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He was excited on Monday about making a return to the mound at the end of the month but also expressed his worries about his father. "It's taking a toll on me and my family, my dad's situation," Martinez said, referring to a form of brain cancer afflicting his 78-year-old father. "I haven't been there for them. I just realized that between last year and this year I haven't been there for my family, my parents." "That'll probably drag me away from the game a little sooner than people expect. After this season, I'm going to go back home and think about it and I'm going to decide," Pedro added. |
Mets' starter Pedro Martinez is contemplating retirement at the end of the season to tend to his ailing father, according to The New York Daily News.