Ted Martínez
Ted Martínez | |
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Shortstop | |
Born: Santa Cruz de Barahona, Dominican Republic | December 10, 1947|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
July 18, 1970, for the New York Mets | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 30, 1979, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .240 |
Home runs | 7 |
Runs batted in | 108 |
Teams | |
Teodoro Noel Martínez Encarnación (born December 10, 1947, in Santa Cruz de Barahona, Dominican Republic) is a former professional baseball infielder. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball, mostly as a shortstop and second baseman, for the New York Mets (1970–74), St. Louis Cardinals (1975), Oakland Athletics (1975) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1977–79).
Career[]
He helped the Mets win the 1973 National League pennant, the Athletics win the 1975 American League West and the Dodgers win the 1977 and 1978 National League pennant.
In 9 seasons he played in 657 games and had 1,480 at bats, 165 runs, 355 hits, 50 doubles, 16 triples, 7 home runs, 108 RBI, 29 stolen Bases, 55 walks (12 intentional), .240 batting average, .270 on-base percentage, .309 slugging percentage, 458 total bases, 25 sacrifice hits and 6 sacrifice flies. Defensively, he finished with an overall .968 fielding percentage.
Sources[]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- 1947 births
- Albuquerque Dukes players
- Alacranes de Campeche players
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Mexico
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
- Florida Instructional League Mets players
- Indianapolis Indians players
- Living people
- Los Angeles Dodgers players
- Major League Baseball second basemen
- Major League Baseball shortstops
- Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
- Marion Mets players
- Memphis Blues players
- Mexican League baseball players
- New York Mets players
- Oakland Athletics players
- People from Barahona Province
- Plataneros de Tabasco players
- Raleigh-Durham Mets players
- St. Louis Cardinals players
- Tidewater Tides players
- Visalia Mets players
- Winter Haven Mets players
- Dominican Republic baseball biography stubs
- Baseball shortstop stubs