Adrián Martínez #55

2022

Was acquired from San Diego in the Sean Manaea trade just prior to the start of the season and would later make his Major League debut with Oakland, posting a 4-6 record, a 6.24 ERA and .856 opponents OPS in 12 starts over four stints with the A’s....Based on a minimum of 50 innings pitched, he had the fourth highest ERA in the American League and the fifth highest OPS and slugging percentage (.504)....Allowed 13 home runs in 57.2 innings for an average of 2.03 per nine innings....Tied for 10th among American League rookies in games started....Had a .295 opponents batting average, which broke down to .293 (36-for-123) with an .857 OPS against right-handed hitters and .297 (33-for-111) with an .854 OPS against left-handers....Opponents hit .333 with runners in scoring position…surrendered 10 of his 13 home runs with the bases empty....Allowed a .258 opponents batting average the first two times through the order, .475 the third time....Posted a 4.00 ERA and .734 OPS over innings 1-3, a 9.97 ERA and 1.018 OPS from the fourth inning on....Was 2-4 with a 5.40 ERA and .780 opponents OPS in six starts on the road, 2-2 with a 7.16 ERA and .929 OPS in six starts at home....Was 3-2 with a 4.55 ERA and .751 OPS in six starts during the day, 1-4 with an 8.04 ERA and .961 OPS in six starts at night…surrendered 10 of his 13 home runs in night games....Went 3-0 with a 2.20 ERA in three starts against AL East competition…was 0-4 with an 8.68 ERA in four starts against the AL West…allowed nine home runs in 28.0 innings against divisional foes....Opponents were 12-for-24 (.500) with three doubles and two home runs when putting the first pitch in play (.875 slugging percentage)....Tossed five innings or fewer in nine of his 12 starts....Spent the balance of the season with Triple-A Las Vegas where he was 5-7 with a 5.72 ERA and .880 OPS in 18 starts....Struck out 100 batters in 89.2 innings, an average of 10.04 per nine innings....Surrendered a career-high 24 home runs (2.41 per nine innings)…had allowed just 25 home runs in 326.2 career innings entering the season (0.69 per nine innings)....Also had Minor League career highs in losses and matched his high in earned runs (57) and wild pitches (11)…tossed his first career complete game....Tied for third in the Pacific Coast League in most wild pitches. Allowed a .270 opponents batting average, which broke down to .269 (52-for-193) with a .844 OPS against right-handed hitters and .271 (42-for-155) with a .922 OPS against left-handers....His opponents batting average increased to .320 with runners in scoring position…15 of the 24 home runs he surrendered were solo shots....Had a .287 opponents batting average the first two times through the order, .205 after that....Was 3-3 with a 4.07 ERA in nine starts on the road, 2-4 with a 7.68 ERA in nine starts at home...DAY-BY-DAY: Began the season at Triple-A Las Vegas and tossed four innings or fewer in each of his first four starts in April as he began building his pitch count…was 0-2 with an 8.79 ERA in April and 0-2 with a 7.45 ERA in five starts overall when he was recalled by Oakland on May 10 as the 27th man for the doubleheader at Detroit…made his Major League debut with a start in the second game and was the winning pitcher in the A’s 4-1 victory…became the 55th pitcher in Oakland history to start in his ML debut…was the 16th of those 55 to win, the first since Jharel Cotton on Sept. 7, 2016 at Los Angeles (AL)…tossed 5.1 scoreless innings to become the first of the 55 to not allow a run since Vin Mazzaro on June 2, 2009 at Chicago (AL)…allowed just four hits and did not walk a batter…of the 55, he joins Craig Minetto (July 4, 1978 at Seattle) as the only two to not issue a walk…was sent back to Las Vegas following the game…won three consecutive starts from May 27 to June 8 and had a 2.70 ERA over that stretch…had Minor League season highs in innings (7.0) and strikeouts (8) on June 2 against Sacramento and then tossed 7.0 scoreless innings June 8 against Round Rock…was 4-1 with a 4.84 ERA in eight starts during his second Triple-A stint when he was recalled by the A’s on June 30…was charged with his first loss that day at Seattle when he yielded a career-high seven runs in 4.2 innings…walked a career-high four batters in a 10-8 loss at Texas on July 11…was 1-2 with a 9.00 ERA in three starts during his second big league stint when was optioned to Las Vegas July 12…allowed a minor league career high nine runs in 4.2 innings in an 11-6 loss at Albuquerque on July 29, but only three of the runs were earned…had three losses in three starts (5.17 ERA) when he was recalled by Oakland for a third time Aug. 7…started and lost Aug. 7 against San Francisco and was sent back to Las Vegas the next day…had a win and a loss in his final two Triple-A starts Aug. 13 at Tacoma and Aug. 19 against Sacramento before returning to Oakland for good Aug. 28…picked up the win in his first two starts on Aug. 28 against New York (AL) and Sept. 4 at Baltimore for the first winning streak of his career…tossed a career-high 6.0 innings in the outing against the Orioles…then went 0-3 with a 9.13 ERA and 1.049 OPS over his final five starts…allowed a career-high tying seven runs on a career-high 14 hits in a career-low 3.2 innings in a 10-2 loss to Chicago (AL) on Sept. 10 in Oakland…it was the 14th time in Oakland history a pitcher allowed 14 or more hits in a game (last: McCarthy, April 26, 2011), but it was the first time in Athletics history it happened in an outing of fewer than four innings…logged a career-high 97 pitches and surrendered a career-high four home runs in a 5-0 loss to Houston on Sept. 16…had a no decision in his 10th career start, a 9-5 A’s loss to Seattle on Sept. 22…it was his first career no decision and he joins Zach Logue (2022), Mike Morgan (1978-79), Bob Trice (1953-54), Chief Bender (1903) and Wiley Piatt (1901) as the only pitchers in Athletics history with a decision in each of the first nine games of their career…struck out a career-high seven batters…left with a 5-4 lead but the bullpen blew the save.