Yankees Potential Free Agent Target: Carlos Martínez

Almost every winter, pretty much every team — the Yankees included — adds one or two players who have had success at the major league level, but who have, for one reason or another, not performed at that level in recent years. In 2021, a trio of pitchers — Corey Kluber, Lucas Luetge, and Nestor Cortés — filled that role, to great collective success. In 2019, it was Troy Tulowitzki, a move that had quite a bit less success.

Could former Cardinals pitcher Carlos Martínez be that type of buy-low candidate the Yankees bring in for the 2022 season?

To describe Martínez’s career as a rollercoaster would be very much an understatement. As an international amateur free agent billed as equivalent to a…