Free-agent righty Carlos Martinez has been suspended 85 games under Major League Baseball’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy, commissioner Rob Manfred announced Thursday via press release. The suspension is retroactive to June 19 and comes on top of an 80-game PED suspension he received back in May after testing positive for Ibutamoren.
Martinez, who’ll turn 31 later this month, spent time with the Giants and Red Sox organizations early in the 2022 season but never pitched for either club in the Majors. He spent the 2013-21 seasons with the Cardinals and, from 2015-18, was one of the better young starting pitchers in the National League (3.22 ERA in 698 2/3 innings).
Martinez made a pair of All-Star teams during his time with St. Louis and signed a five-year, $51MM contract extension in Feb. 2017. Injuries derailed the majority of that contract, however, as the right-hander was limited to just 150 2/3 innings over the contract’s final three seasons.
80-game PED suspsension and an 85-game DV suspension in the same season? Dude is a walking disaster
He’s testing all of the league’s discipline policies.
I doubt this dude will ever pitch in MLB again.
Maybe he can pitch in the cartel leagues down South?
If Bauer is done, this clown absolutely is.
So damn WEIRD how much Boston sweated this dude, and their fans still do- LET IT GO
He was talented, his ego and head always got in the way. Now his career is more than likely over.
As a Red Sox fan I can confirm the not once have I ever been upset or talked to someone who is upset about Carlos Martinez literally ever.
That’s the jackpot right there, he’s single-handedly testing out all aspects of the new collective bargaining agreement.
Looks like he is doing well for himself. . Maybe he and Ozuna can go and create a wife beater baseball team in another country. Add Tatis Jr to this team. They can all share steroid needles, get drunk, and when they pitch a scoreless inning or hit a Homerun they beat their wives and say it’s okay, because they are professional baseball players. What a pack of losers.
Whoever said Tatis Jr. is a wife beater?
Lanidrac wishes Tatis Jr engaged in DV so he could defend him just like he stood up for Martinez
Well considering he shacked up with Bauer’s girl it wouldn’t surprise me if that kind of accusation gets made.
The Cardinals dealt with him WHY TOO LONG!! Super talented but a self inflicted head case!!!!
It was only the last two years (the first one being the shortened 2020 season) that Martinez sucked while with the Cardinals. Before then, he always pitched well as either a starter or reliever.
What a guy. We’ve seen the last of him in MLB.
Hope so. He doesn’t deserve another chance from any MLB or minor league club.
dear god
Talk about life coming completely unraveled. It’s gonna be a long road back, and even that is a solid maybe.
Should have just kept him in the bullpen
Jeez, talent wasted. Another cautionary tale…
Funny thing is dude is still set for life….
Not if his wife has anything to say about that….
Nothing is more done than he is.
I remember when he was in a little trouble for liking a bunch of dirty tweets not realizing we could all see his likes on twitter. Those were the good ole days for controversy for him.
Alas never to be seen or heard from again.
Odd thing there was showed everyone the elevator didn’t go all the way to the top.
As a Cards fan I miss the good old days of Carlos troubles when things when pitching still good. He has settled out of court for a strip bar parking lot violence incident and another settlement from him passing along an Apparently known STD.
Can the freaking Braves get suspensions like this for Ozuna. Like come on. Ozuna needs a magically failed drug test to appear
Ozuna did get a huge suspension and has already served his time. He just got lucky in that he was already under a good-sized multi-year contract when he got popped.
What a bum
A bum just like Aroldis Chapman and Domingo German. Makes me sick that those 2 are on the Yankees.
Agree re German and Chapman and the Yankees are okay with both
This never would have happened if the Cardinals had kept Martinez and he had remained under the influence of Yadi’s leadership.
This never would have happened if Martinez played basketball in PR!
i wish i could say that but cmart did get into a fight on the east side when he was with the cards. cmart was a bit of a head case and deterring skills i don’t see him playing in the mlb again.
DR strikes again.
Do the suspensions run concurrent or consecutive?
If concurrent he could still try to latch on somewhere and be able to return early next season, if consecutive than he wouldn’t be available til mid-season at the earliest. Either way we have probably seen the last of him
How is a PED suspension 80 games and domestic violence 85 games.
Both are serious, but domestic violence should be treated far more serious as it involves harming another person.
Also, you don’t take his previous suspension into consideration and increase the severity of the new suspension?
Trevor Bauer got 2 years for DV
Trevor Bauer got 2 years for being a general d-bag. The “domestic violence” part has basically been thrown out thanks to the “victim’s” own text messages. Personal depravity shared between two consenting adults doest= domestic violence
If Bauer wasn’t one of Manfred’s bigger, more vocal critics i wonder if his punishment would be different
MLB doesn’t want a misogynist incel type being one of the faces of baseball while trying to attract more women and younger fans.
What Bauer did was a violation of the league’s joint DVCA policy, even if L. H. consented to it.
And last time I checked, being a d-bag wasn’t against the rules.
How can he be an incel when the dispute stemmed from him having rough sex with a girl who appears to have specifically asked for that? And thanked him afterward.
It’s OK to mention that baseball groupie Lindsey Hill put a lot of very detailed information about what she likes in writing.
Lindsey had access to Padres ownership as her dad Coach Rich Hill was at USD and Ron Fowler had ties to the program.
Lindsey Hill worked for the Padres and had relations with a minimum of two Padres players, one of which had a newborn child.
She’s a soulless money grubber.
PEDs are a set in stone amount of days for suspensions.
Since the DV/CA/etc. policy is more brought in what it covers….it can vary depending on the severity of each case.
Each Case also generally involves a discussion with the Players Union as well to come to an agreement on the severity of a punishment.
Gross how Boston always coveted him and even signed him when everyone knew what was up smh
now ringworm Tatis has someone to play ball with. Can’t believe his HOF chances are done after only a few years
What are the odds…ex Cardinal busted for cheating, and now another does nothing for a decade for the Angels, comes back to STL in his 40s and starts mashing again. Nope, nothing suspicious there at all.
Playing on a winning team in a great organization in one of the best Baseball cities in the world can do wonders to help rejuvenate and energize a player.
Well, you also have Carpenter going from StL to the NYY and was on pace to break Maris’ record, which should also be eclipsed by Judge.
I wouldn’t count Carpenter out just yet. You wait until that boot comes off.
Well, he’s a scum bucket, but he certainly knows how to multi-task.
Well-rounded at being a lowlife. Just like Ozuna.
This guy has a multimillion dollar arm and a penny brain. Such a waste of talent
Why is this retroactive? Anyway, he seems to think rules don’t apply to him. I’m more than offer people like this.
51 million and he’s a disgrace. How did baseball ever get to this place. I love the game but greed is disgusting.
It is because owners and front office management agree to.
He’s trying to hit for the suspension cycle.
So I guess he can still be caught illegally doctoring a baseball, but how is he supposed to get caught using an illegal bat when pitchers aside from rare guys like Ohtani don’t hit anymore?
(I would include getting caught gambling, but that a bannable offense and so doesn’t technically carry a “suspension” as punishment.)
Well, at least he didn’t have ringworm.
What a piece of garbage. Ban him for life and be done with it.
i honestly think the agressive behavior is the result of using PEDs …..
Roid rage strikes again!
Hello Mexican Beer League!
Stick a fork in him because the dude is done!
I have a better chance playing MLB than him!
What did c-mart do to his old lady? I don’t recall hearing about it
Did he commit all three offenses?
A Dominican who cheated and beats women? Color me surprised. Fernando Ringworm Jr. hooked up with that groupie, Lindsey Hill, who accused Trevor Bauer with DV. She had written that Tatis was better than both Mike Clevenger and Trevor Bauer. Say much?
Oh boy
What a joke