OHTANI INTRIGUE MAY HAVE HELPED MARTIN, RANGERS
Source: American Association News
Independent Baseball Chatter – by Bob Wirz Big Chris Martin is the type of player every American Association team should be pulling for as he bids for a spot on the Texas Rangers’ pitching staff since it is possible the 6-foot-8 native Texan would not even be playing baseball without a Grand Prairie tryout camp back in 2010. As a curious sidebar to this story, Martin gives some of the credit for the Rangers giving him a two-year, $4 million contract and a spot on their 40-man winter roster to the excitement in baseball about the Los Angeles Angels’ heralded two-way rookie, Shohei Ohtani. “There were a lot of scouts coming to watch him, and I think they stumbled upon me doing well over there (Japan),” Martin mused to The Associated Press early in spring training at Surprise, Ariz. “He’s going to be really fun to watch,” the hurler predicted of his former Japanese teammate. I’m excited to see what he can do over here.” The Grand Prairie tryout provided Martin, who had been drafted twice, his first opportunity to pitch in three years because he had torn his right labrum while in junior college. “I decided my arm was…
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