Yu Darvish was the ace in Texas when Nick Martinez made his debut with the Rangers in 2014.
He was the ace in San Diego when Martinez returned from Japan to join the Padres’ pitching staff in 2022. Consider that one of a hundred reasons Nick Martinez will be amped when he steps on the mound at Petco Park on Tuesday evening, this time as a peer turned foe with the Cincinnati Reds. The biggest reason: Martinez is still Martinez, Red Bulls and all. “I’ve been crushing them,” Martinez said with a laugh in the visiting clubhouse on Monday afternoon. “Nothing’s changed.” Well, yes and no.
And again, Martinez’s two-year, $26 million deal includes an opt-out after this season. “I always gave the Padres the first crack at it,” Martinez said. “Cincinnati came in and showed a lot of interest early and often and that's comforting for a player, that a team wants you that bad.” That changes nothing about Martinez’s feelings about the mound he’s stepping onto Tuesday. “I absolutely loved my time here,” Martinez said. “It was a really cool chapter in my career.
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