Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz told the New York Post that his former teammate Pedro Martinez will pitch this season.

“He will,” Ortiz said at Yankee Stadium. “Somebody will need him at one point. At some point.”

In early April, Martinez texted the Post saying that he wants to pitch again this year. “In the right situations, yes. If not see you somewhere around.”

Yesterday, the New York Daily News said that the New York Mets have no interest in signing Martinez.

Ortiz, who called Martinez “like a father to me,” said he spoke to the pitcher mid-to-late last month. The slugger said Martinez was then working out in the Dominican Republic and Miami. Ortiz said Martinez “wasn’t really talking to [any teams] at the time.”

Information from Mark Hale of the New York Post was used in this article.