{"id":655166,"date":"2026-03-31T20:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:55:30","slug":"j-d-martinez-returning-to-mets-in-special-assistant-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655166\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Martinez returning to Mets in special assistant role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/martijd02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">J.D. Martinez<\/a> is returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/mets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mets<\/a>, now in a front office role.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime slugger has been named a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations, the Mets announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He follows Carlos Beltr\u00e1n, who since 2023 has been a Mets special assistant, an advisory position in which he provides input to players and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez played for the Mets in 2024, hitting .235 with 16 home runs and 69 RBI in 120 games for a team that surged to the NLCS.<\/p>\n<p>Although Martinez, 38, has not officially retired, the outfielder\/designated hitter has not played since then.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u2019 roster is much different than it was two years ago, but Francisco Lindor, Mark Vientos, Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty, Tyrone Taylor and Luis Torrens are among the holdovers who were teammates with Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez batted .283 with 331 home runs and 1,071 RBI over 14 MLB seasons from 2011-24, earning six All-Star selections.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his exhaustive preparation as a player, Martinez acknowledged in early March that he worked with Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts last season to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/10\/17\/mets-jd-martinez-dodgers-mookie-betts-nlcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his former teammate<\/a> overcome a prolonged slump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe trusts me,\u201d Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AM570LASports\/status\/2028545840885952646?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said on AM 570 LA Sports<\/a>. \u201cHe values my opinion on everything, and from there it was kind of one of those things where we work well together. I feel like I just have a really good understanding of his swing and his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez also played for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox and Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.D. Martinez is returning to the Mets, now in a front office role. The longtime slugger has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,639,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,48435],"class_list":{"0":"post-655166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-j-d-martinez","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-special-assistant"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116325785840537087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}