez-Gómez
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Highly structured populations of deep-sea copepods associated with hydrothermal vents across the Southwest Pacific, despite contrasting life history traits. by Coral Diaz-Recio Lorenzo, Tasnim Patel, Eve-Julie Arsenault-Pernet, Camille Poitrimol, Didier Jollivet, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Sabine Gollner
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De Novo Transcriptome Sequencing in Kiwifruit (<i>Actinidia chinensis</i> var. <i>deliciosa</i> (A Chev) Liang et Ferguson) and Development of Tissue-Specific Transcriptomic Resour... by Juan Alfonso Salazar, Cristian Vergara-Pulgar, Claudia Jorquera, Patricio Zapata, David Ruiz, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Rodrigo Infante, Claudio Meneses
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Molecular Bases of Fruit Quality in <i>Prunus</i> Species: An Integrated Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Metabolic Review with a Breeding Perspective by Beatriz E. García-Gómez, Juan A. Salazar, María Nicolás-Almansa, Mitra Razi, Manuel Rubio, David Ruiz, Pedro Martínez-Gómez
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Highly structured populations of deep-sea copepods associated with hydrothermal vents across the Southwest Pacific, despite contrasting life history traits by Coral Diaz-Recio Lorenzo, Tasnim Patel, Eve-Julie Arsenault-Pernet, Camille Poitrimol, Didier Jollivet, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Sabine Gollner
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