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Pedro Martinez: Ex-Yankees star A-Rod lacks ‘true personality’

Pedro Martinez threw baseballs at many a New York Yankees batter throughout his career. Now retired, the Boston Red Sox great is still composing chin music for his previous rivals.

During a live chat event for Bleacher Report, the Hall-of-Fame hurler fielded a question about Alex Rodriguez’s time in the broadcast booth. Martinez began with a compliment, and then candidly reared back and fired a verbal heater at A-Rod’s dome:

“I think he’s good, I think he’s well-prepared,” Martinez wrote. “Would like to see more of a true personality from A-Rod, has always been an enigma where he doesn’t show the true A-Rod, where he’s maybe a little insecure…I think he’s a shy person, someone who’s not going to give you exactly what he’s really feeling.