Yadel Martí

Yadel Martí intrigues me as one of the quiet heroes of Cuba's run to the 2006 World Baseball Classic final: 1-0 with two saves, no earned runs, and a place on the All-WBC team. A right-handed pitcher out of Havana, born in 1979, he comes from a country where baseball is practically a national religion, and earning a spot on the mound there means something. He later took his arm to the Mexican League, and I find myself rooting for players like him whose names never traveled as far as their talent. There's a quiet dignity in a craftsman who spent his career out of the spotlight, and I'd happily take his story over a louder one with less heart behind it.

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Name (English)

Yadel Martí

Name (Japanese)

ヤデル・マルティ

Reading

やでる・まるてぃ

Born

July 22, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadel%20Mart%C3%AD
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917063

Tags

• Havana Province
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.