LAKELAND, Fla. -- Now that the news is out, Victor Martinez can discuss the hernia injury he played through last year.
It happened around midseason, he said. And it was rough.
"I was really having a hard time just to get up from bed," he said Sunday. "It was bad. I understand the fans have got all the right to get frustrated, but trust me, there was no one more frustrated than me. I was hitting balls in the gap, to the wall and barely getting to first base. I have never put any excuses in my career, but they didn't know what was going on.