Pedro Martinez will be television analyst for the playoffs - Brownsville Herald

class=”dateline”> NEW YORK – Pedro Martinez has endured and tasted all kinds of pressure in the postseason: A fight with Don Zimmer, a bad performance you gave a great advantage at the climax of the World Series, the conquest of a city first championship in 86 years.

Now the Dominican three times awarded the Cy Young talk baseball from the comfort of a TV studio. However, want to remember that tension.

exlanzador analyst will work as a television channel TBS playoff coverage, starting next month.

“Some of us went up to a box of journalists and see a game on the ground, sometimes we tend to forget how hard it is this sport and how uncomfortable it is to play under pressure,” Martinez said Monday in a telephone interview.

Martinez never shied away from the microphones during his 18 years in the big leagues, especially when he was with the Red Sox.

“Wake up the damn Bambino` “‘he once said about Babe Ruth, the legend of the archrival Yankees, before making an obscene reference. “Hats off, I can say that the Yankees are my daddy,” she said again, recognizing that New York had been higher.

Now, use the word “professional” to describe how they deliver their comments in TBS.

Martinez has worked with current players the Red Sox as a special assistant, and Proud says it has had resurgence Boston this year, a topic discussed during the playoffs. The chemistry between the Red Sox remember Martinez makes one that allowed the team to the World Series crown in 2004.

Even at other clubs, the right Manoguayabo have friends and former teammates.

“Like baseball, always recognized when I did something right,” he said. “I never had a problem that someone told me,` had a bad performance. “‘

But, he is considered an “optimist” and makes it clear he prefers to comment on purely sporting performance of any player who on any other subject. For example, reserves its position on whether players recently punished for violating the drug policy of the major must participate in the postseason.

Martinez, 41, last pitched in the 2009 World Series for the Phillies. He has appeared in several meetings with the local press in Boston. Like many newly retired athletes, trying to discover how to take advantage of the free time that you have now.

Martinez saw that other former players looked comfortable and successful on TV, and thought I could try.

“I’m very used to being given and compete,” he said.