Russell Martin Wife: Is Russel Martin married?

Publish date: 2024-06-29

Russell Martin is a professional baseball catcher who plays for Toronto Blue Jays in Major League Baseball. Check out Russel Martin wife here.

Russell Martin Biography

Russell Martin was born on February 15, 1983, in East York, Ontario, Canada.

For his high school education, Martin attended Polyvalente Edouard-Montpetit High School. He attended the Chipola College for his education after rejecting to sign with Montreal Expos in the 2000 Major League Baseball. He met future teammate Jose Bautista during his college years.

He was born to his parents Suzanne Jeanson and Russell Martin Sr. who named him Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin Jr.

Martin is multiracial; his mother, Suzanne Jeanson, is Franco-Manitoba, and his father, Russell Martin Sr., is a Black Canadian.

Martin has not been married to date as such does not have a wife or children

In the past, he has played for teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates. Martin is the winner of the 2007 Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award and is also a four-time MLB All-Star.

Russell Martin was drafted in the 2000 MLB draft where he was picked by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 17th round. For the first season of his professional career, he played for the Gulf Coast Dodgers in the minor league as their third baseman. He had 286 hits and 10 RBI in 41 games with the team. His position was shifted from the third baseman to a catcher in the offseason.

Martin spent his 2003 season with the Ogden Raptors but was later promoted to the Class-A South Georgia Waves. He was selected as the Florida State League All-Star catcher during the 2004 season playing for the Vero Beach Dodgers. He played 122 games, batting .250, 15 home runs and 64 RBI. In 2006, Marting played for the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s which was his last team in the minor league.

Russell Martin was promoted to Los Angeles Dodgers of the major league baseball in 2006. His debut game with the team came on May 5, 2006, when he came to fill in for Dioner Navarro who sustained a wrist injury. He was able to make two hits including a double in the game. His first hit in the MLB was against Chris Capuano. Martin and Eric Gagne became a battery on June 26, 2006,

becoming the first French Canadian battery in the majors.

Martin became a free agent in 2011 as Dodgers did not tender him a contract but instead got catcher Rod Barajas in his place. In place of Dodgers, Martin signed a $6 million guaranteed one-year contract with the New York Yankees for the 2011 season. He became the everyday catcher for the Yankees for the 2011 season and was also selected for the 2011 American League All-Star team as a Yankee.

In November of 2014, the Toronto Blue Jays signed Martin to a five-year, $82 million contract. He formed the first all-Canadian battery in franchise history catching for Jeff Francis. At the end of the 2015 regular season, Martin had a .240 batting average, 23 home runs, and 77 RBI in 129 games. He was the finalist for the catcher Gold Glove award along with Salvador Perez and Jason Castro.

Russell Martin is estimated to have a $65 million net worth. His $82 million contract with Blue Jays suggests that he has an annual salary of $16.5 million. He is one of the highest-paid catchers in MLB.

His net worth includes his personal assets such as his luxury house located in Lake Michigan, Illinois Chicago which has a real estate property of $2.5 million, and his luxury accessories such as his gold Girard-Perregaux