Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 30th round of the 2019 First Year Player draft out of Salinas High School (Calif.) but did not sign...Attended the University of California, Berkely, where he earned All-Pac-12 First-Team honors as a junior in 2022, as well as Pac-12 Player of the Week from April 4-10, 2022… he led all Pac-12 players in batting average (.388) and hits (47) during the 30-game conference slate…batted .408 (31-for-76) during a 19-game hitting streak from April 16-May 25, 2022, which was tied with Mark Canha for the longest by a Bear since 2009…did the majority of his damage at the top of Cal's lineup, batting .365 with all 11 home runs in 40 games played as the leadoff man...He was a four-time All-League & All-County selection in baseball at Salinas HS, where he also was a two-year football letterman, earning a pair of All-League selections…garnered a 3.9 GPA and was a four-time honor role student...Is the son of Gina and Kirk Martorella…his mother, Gina, played tennis at Fresno State…has two siblings, Kyle and Marie.
2023
Began the season at High-A Fort Wayne, where he led the TinCaps in home runs (16), RBI (73), doubles (26) and total bases (179) before he was promoted to Double-A San Antonio on Aug. 22...At the time of his promotion, Martorella ranked second in the Midwest League circuit in games played (112), RBI and total bases, while slotting third in hits (103) and runs (71), fourth in doubles and walks (73), fifth in homers, seventh in slugging percentage (.450), and eighth in OPS (.821)…his 132 wRC+ ranked ninth...Martorella’s OPS and home run totals were both top-10 for a season in TinCaps franchise history, en route to earning Midwest League Post-Season All-Star honors...Had one-or-fewer hits in each of his first 13 games from April 6-21, including three HR, before tying his career-high with four hits (2x) on April 22 at Peoria...Legged out his first career triple two games later on April 25 vs. Great Lakes...Slashed .310/.431/.540 in his 25 May games, the highest AVG, OBP and SLG lines in any calendar month in 2023… posted multi-hit efforts in 10 of the 25 games in May, including three in a row from May 20-23...his two-career five RBI games also came in May (May 5 at Lake County and May 21 at Dayton)…the May 5 contest marked his first multi-HR game, and he recorded his second multi-HR game nearly a month later on June 7 at Quad Cities...Homered in consecutive games twice during the campaign (April 18-19 at Peoria and June 15-16 vs. Dayton)...Posted back-to-back three-hit efforts on June 25 at South Bend and June 29 at Lake County...Recorded a career-high 10-game hitting streak from July 19-29, slashing .343/.442/.629 over the stretch...With FW, 34 of his 43 extra-base hits came vs. right-handed pitching at a .257 clip, while he hit .264 vs. lefties with nine XBH...Spent the majority of the season batting cleanup in the TinCaps lineup (56 games, .246 AVG), while also batting in the third spot (52 G, .265 AVG) and 5th (4 G, .357 AVG)...Hit .315 with both RISP (35-for-111) and with RISP/2 out (17-for-54) for FW...Promoted to SA on Aug. 22 and went 3-for-5 with three RBI in his Double-A debut that night vs. Amarillo in the Missions’ 8-7 victory...Overall with SA, reached base safely via a hit or a walk in 19 of his 23 games played for the Missions, including five multi-hit efforts and three HR...Hit cleanup in the Missions lineup 12 times (.245), hit third eight times (.172 AVG) and fifth three times (.364 AVG)...Between both FW and SA, he made 101 appearances (101 starts) at 1B, where he posted a .980 fielding percentage (16 errors in 793 total chances)…also made 22 appearances (all starts) in left field (.971 fielding percentage; one error in 34 total chances) and 13 starts as the designated hitter.
