Mets Merized Online » Victor Martinez http://metsmerizedonline.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:41:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Here Comes The Throw, Here Comes The Play At The Plate… Not. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/04/here-comes-the-throw-here-comes-the-play-at-the-plate-not.html http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/04/here-comes-the-throw-here-comes-the-play-at-the-plate-not.html#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:57:28 +0000 Craig Lerner http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=116342 victor martinez

For those of you that missed it, there was a strange play that took place during the Detroit Tigers’ 7-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Quite frankly, I’ve never seen anything like it before. Here’s what happened along with the accompanying video from MLB.com.

During the third inning with the Tigers trailing 4-2 and base runners Prince Fielder on third and Victor Martinez at second, Jhonny Peralta lined a single to right field to score Prince Fielder. It should have ended there, but Martinez rounded third and started chugging to third, opting to test the powerful arm of Jeff Francoeur.

The former Met fired a bullet to home that essentially made Martinez a dead duck. But instead of trying to barrel over Royals catcher Salvador Perez who had the plate blocked and was waiting for the slow-footed Tigers DH to make contact. Only a few feet from home plate, Martinez suddenly decides to make a hard right turn and proceeds to head to the dugout. The home plate umpire ruled Martinez out for running outside the baseline and there was never a play at the plate.

There’s something seriously wrong here. I get that the oft-injured Victor Martinez was probably thinking of trying to avoid another stint on the DL, but still… There’s something wrong here. Seems like fans were denied a good old-fashioned baseball staple – the play at the plate.

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Bob Nightengale of USA Today has tweeted:

The Red Sox are about to acquire Victor Martinez from Indians

This has been confirmed by MLB Network.

I’m surprised that Victor Martinez isn’t a Met. He seems to fit the mold of everything the Mets could use right now.

  • He can catch and play first base.
  • He’s a switch hitter who makes great contact and has a high OBP.
  • Has a great line drive swing with good power that would play well at CitiField.
  • He’s a team leader with a bulldog mentality.
  • He comes with a 2010 option for a mere $7 million dollars.

Too bad…

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Jon Heyman of SI.com just said on SNY that he believes that the Mets have turned down an offer from the Indians for All Star catcher Victor Martinez.

The 30 year old Martinez, has been rumored to be on the trading block all month and if this is true I would be very interested in knowing why and who the other players in the deal were.

I’m actually quite surprised that Omar would turn down the opportunity to acquire such a major talent that would be under the teams control through the 2011 season.

Before the game, while Omar was offering his apology to a gathering of reporters, Minaya said,

“I’ve been talking to teams. I turned down a couple of trades yesterday. Believe it or not, we had some pretty big names that were presented. I’ve been talking to teams; and just before I got up here I had my assistant call a club.”

Victor Martinez is having a great season, and I do hope they are still negotiating for him. Here are his stats:

2009 Season Stats
SPLITS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Season 99 377 56 107 21 1 15 67 51 51 0 0 .284 .368 .464 .832
Career 821 3035 413 900 191 2 103 518 347 407 1 3 .297 .369 .463 .832
Last 7 days 6 23 1 4 0 0 1 6 4 4 0 0 .174 .321 .304 .626
Projected 159 605 90 172 34 2 24 108 82 82 0 0 .284 .368 .464 .832

Look at that OBP and OPS… And he’s a career .297 hitter.

6:55 UPDATE: I spoke to a reliable source who believes that Brad Holt was in the deal, and he believes that Wilmer Flores was the second player in the deal, but that it could be Jenrry Mejia. Either way, I’m jumping on this.

7:00 UPDATE: I spoke to someone who works for the Yankees and he tells me that Jenrry Mejia was the key player in the deal.

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