{"id":346526,"date":"2025-12-15T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346526\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:23:08","slug":"former-red-sox-pitcher-changes-plans-on-retirement-for-2026-mlb-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346526\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Red Sox pitcher changes plans on retirement for 2026 MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Red Sox pitcher changes plans on retirement for 2026 MLB season<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chris Martin was expected to retire at the end of the 2025 MLB season.<\/p>\n

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Instead, he looks like he’ll be back in 2026, according to a report from MassLive’s Chris Cotillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

After those two seasons with the Red Sox, Martin went to the Texas Rangers<\/a> on a $5.5 million contract in 2025.<\/p>\n

He was great, putting up a 2.98 ERA in 42.1 innings pitched out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

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Martin went on the Injured List multiple times, though — for right shoulder fatigue, a left calf strain, and a thoracic outlet syndrome diagnosis in September.<\/p>\n

He’ll turn 40 in June, so Martin’s days have to be numbered. Apparently, though, he doesn’t want to hang the spikes up yet.<\/p>\n

Martin entered pro baseball originally as a 21st-round pick of the Colorado Rockies<\/a> in 2005 out of McLennan Community College.<\/p>\n

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

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Martin has a career 3.33 ERA in 418 MLB appearances. And it sounds like he’ll be getting on a big league mound again in 2026.<\/p>\n

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