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Martinez finished the season with a .282 batting average, and reached career highs of 33 doubles, 38 home runs and 102 RBI. His 38 home runs marked the third-highest total by a Tigers outfielder, trailing only Rocky Colavito's 45 in 1961 and Hank Greenberg's 41 in 1940. Martinez's 102 RBIs marked the most by a Tiger outfielder since Magglio Ordóñez drove in 103 in 2008.
In a road game versus the Baltimore Orioles on May 7, he hit his 200th career home run. At the end of June, he had a .298 average with 18 home runs and 47 RBIs. Martinez was selected as a reserve designated hitter to the 2019 All-Star Game.
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He was second on the club in batting, slugging percentage (.553), and OPS, and third in home runs. He was named a finalist for the MLBPA's Players Choice Award for AL Comeback Player of the Year. Martinez was awarded the American League Player of the Week Award for the period ending June 22, 2014. He batted .444 (12-for-27) with three doubles, four home runs , 11 RBIs, and six runs scored in seven games to win his first career weekly honor.
May 6, 2013 Houston Astros activated LF J.D. Martinez from the 15-day disabled list. August 3, 2016 Detroit Tigers activated RF J.D. Martinez from the 15-day disabled list. March 31, 2017 Detroit Tigers placed RF J.D. Martinez on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to March 30, 2017.
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JD Martinez has been one of the most underrated hitters in the MLB for a long time. Whatever team he has found himself on throughout his career, he has always been able to present an offensive threat. LOS ANGELES -- When he walked to the plate in the ninth inning Monday night at Dodger Stadium, three home runs already under his belt, D-backs outfielder J.D. Martinez couldn't help thinking of the last time he was in that situation. Martinez’s three-run homer left his bat at 108.4 mph and traveled 420 feet into the center field bleachers to put Boston ahead 3-1 in the third inning. Four of the Brewers’ top five prospects in MLB.com’s rankings are outfielders.
Topping the list is Jackson Chourio, an 18-year-old out of Venezuela who is almost certainly untouchable. Right behind him is Sal Frelick, the 15th pick in the 2021 draft and another player the Brewers are unlikely to move. Brantley returned to the Astros that winter on a two-year, $32 million deal.
Career Regular Season
Following the 2015 season, Martinez was awarded his first career Silver Slugger Award. He was named the 2015 Tiger of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. In 62 games with Arizona, Martinez hit .302 with 29 home runs and 65 RBIs. His combined achievements with Detroit and Arizona in 2017 included a .303 batting average in 119 games played and new career-highs in each of 45 home runs, 104 RBI, .376 OBP, and eight intentional walks. He was second in the major leagues in OPS (1.066), third in home runs, fourth in OPS+ , and sixth in adjusted batting runs .
In 2018, they were the two best hitters on a Red Sox team that defeated the Dodgers in the World Series. Before his stint in Boston, Martinez played part of one season with the Arizona Diamondbacks, hitting four home runs in a September 2017 game against the Dodgers. For the past several years, I’ve been among those complaining that too many teams are rebuilding, damaging the competitive integrity of the sport.
Amateur career
Martinez was named the Detroit Tigers' Player of the Month for June, posting a .345 average with nine doubles, seven home runs and 21 RBI, including a career-high 14 game hit streak. He tied for third place in the American League in home runs. Since joining the Tigers in 2014 until the end of the 2017 season, Martínez hit the 10th-most home runs in baseball while taking the second-fewest plate appearances of the top 20 home runs hitters. His slugging percentage trailed only Mike Trout, and he ranked in the top five in wOBA and wRC+, while batting .300 and .362 OBP. His .690 slugging percentage in 2017 led all MLB hitters by 59 points before adding hitless plate appearances to qualify.
After the season, Martinez became a free agent for the first time of his career. Instead, Martinez attended Nova Southeastern University , where he played college baseball for the Sharks from 2007 through 2009. He set the school's career record for home runs with 32, ranked second in batting average (.394), third in runs batted in , and fourth in slugging percentage (.691). In 2009, he batted .428 with 15 home runs and set a program record with 73 runs scored. He was a two-time All-Sunshine State Conference baseball player. While visiting the Seattle Mariners on March 31, 2019, Martinez homered for his 1,000th career hit, walked twice and collected four RBIs.
His OPS, batting average and home run and RBIs totals have declined in every full season since. He also had one of the higher strikeout and whiff rates in the majors last season, ranking among the top third in both among qualified big league hitters. Martinez became just the 18th player in MLB history to hit four homers in a game. Scooter Gennett did it for the Reds earlier this year, making 2017 the first time since '02 when the feat had been accomplished twice in the same season.
For the season, Martinez batted .304 with 36 home runs and 105 RBIs. He had the highest batting average against left-handers of all major league batters with 100 or more at bats against them (.404). He had the lowest Soft Contact Percentage of all American League batters, at 10.2%.
On April 13, 2012, Martinez hit the first ever home run in the new Marlins Park. With a runner on in the eighth, he hit an Edward Mujica offering into the Clevelander bar beyond the left-field wall for a game-tying home run. The Houston Astros selected Martinez in the 20th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft with the 611th overall selection. He was signed by Greg Brown, who later became the head coach at NSU. That is the most XBH by any player in his first 8 games of the season in American League history.
The Orioles like the idea of pairing their right-handed hitting infielders, Mateo and Ramón Urías, with their left-handed hitting options, Gunnar Henderson and Adam Frazier. The additional depth at second, short and third will enable them not only to mix and match, but also to get each player sufficient rest. Then again, the O’s also will have three middle-infield prospects at Triple A, Jordan Westburg, Joey Ortiz and Connor Norby. The team is bound to move some of its infielders eventually. The Twins, Braves, Red Sox and Dodgers all lost shortstops on the open market. A native of Miami, Florida, Martinez attended Nova Southeastern University before the Astros selected him in the 20th round with the 611th pick in the 2009 amateur draft.
Forbes magazine ranked Martinez as the world's 94th highest-paid athlete in 2019, totaling $25.6 million ($27.1 million today) in projected earnings. During a Spring Training game on March 18, 2017, Martinez left the game with an apparent foot injury. One week later, on March 25, further tests revealed that there was a lisfranc sprain in his right foot.
Martinez has been putting together good at-bat after good at-bat since joining the D-backs prior to the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline. The four homers gave him 34 for the season, 18 of which have come in 144 at-bats for Arizona. May 6, 2011 Corpus Christi Hooks placed LF J.D. Martinez on the 7-day disabled list.
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