Martin Glenn Barrett (born June 23, 1958) is an
American
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former
Major League Baseball second baseman, who played for the
Boston Red Sox (1982–1990) and
San Diego Padres (1991).
Early life and minor league career
Barrett was born in
Arcadia, California
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. He is an alumnus of
Arizona State University
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, and the brother of
Tommy Barrett, another former MLB player who played for the
Philadelphia Phillies
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.
Marty played in the
longest professional baseball game in history in 1981, a minor league game between the
Pawtucket Red Sox and the
Rochester Red Wings
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. Barrett had the distinction of scoring the winning run for Pawtucket in the bottom of the 33rd inning.
Major League career
An excellent second baseman with an above-average arm, Barrett was known as a smart player and a great contact hitter,
striking out only 209 times in 3378
at-bats
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, and collecting a significant number of big hits by driving tough pitches to the
opposite field
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. He often was used as a specialist in
bunting
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situations, leading the
American League in
sacrifice hits for three consecutive years (1986–88).
In a ten-year career Barrett was a .278 hitter with 18
home runs and 314 RBI in 941 games. Barrett successfully pulled off the
hidden ball trick three times, including twice in July 1985.
In 1984, Barrett
batted a career-high .303 in his first full season. But his most productive year was 1986, when he posted career-highs in
RBI (60),
hits
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(179),
doubles (39),
triples
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(4),
stolen base
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s (15) and
games played
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(158).
He starred in the 1986 postseason, when he set a major league record with 24 hits in 14 postseason games, and was named the
ALCS
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Most Valuable Player
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. In the
1986 World Series
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Barrett had 13 hits in 30 at bats (.433 BA), and posted an on-base percentage of .514 against the
New York Mets. Near the conclusion of Game Six, he had been selected by the
NBC Television broadcast team as the Player of the Game. He was the final batter in the series, striking out against Mets closer,
Jesse Orosco.
Barrett held the starting second baseman position with the Red Sox for most of the 1980s. On June 4, 1989, he suffered a serious knee injury while tripping over first base following a ground out.
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took over as the starter, and Barrett played only sporadically following his recovery. During the final game of the
1990 ALCS
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, Red Sox pitcher,
Roger Clemens, was ejected in the bottom of the second inning. Barrett protested the call by heaving plastic water containers onto the field, and also was thrown out of the game. It was his last game for the Red Sox and he was released following the season.
Barrett signed with the San Diego Padres in 1991. In his National League debut he was called upon as a pinch hitter to face the San Francisco Giants'
Dave Righetti, with two outs in the ninth inning. Barrett, not known for his power stroke, hit the ball into the left field stands for a three-run home run.
He would only appear in 11 more games with the Padres, the same knee injury that he had suffered in 1989 ending his career.
References
External links
Marty Barrettat SABR (Baseball BioProject)
Marty Barrettat Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)
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1958 births
American League Championship Series MVPs
Arizona State Sun Devils baseball players
Baseball players from California
Boston Red Sox players
Las Vegas 51s players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Living people
Major League Baseball second basemen
Mesa Thunderbirds baseball players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
People from Arcadia, California
San Diego Padres players
Winter Haven Red Sox players
Anchorage Glacier Pilots players