Pedro Martinez Admits to Asking to Be Traded to the Yankees Multiple Times

Pedro Martinez is forever linked to the New York Yankees, a team that mostly owned him throughout his entire 18-year career. However, he's beloved up in Boston by the Red Sox faithful, who helped break their curse in 2004 by winning the World Series.

But the entire city of Boston should have a seat for a moment.

While promoting his role with TBS' MLB Postseason television coverage, Martinez told Reddit on Tuesday that he actually tried to get traded to the Yankees on *three separate occasions* in his career as a member of the Montreal Expos, saying that he saw a legitimate "appeal" to joining them.

“[I] asked to be traded to the Yankees three times before I got to Boston," Martinez told a Reddit user. "I was always in trade talks for three straight years. I was the last one left on rotation and when I was asked where I wanted to be, at that exact moment Yankees were taking off, I wanted to be somewhere I could win ... this is New York, where most of the Dominicans are, I wanted to play for a team like that. They were always in the front line winning, they were a contending team ... I asked to be traded to Cleveland, the Orioles, and I think San Francisco in the NL because Atlanta didn’t need me.”

Let's just reiterate here that Martinez's trade requests happened during his time with the Expos and before he ended up in Boston. As the Expos were far from a winning team outside of the doomed strike season in '94, Martinez wanted to join a contender. And it's hard to blame him.

As we all know, Martinez would never don Yankee pinstripes. Instead, he was flipped to the Red Sox in 1997 in exchange for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas Jr. And the rest was history.

After a seven-year stint in Boston, Martinez joined the New York Mets (2005-08) and spent his final MLB season with the Philadelphia Phillies, which ironically ended in losing the 2009 World Series to the Yankees.

It really makes baseball fans wonder what would have truly happened if Pedro Martinez received his wish-- and how many more World Series titles the New York Yankees would have won.