Pedro Jaime Abreu Martínez, known as
Pedro Martínez (born October 25, 1971), is a
Dominican-
American former
starting pitcher in
Major League Baseball who played for five teams from 1992 to 2009, most notably the
Boston Red Sox. From 2002 to 2006 he held the major league record for the highest career
winning percentage by a pitcher with at least 200 decisions; with a final
record of 219 wins and 100 losses, he retired with the fourth highest percentage in history, and the highest by a right-hander since the modern pitching era began in 1893. He ended his career with an
earned run average (ERA) of 2.93, the sixth lowest by a pitcher with at least 2,500
innings pitched since 1920. Martínez reached the
3,000 strikeout mark in fewer innings than any pitcher except
Randy Johnson, and is the only pitcher to compile over 3,000
strikeouts with less than 3,000 innings pitched; his career
strikeout rate of 10.04 per 9 innings trails only Johnson (10.61) among pitchers with over 1,500 innings.