{"id":400316,"date":"2026-01-10T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400316\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:21:08","slug":"red-sox-seth-martinez-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400316\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox, Seth Martinez Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox agreed to a minor league contract with reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/martise01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seth Martinez<\/a>, as first reported by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByAndrewParker\/status\/2009732832889819445?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Parker of Sox Prospects<\/a>. He\u2019ll get a non-roster invitation to MLB camp.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez has pitched in the majors in five straight seasons. He got a decent amount of run in the Astros\u2019 middle relief corps from 2022-24. He didn\u2019t get as much big league work last year, only making it into six games for the Marlins. Martinez gave up four runs with three walks and four strikeouts across 6 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old righty spent the majority of the year with Miami\u2019s Triple-A club. He pitched to a 3.71 ERA behind a 29% strikeout rate over 43 2\/3 frames. Martinez routinely posts strong whiff numbers in the minors and has fanned more than 30% of opponents with a sub-3.00 ERA in five Triple-A seasons. His flat 4.00 earned run average and 20.5% strikeout percentage in 117 MLB appearances are more solid than great.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez only sits around 90 MPH with his fastball. He frequently relies on his breaking ball while mixing in a changeup. He\u2019s out of options, meaning the Sox would need to keep him on the big league roster or expose him to waivers if they call him up at any point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox agreed to a minor league contract with reliever\u00a0Seth Martinez, as first reported by Andrew Parker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,168879,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-400316","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-seth-martinez","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400316","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=400316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}