Pedro Martinez

[a700hitter]

Hope he does like Garciaparra and signs a one day contract to retire as a Red Sox

I am trying to understand the symbolism of the 1 day contract. I'm not criticizing you. Nomar and others have done this 1 day contract thing, but I just don't get it. Ten years from now people will look at Pedro's stats and see that he pitched his last game in the World Series for the Phillies. Bobby V talked about rooming with Tony C in the Padres organization attempting a comeback in Spring Training. I have no recollection of that and I can't find anything linking him to the Padres. Technically, I guess he retired as a Padre, but who would know. It would be meaningful if Pedro or Nomar for example took an AB or pitched to a batter while playing for the Sox the way Minnie Minosa took some token ABs to have played in a couple of additional decades. It would give the fans one last chance to say goodbye and it would be in the record books.

[boy racer]

No way he's coming back.... but he'd still be better than Wakefield.

[redsoxrules]

I am trying to understand the symbolism of the 1 day contract. I'm not criticizing you. Nomar and others have done this 1 day contract thing' date=' but I just don't get it. Ten years from now people will look at Pedro's stats and see that he pitched his last game in the World Series for the Phillies. Bobby V talked about rooming with Tony C in the Padres organization attempting a comeback in Spring Training. I have no recollection of that and I can't find anything linking him to the Padres. Technically, I guess he retired as a Padre, but who would know. It would be meaningful if Pedro or Nomar for example took an AB or pitched to a batter while playing for the Sox the way Minnie Minosa took some token ABs to have played in a couple of additional decades. It would give the fans one last chance to say goodbye and it would be in the record books.[/quote']

 

Yes, but he will be remembered the most of what he did in Boston

[a700hitter]

Yes' date=' but he will be remembered the most of what he did in Boston[/quote']Oh, there is no doubt about that. He dosen't have to go through thr farce of a 1 day contract for that to be true. I just don't get the 1 day contract thing. :dunno:

[boy racer]

Martinez said he still has a desire to play, but he made clear that the draw of home life in Miami and his native Dominican Republic -- his family, his charity, his boat -- supersedes everything else.

 

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111203&content_id=26087740&vkey=news_bos&c_id=bos