Still, he had an OPS over 1.000 for Detroit too, and in hindsight, it's amazing that teams weren't blowing up Detroit GM Al Avila's phone. Martinez hit 29 homers and posted a ridiculous 1.107 OPS in 62 games for the Diamondbacks, posting 2.6 WAR after the trade. Granted, what Martinez did was so off the charts, no team can reasonably expect his kind of impact from a deadline deal. The question here when you look at what Martinez did for the Diamondbacks: Are we getting the trade deadline wrong? These two deals were microcosms of what seems to always be the case of what we see around the deadline, which is that teams are just more aggressive when it comes to adding pitching. 310/.345/.566 for Texas' Triple-A affiliate and finished the season in the major leagues. The prospects going to Texas were more alluring: Willie Calhoun, A.J. Meanwhile, the Dodgers landed Darvish very near the non-waiver trade deadline at the end of July. We set the lineup up how we had envisioned. "It came together over the course of about a week with Detroit. "We had isolated out a number of players that we were going to go scout and do work on," Diamondback GM Mike Hazen said last week. While many were critical of the Tigers' haul for Martinez, especially because it came nearly two weeks before the trade deadline, it was reflective of one thing: There wasn't a great in-season market for rental position players. The deal puzzled analysts, including ESPN's Keith Law, who had ranked the Diamondbacks' system last in his organizational ratings over the winter. The Tigers dealt Martinez to Arizona on July 18 for prospects Dawel Lugo, Jose King and Sergio Alcantara. The Tigers and Rangers both ended up as sellers at the deadline, though with the Rangers hanging in the American League wild-card race until late in the season, maybe they shouldn't have been. It's funny how things criss-cross and intersect over the course of the long baseball season. Martinez played for the Detroit Tigers then, while Darvish was toiling for the Texas Rangers. Martinez had three at-bats against Darvish on May 21, striking out twice and flying out to the wall in center. win in Phoenix.īefore that, Martinez had done nothing against Darvish, having managed a lone single in 10 at-bats and striking out six times. 10, Martinez homered off Darvish during an 8-6 L.A. They've squared off against each other for their current teams before. Martinez will step to the plate at Chase Field against Dodgers right-hander Yu Darvish.
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PHOENIX - During the course of Monday's National League Division Series Game 3 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, there will be a batter-pitcher matchup that signifies a little more than you might think.ĭuring the bottom of the first or the second, Diamondbacks slugger J.D.
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