News flash: Victor Martinez is good
Posted by Andy on April 1, 2008
With Martinez getting injured for the Indians yesterday, I looked him up. I was amazed to see that he's topped 250 total bases each of the last 3 years.
What's more surprising is the list of all catchers to top 250 in any of those 3 years:
From To Ages Seasons Link to Individual Seasons +-----------------+----+----+-----+-------+------------------------------+ Victor Martinez 2005 2007 26-28 3 Ind. Seasons Jorge Posada 2007 2007 35-35 1 Ind. Seasons Russell Martin 2007 2007 24-24 1 Ind. Seasons Brian McCann 2006 2006 22-22 1 Ind. Seasons Joe Mauer 2006 2006 23-23 1 Ind. Seasons
Martinez has done it almost as many times himself as all other catchers combined. Not too shabby.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Johnny Bench never did it three years in a row (although he did do it 6 times in his career).
April 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Amazingly Martinez also did it in 2004 for an ongoing streak of 4 years in a row. Here is the list including 2004.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Here is where he ranks among all catchers through age 28.