SEATTLE -- Nick Martinez has proven to be a huge asset to the Rangers' pitching staff. Not the pitcher, the father.
If Nick Martinez, a general contractor in South Florida, had not badgered his son Nicholas into taking pitching lessons from former Rangers pitcher Juan Alvarez in high school, well ...
"I don't know where I would be," said the son, Rangers pitcher Nick Martinez. "I would probably be working on Wall Street with the rest of my Fordham teammates."
The financial world's loss is the Rangers' gain as Martinez takes the mound on Tuesday night against the D-backs with a 2-0 record and a 0.