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Get this: Michael Martinez was once on Phillies

Michael Martinez didn't make it onto a lot of "former Phillies in the 2016 playoffs" lists, but not for the same reason that Dan Otero or Jeff Manship didn't, in that they were utterly forgotten. Martinez is remembered quite easily as the sometimes-replacement for a Chrondromalacia patella-riddled Chase Utley, whose offensive output wasn't much of an "output" at all and really more of a "downfall."

Martinez represents a time when the Phillies’ biggest problem was that they didn’t have an adequate utility infielder. He seemed like he would be fast, but he wasn’t that fast.