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Edgar Martinez's baseball career has been reincarnated in an 18-year-old D-backs prospect

By Mike Bertha

Obviously, the ideal scenario for breathing life back into the baseball career of longtime Mariners great Edgar Martinez would be to have him come out of retirement and DH again in a quest for 3,000 hits like in "Mr. 3000." But his reincarnation in the form of an 18-year-old pitching prospect is a pretty entertaining Plan B.
The D-backs have signed an 18-year-old pitching prospect from Juarez, Mexico, named, you guessed it, Edgar Martinez.

The younger Martinez is 6-foot-1, 180 pounds, played on Mexico's U18 team and spent 2015 playing at the Toros de Tijuana academy.

The older Martinez is busy serving as the Mariners' hitting coach and trying to punch his ticket to the Baseball Hall of Fame (he saw a bump in support, receiving votes on 43.4 percent of the ballots in 2016).
We're no scientists, but we're pretty sure that 2,247 hits, 309 home runs and a .312 lifetime average would pair pretty well with a three-something ERA and a couple hundred strikeouts. Maybe the Edgar Martinezes could get in on a shared ticket? The plaque could even be like that photo from "Step Brothers."

A lofty premise for sure, but you can't knock us for dreamin'.

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