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TAMPA – J.D. Martinez is not going to start the season with the Mets and as an alternative will construct up with minor league at-bats initially, The Put up has discovered.
Martinez nonetheless needed to bear his bodily earlier than his closely deferred one-year, $12 million contract is full.
However when it was finalized, the choice was that there was not sufficient time for him to be prepared for Thursday’s season opener towards the Brewers at Citi Area.
Thus, Martinez gave superior consent for a particular minor league stint, possible 10 days, to construct the at-bats he missed by being unsigned for nearly all of spring coaching.
These at-bats can come at expanded spring in Port St. Lucie or with a minor league group. The Triple-A season begins subsequent Friday.
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