Baseball Hall of Famer Pedro Martínez wondered what would have happened if Tom Brady had chosen to pursue a career with the Montreal Expos instead of playing football at Michigan.
The Expos selected Brady, a receiver, in the 18th round of the 1995 NFL Draft.
He decided to go to Michigan to play football, then he joined the New England Patriots and the rest is history.
Martinez, who appeared on “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” on Friday to discuss the retirement of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, was asked about Brady's baseball career.
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady throws out the first pitch before the start of an Opening Day game at Fenway Park in Boston on April 3, 2017. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“He chose soccer and I was on that team,” Martínez said on the program. “We drafted him and he chose to go to football. But I can only imagine if we made Brady a pitcher, and he had that kind of hose that he had with football and pitching and was that good. Imagine that?
“It would be an Expo right now and we would never have left Montreal.”
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Martinez was asked if Brady could have engineered some perfect games or no-hitters like his battery mate.
“As smart as he is, he wouldn't doubt anything,” Martinez said. “And the funny thing is, we were doing something at Fenway, and he was throwing out the first pitch. I got to the batting cage and I saw Tom there grabbing the bat. And I said, 'Tom, will you?' Hit some?' And he had pretty good pop and it seemed to me like he could hit too.”
Pedro Martínez of the Montreal Expos pitches during a 1996 game. (Jeff Carlick/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Brady recently teamed up with Topps to come up with the big what-if scenario. Former Expos stars and potential teammates Vladimir Guerrero, Larry Walker and Pedro Martínez also appear in the accompanying ad.
“That guy never let us lose,” Walker said in the ad while reminiscing with Martinez and Guerrero at a bar called “Brady's Brasserie.”
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The commercial also explores the notion that Brady's greatness might have kept the Expos from abandoning Montreal. Nearly two decades ago, the Expos moved to Washington, D.C., where the franchise became known as the Nationals.
Legendary Montreal Expos pitcher Pedro Martínez throws out the first pitch before a game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays on April 12, 2023 at Rogers Center in Toronto. (Julian Avram/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The commercial attempts to balance Brady's baseball career by highlighting the accomplishments, but also showing what would be a couple of disappointing losses. The ad shows World Series losses to the San Francisco Giants, a team with the same nickname as the franchise against which Brady lost two Super Bowls.
Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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