BACK FROM JAPAN, MARTIN JOINS RANGERS
Source: American Association News
Onetime American Association rookie Chris Martin already has had what easily can be described as an amazing up and down career in baseball, including a brilliant major league debut at Yankee Stadium, and now after spending two seasons in Japan he is returning to the United States to try another comeback, this time pitching for the Texas Rangers. Now 31, the 6-foot-8 right-hander was drafted twice while still a teenager, although he did not sign either with Detroit or Colorado. He got hurt (torn labrum and some damage to the capsule in the shoulder), we reported on our blog, www.IndyBaseball Chatter, nearly two years ago. “I thought my career was done,” he told The Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune at the time. Martin worked in various jobs, occasionally playing softball or in a men’s baseball league, for nearly half a decade until his boss at one of those positions showed up one day with a catcher’s mitt and a glove for the Texas native. Martin wanted to try out for the Grand Prairie AirHogs in 2010, but “almost left the tryout”, the hurler told MLB.com at his introductory media conference with the Rangers this month. “There were a hundred guys there,” he…
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