Pedro Martinez reveals weird hobby that keeps…
Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez has 4 youngsters — and he also performs daddy to the colourful flower and vegetable gardens at his three houses.
“I have three babies,” the 53-year-old retired Boston Red Sox ace cooed to The Post about the plush sanctuaries he maintains in Miami, Georgia and the Dominican Republic.
“I’m trying to keep them groomed and beautiful,” he continued. “It’s almost like you have a little girl, and you want her to look good all the time, so you’re always kind of fixing her hair, matching clothes and stuff like that. It’s my moment to relax, and I just go into my own space.”
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez waves at the gang before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on Sept. 12, 2025. Boston Globe via Getty Images
This is the more delicate aspect of Martinez, who formally retired from the major leagues in 2011, trading the mound for a mic as a studio analyst for TNT Sports.
Gone are the bench-clearing brawls and the “Who’s your daddy?” taunts from Yankee followers.
Now it’s about the roses, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, spinach, the chickens he raises and the geese he feeds.
“Believe it or not, for 18 years in the big leagues, that would be my relaxing moment before every outing,” Martinez recalled.
“I had to go into my garden and clean my flowers, clip my roses,” he added. “That was my passion, and it still is. It’s a weird connection because if you watch me play baseball, you would never guess that I love gardening so much.”
Martinez acquired into gardening as a younger boy growing up in the Dominican Republic. Instagram/45pedromartinez
The three-time Cy Young Award winner traces his gardening roots to his humble beginnings in the village of Manoguayabo, a suburb of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
His mom beloved to garden and used the hobby to keep him out of bother.
“[I’d] become this feisty guy that wanted to go after everybody,” Martinez remembered.
“So when I got mad, my mom started just taking me aside and saying, ‘Hey, here, hold the scissors for me. Clip this plant right here. Clip that one,’ ” he said.
Gardening grew to become like yoga to him while he was pitching and now broadcasting.
It grew to become routine for him to have a tendency to his roses before video games. Instagram/45pedromartinez
The World Series winner was “caught by surprise” by how a lot he enjoys delivering scorching takes instead of heaters — he just acquired a multi-year contract extension from TNT Sports.
His platform is a space to “relay my experiences” and “express myself.”
The man who threw Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer to the ground in the 2003 ALCS — and lived to remorse it — now reminds gamers not to be “too harsh” to others because “sometimes we don’t really know the human being inside the uniform.”
Martinez — who donned a Mets uniform from 2005-08 — used to have a lush garden of daffodils, petunias, dogwoods and crabapples at his six-bedroom Tudor revival in Greenwich, Conn.
He once imagined that it will be a winter trip home in retirement, but he ditched that paradise when he kissed New York goodbye.
“I didn’t see myself going back to New York for too many reasons,” he admitted.
Martinez smiles from the mound during the ALCS Game 3 against the Yankees at Fenway Park on Oct. 16, 1999. Getty Images
He experiences that when he does come back, he receives a heat embrace from town.
“I thought the fans in New York hated me, no, but it’s the total opposite,” he shared. “I found so much love in New York, but that was after I retired. Of course, if I was doing damage to the Yankees, they hated me.”
Never thoughts that he cheered when the Toronto Blue Jays eradicated the Yankees from the postseason with a 5-2 victory at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.
He famous that Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is his godson. Martinez performed with Vladimir Guerrero Sr. on the Montreal Expos.
“Seeing the Yankees lose, it gives me a lot of joy,” Martinez said before rapidly including, “but I enjoy just being outside — nature, like the wild.”
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