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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Effects of a dry-land strengthening exercise program with elastic bands following the Kabat D2 diagonal flexion pattern for the prevention of shoulder injuries in swimmers by Ivan Della Tommasina, Alfonso Trinidad-Morales, Pedro Martínez-Lozano, Ángel González-de-la-Flor, José Ángel Del-Blanco-Muñiz
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Electrical Resistivity Tomography as a Support Tool for Physicochemical Properties Assessment of Near-Surface Waste Materials in a Mining Tailing Pond (El Gorguel, SE Spain) by María Gabarrón, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Marcos A. Martínez-Segura, María C. Bueso, Silvia Martínez-Martínez, Ángel Faz, José A. Acosta
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Potential of Antifungal Proteins (AFPs) to Control <i>Penicillium</i> Postharvest Fruit Decay by Mónica Gandía, Anant Kakar, Moisés Giner-Llorca, Jeanett Holzknecht, Pedro Martínez-Culebras, László Galgóczy, Florentine Marx, Jose F. Marcos, Paloma Manzanares
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Abandoned Mine Tailings Affecting Riverbed Sediments in the Cartagena–La Union District, Mediterranean Coastal Area (Spain) by Tomás Martín-Crespo, David Gómez-Ortiz, Silvia Martín-Velázquez, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Cristina de Ignacio-San José, Javier Lillo, Ángel Faz
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Integration of Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Seismic Refraction Tomography to Investigate Subsiding Sinkholes in Karst Areas by Oussama Jabrane, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Marcos A. Martínez-Segura, Francisco Javier Alcalá, Driss El Azzab, Marco D. Vásconez-Maza, Mohammed Charroud
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Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome: <i>PTCH1</i> Mutation Profile and Expression of Genes Involved in the Hedgehog Pathway in Argentinian Patients by Maria Florencia Martinez, Maria Vanesa Romano, Alfredo Pedro Martinez, Abel González, Carolina Muchnik, Fernando Miguel Stengel, Luis Daniel Mazzuoccolo, Pablo Javier Azurmendi
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Gene Expression Analysis of Induced <i>Plum pox virus</i> (Sharka) Resistance in Peach (<i>Prunus persica</i>) by Almond (<i>P. dulcis</i>) Grafting by Manuel Rubio, Pedro J. Martínez-García, Azam Nikbakht-Dehkordi, Ángela S. Prudencio, Eva M. Gómez, Bernardo Rodamilans, Federico Dicenta, Juan A. García, Pedro Martínez-Gómez
Published 2021-03-01
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Development of a Multipurpose Core Collection of New Promising Iranian Pomegranate (<i>Punica granatum</i> L.) Genotypes Based on Morphological and Pomological Traits by Sara Razi, Ali Soleimani, Mehrshad Zeinalabedini, Mohammad Reza Vazifeshenas, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Asghar Mohsenzade Kermani, Ahmad Reza Raiszadeh, Mostafa Tayari, Pedro José Martínez-García
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An Initial Framework for Understanding the Resilience of Aquifers to Groundwater Pumping by África de la Hera-Portillo, Julio López-Gutiérrez, Beatriz Mayor, Elena López-Gunn, Hans Jørgen Henriksen, Ryle Nørskov Gejl, Pedro Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro Martínez-Santos
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CRISPR/Cas as a Genome-Editing Technique in Fruit Tree Breeding by Marina Martín-Valmaseda, Sama Rahimi Devin, Germán Ortuño-Hernández, Cristian Pérez-Caselles, Sayyed Mohammad Ehsan Mahdavi, Geza Bujdoso, Juan Alfonso Salazar, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Nuria Alburquerque
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Median Nerve Neural Mobilization Adds No Additional Benefit When Combined with Cervical Lateral Glide in the Treatment of Neck Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Daniel Martin-Vera, Josué Fernández-Carnero, David Rodríguez-Sanz, Cesar Calvo-Lobo, Ibai López-de-Uralde-Villanueva, Alberto Arribas-Romano, Pedro Martínez-Lozano, Daniel Pecos-Martín
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Static Liquefaction Causes the Flow Failure of a Tailings Dam: A Case Study of El Descargador, Cartagena–La Unión Mining Region, SE Spain (October 1963) by Roberto Rodríguez-Pacheco, Ana Vanesa Caparrós, Alberto Alcolea, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Marcos A. Martínez-Segura, Cristóbal García-García, Ángel Faz, Isaac Corral, Carles Roque, Mario Zarroca
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Renal Cell Carcinoma in a Pregnant Woman With Horseshoe Kidney by Anna Scavuzzo, Zael Santana Rios, Cristobal Diaz-Gomez, Beatriz Varguez Gonzalez, Victor Osornio-Sanchez, Edgar Bravo-Castro, Edgar Linden-Castro, Pedro Martinez-Cervera, Miguel Angel Jimenez-Rios
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Temporal Response to Drought Stress in Several <i>Prunus</i> Rootstocks and Wild Species by Pedro José Martínez-García, Jens Hartung, Felipe Pérez de los Cobos, Pablo Martínez-García, Sara Jalili, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Roldán, Manuel Rubio, Federico Dicenta, Pedro Martínez-Gómez
Published 2020-09-01
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Exploring Genome-Wide Diversity in the National Peach (<i>Prunus persica</i>) Germplasm Collection at CITA (Zaragoza, Spain) by Jorge Mas-Gómez, Celia M. Cantín, María Á. Moreno, Ángela S. Prudencio, Mar Gómez-Abajo, Luca Bianco, Michela Troggio, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Manuel Rubio, Pedro J. Martínez-García
Published 2021-03-01
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DNA metabarcoding on repeat: Sequencing data of marine macrobenthos are reproducible and robust across labs and protocols by Laure Van den Bulcke, Annelies De Backer, Jan Wittoeck, Kevin Beentjes, Sara Maes, Magdalini Christodoulou, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Rumakanta Sapkota, Berry Van der Hoorn, Anne Winding, Kris Hostens, Sofie Derycke
Published 2023-06-01
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