{"id":345969,"date":"2025-12-15T03:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T03:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:40:07","slug":"former-red-sox-pitcher-changes-plans-on-retirement-for-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345969\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Red Sox pitcher changes plans on retirement for 2026 MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Martin was expected to retire at the end of the 2025 MLB season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he looks like he&#8217;ll be back in 2026, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/2000316997280931971\" rel=\"nofollow\">report from MassLive&#8217;s Chris Cotillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cotillo added that the Red Sox would be interested in bringing Martin back after he spent time in Boston in both 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After those two seasons with the Red Sox, Martin went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> on a $5.5 million contract in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He was great, putting up a 2.98 ERA in 42.1 innings pitched out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/ncaa-football\/milwaukee-brewers\/news\/christian-yelich-creates-viral-post-new-puppy-tavon-austins-west-virginia-highlights\/7b3aed35e531df1587522912\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Yelich shows his puppy a proper appreciation of Tavon Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin went on the Injured List multiple times, though &#8212; for right shoulder fatigue, a left calf strain, and a thoracic outlet syndrome diagnosis in September.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll turn 40 in June, so Martin&#8217;s days have to be numbered. Apparently, though, he doesn&#8217;t want to hang the spikes up yet.<\/p>\n<p>Martin entered pro baseball originally as a 21st-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> in 2005 out of McLennan Community College.<\/p>\n<p>He has pitched for the Rockies, Yankees, Rangers, Braves, Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox and Rangers again, in addition to a stint in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has a career 3.33 ERA in 418 MLB appearances. And it sounds like he&#8217;ll be getting on a big league mound again in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Martin was expected to retire at the end of the 2025 MLB season.\u00a0 Instead, he looks like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-345969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}