Pedro Martinez: I Asked Expos to Trade Me to Yankees Three Times | The Rich Eisen Show | 7/16/18

[@zdql2000]

You have to love this guy. He is a walking baseball god.

[@dravenbbs66]

If the Yankees had Martinez on their team in the late 1990s they would of won maybe 7 World Series. Martinez is still the greatest pitcher I ever seen as a Yankees fan.

[@iamhungey12345]

It's interesting indeed. 2002 - 2004 are the best chances for that to happen, he still would have been hurt in 2001 though. Would have been interesting to see how many games he could have won in 2000 with the Yankees, seriously that ERA.

[@KTF0]

@@iamhungey12345 Don't think so. The Expos wanted Mo and Pettite if i remember correctly.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@KTF0 Still it's something to think about, but yeah it may not be all that worthwhile I guess. Call me crazy but I might do it for Pettitte for Pedro but Mo? Yeah the potential for wasted pitching gems. I know it sounds crazy choose a closer over a starter and all. There always has to be a catch by the end of the day. I have to wonder thinking about this, in 2000 did the Angels really offered Jim Edmonds for Mendoza straight up or was there some others they were asking for? I know Mendoza was brought up in the discussion for Sosa months later but Edmonds straight up? It sounded too good to be true to be honest.

[@KTF0]

@@iamhungey12345 Funny part it was the Expos asking for Pettitte was when the Yanks said no. There was a third dude in the trade, not sure if it was Posada or Ricky Ledee. I remember reading it in the Daily News and hearing it in Mike and the Mad Dog back in the day. The Yanks, I believe, wanted Edmonds or a CF for a sec cuz they thought Bernie was going to sign with Arizona. Don't remember that clearly.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@KTF0 I recall the Yankees going for Albert Belle when it looked as if Bernie was going to leave. Really dodged a huge bullet there considering what happened to him after 2000, even then his numbers were dropping off before his hip dies on him. 1999 wouldn't be an issue but 2000 definitely would have killed them and that's without factoring his reputation in the club house of the teams he played for. With that said, regarding Pedro, still better than the time when the Indians turned down the offer where the Expos asked for Jaret Wright. I didn't know this until recently.

[@lukekuykendall6366]

I'm a lifelong Cardinal fan, but I respect greatness, and Pedro is one of the greatest to ever take the hill. His 1999 season, one of the best ever!

[@ajjim2822]

2000 was even better

[@jockoadams3377]

I really appreciate the amount of interviews and MLB Network segments Pedro has done since his retirement. He is such a brilliant baseball mind and very interesting to listen to.

[@bridesblade5307]

I just love the honesty in this man.

[@UnleashthePhury]

I love that Pedro still thinks of the nationals as the expos

[@hockeycentral1149]

Nationals are awful

[@Yeen_]

@@hockeycentral1149 got their championship though lol

[@mkhanman12345]

they will always be the expos

[@deepzone31]

Pedro is a god. I love that he loves America. I love that he continues to be a legend even in the booth. God bless him.

[@MrStephenLast]

I was an Expo Fan. I remember hearing that the Expos traded Delino Deshields to the Dodgers for Pedro, and thinking NOOOO!!! I had really liked Deshields. I was then proven wrong. I still remember the almost perfect game he had. 9 innings, but it was tied 0-0. The expos scored a run in the top of 10th, they let him start the bottom of the 10th but unfortunately gave up a hit. They still won at least.

[@jonathanrecinos5894]

Thank God he never went to the Yankees could you of imagine... Oh man that would of been scary

[@StarryStarryNocturne]

Pedro Martinez, David Cone, David Wells, Orlando Hernandez and Andy Pettitte would've been the 5th starter! What a starting rotation! You're essentially using Pedro Martinez to take Hideki's spot and then some lol. Never mind Atlanta's 3-headed monster, that would've been a 4 headed monster (considering Wells finished 3rd in Cy Young voting the year Pedro would've been traded to the Yankees if it had happened) and the scariest starting 5 in all of baseball that year.

[@Yooncelebtarot]

StarryStarryNocturne man that five man rotation... the yanks would have never lost a game. They already won so much as it was...

[@courtgizzle]

Yankees would of had a 6 peat 1996 to 2001

[@jonathanrecinos5894]

@@courtgizzle maybe more..

[@chaisesamargis3149]

Yeah pedro loved the yankees are his childhood team

[@wbdrugstrat]

Pedro is awesome.

[@johnbell3166]

'Barry Bonds also did very well against me.' true honesty

[@AnimeGamer0]

Well, Barry Bonds did well against everyone.

[@juegotopiagaming]

Yankee fan here, but this guy and big Papi are the only Red Sox I respect. Class act.

[@SA-sf2cq]

Pedro became Pedro in Montreal Under Felipe Alou.

[@johnmoore7926]

I like this interview by Pedro Martinez. He knew how to keep it interesting.

[@veronaraven3099]

I'm a Yankee fan and think Pedro is pure gold!

[@trescurvas]

if he had gone to the Yankees he would have 350 wins lifetime easily, I got tired to see this guy throwing 7-8 innings with either 1 run allowed or no runs allowed and at the end of the game he had either a L or a no decision.

[@danielwarren3138]

Put him in those Yankee teams with the form he had in his Red Sox years and he probably wins 25 games every year, possibly 27-28 in his 1999-2000 seasons, slam dunk back to back MVPs. Absolutely stupid how good he was in his prime.

[@autospectrumbodyshop8546]

FACTS!

[@tommyfu9271]

lol he won 219 games. he's not magically winning another 131 if he went to the yankees. And I say that as a Yankees fan who thinks Pedro in his prime is the best pitcher of my lifetime.

[@d.a.b2374]

Waooo true honesty..

[@damianmelendez7526]

The Yankees traded Tony Armas Jr, a top prospect at that time to Red Sox for Mike Stanley. Expos wanted Tony badly. That's why Pedro was traded to RS.

[@jonathanbeaulieu3630]

And Expos were stiff budget so Pedro was earning too much for them

[@JJA1987]

So glad that never happened - Pedro was made to be a Red Sox

[@geovannygonzalez7258]

I was at my prime playing and his dominance was overwhelming for being so small to

[@johnnygarcia33133]

Pedro Martinez is one of the best of all time but in NYC Yankees will always be his daddy.😆

[@courtgizzle]

Imagine Pedro got traded to the Yankees in 1997

[@noelguillermo685]

The league would of stopped it from happening maybe

[@courtgizzle]

@@noelguillermo685 the Yankees would of had a 6 peat from 1996 to 2001

[@ninolama]

Pedro el Grande

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

That would have been great. I never liked Pedro (mostly because of what he did in 2003 to Posada and Zimmer), but the man can pitch. Couldn't beat the Yankees though, maybe it's because he liked them so much.

[@PhillyLeotardo25]

Sam The gerbil came at him and he stepped a side with a little push. Posada that was a PR DR argument

[@ghendar]

Actually Sam, Pedro had a lot of success against the Yankees. To say he couldn't beat them is flat out wrong

[@iamhungey12345]

To be fair, most of the Ls against the Yankees he just got out pitched. Those were hard earned victories the Yankees got off him for the most part. Just that they had more than what most team had done against the guy, especially in his prime.

[@mikeyoungblood1642]

iamhungey12345 also most of the Ls to the Yankees were 2002-04...check 1998-2001

[@tubenachos]

Ws or Ls Pedro is still a first ballot Hall of Famer and Top 5 all time 🤷‍♂️

[@kk-sr1wl]

Pedro as cubs or yankees.. would've been interesting

[@Blaze-lw7np]

Cubs? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pleaseeeee

[@travisfield9769]

top 3 pitcher ever

[@iamhungey12345]

It is something to think about.

[@erikhopkins9488]

The Cubs!??! What!!!!

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Pedro would have been traded to the Yankees in 98, so they would have won basically from 98 to 2003. That means that Yankee Dynasty would have won 7 titles during that stretch.

[@TheBtstephens]

It’s so weird to think that one of our greatest nemesis’s could have been one of our greatest heros

[@173jaSon371]

Arod was almost a Red Sox player too

[@seanwebb605]

Many players don't get drafted by their favourite team. As Pedro indicated though once you're a player you stop being a fan. That's your competition. You go out to be the other guys. Maybe if you still have an interest in the city, the management and the team that they have at the time you express some interest in being traded or signing with the club later as a free agent. David Wells was an example of that. He really wanted to be a Yankee. He played with several teams before he got the chance then they traded him away.

[@hyperion755]

Babe Ruth be like:

[@CJ-rc5ru]

Did Pedro Martinez predict Strasburg going to the Padres?

[@DonaldSpencer21]

I love Pedro but I'm still mad about how he did Popeye...

[@tommyfu9271]

Bonds and Piazza hitting him well is fine but Enrique Wilson- cmon Pedro!

[@HT-sm9dm]

The 🐐

[@reeckcruceta3451]

Don't kill me but I got him in my top 7 alltime

[@danielbechard9605]

I know a lot of people would go against that hard. But I feel like that's accurate, in his prime there was no one better than him. He had finesse and power. When he fell off is a total different story. Late 90's-early 2000's he was the real deal.

[@luigipena5462]

Pedro Was not Worthy of being a Yankee

[@luigipena5462]

We Never Wanted Him

[@moleash6465]

I love Pedro

[@donsickario7921]

Redsox fans triggered in 3..2..1..