Category profile
- Dominance
- 88
- Peak
- 96
- Longevity
- 82
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 92
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 10 | |
| 1994 | 11 | |
| 1995 | 14 | |
| 1996 | 13 | |
| 1997 | 17 | |
| 1998 | 19 | |
| 1999 | 23 | |
| 2000 | 18 | |
| 2001 | 7 | |
| 2002 | 20 | |
| 2003 | 14 | |
| 2004 | 16 | |
| 2005 | 15 | |
| 2006 | 9 | |
| 2007 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Pedro Martínez ranks #45 in Baseball
Pedro Martínez ranks 45th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 465th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 88, Peak 96, Longevity 82, Honours 86, Statistics 92. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1992–2009 with 17 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1999, which sets the Peak component at 96. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 96 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes cy young awards 3, world series titles 1, strikeouts 3154, era titles 5.
Immediately ahead sits Harmon Killebrew on 87.5, a gap of -1.1 points. Directly behind is Roberto Clemente on 87.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Pedro Martínez GOAT Score explained
- Dominance88/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Martínez stood above the field while competing. Scored 88/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak96/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1999. Scored 96/100.
- Longevity82/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 17 years of competition and 17 recorded seasons. Scored 82/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics92/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 92/100.
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Pedro Martínez — frequently asked
- Is Pedro Martínez the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Pedro Martínez ranks 45th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 88.6, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Pedro Martínez's GOAT Score?
- 88.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 88 (25%), Peak 96 (20%), Longevity 82 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 92 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Pedro Martínez rank all time?
- 465th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 45th within Baseball.
- Pedro Martínez vs Harmon Killebrew: who ranks higher?
- Pedro Martínez, on 88.6 against Harmon Killebrew's 87.5 — a margin of 1.1 points.