Jose Martinez’s story will always be a great one filled with perseverance. From starting with the White Sox Rookie league team in 2006 at 17 years old to two other teams before finally being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2016, still at AAA. While Martinez did play in 16 games that year, he was debuting at age 27 after 10 seasons in the Minors.
The one thing that Jose Martinez always did was hit and smile. In his first three years with the Cardinals, that was no different.
In those first three years, Martinez hit a combined .