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If that’s the case, it will surely be a shock to the system – for him and us. And though he hasn’t yet made any firm decisions about his future, he drops a quiet bombshell toward the end of the encounter, floating the possibility that he will call it quits after this season. His three months away from the ballpark, undergoing treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and then recovering at his Florida home with his wife, Arlene, at his side, seem to have put him in a reflective mood. Still, when Martinez, 73, does sit down for an interview, little cracks appear in his upbeat assessment of the state of the game.
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Change Up: How to Make the Great Game of Baseball Even Better, a 2016 book he co-wrote with journalist Dan Robson, bemoaned how the sport, with its veneration of statistics spotlighting individual achievement, had elbowed out traditional values such as team cohesion or personal sacrifice for the greater good.īuck Martinez (left) and Dan Shulman in 2000.

Co-workers praise his mentorship and remark on how he looks out for others. This is noteworthy, because Buck – sorry, it’ll take a moment to adjust to the newspaper convention of referring to him by his last name – is usually a consummate team player.
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And then, when asked who at Sportsnet, the radio and TV network that employs him, might co-ordinate the encounter, he responded: “Nah. It’s been a weird few years for him, after all, not least because last April he announced he would be stepping aside for a while to be treated for cancer. Last month, as he was standing for a rare idle moment in the Toronto Blue Jays’ dugout a few hours before game time, a reporter approached to ask if he might be interested in sitting for an interview at some point.
