{"id":513579,"date":"2026-01-10T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:54:21","slug":"diamondbacks-dont-plan-to-trade-ketel-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513579\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks don’t plan to trade Ketel Marte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ketel Marte<\/a> is staying put.<\/p>\n

The Arizona Diamondbacks have decided to keep the All-Star second baseman after entertaining trade offers, according to The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

General manager Mike Hazen had indicated the saga was nearing a resolution, saying late last month that the D-backs were \u201cvery likely to put an end to this shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t going to continue to linger,\u201d Hazen told MLB.com<\/a> at the time. \u201cWe need to focus our offseason. Again, my gut this whole time was that [a trade of Marte] wasn\u2019t going to happen, and I think it seems likely that that\u2019s the case and we want to focus on other things we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The righty-swinging Marte, 32, batted .283 with 28 home runs and an .893 OPS in 126 games last season, and he is owed a hyper-reasonable $102.5 million over the six years remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n

But the Diamondbacks considered parting with Marte after a disappointing 80-82 season in which they traded away several veterans before the deadline. Marte became the subject of criticism when he missed three games following the All-Star break after his Phoenix-area home was burglarized.<\/p>\n

Arizona was said to be seeking a superstar-worthy return for Marte, a three-time All-Star who finished third in 2024 National League MVP voting.<\/p>\n

The Mets, who would benefit from a big right-handed bat to protect Juan Soto, were floated as a potential fit, even though they had already added Marcus Semien this offseason to play second base.<\/p>\n

Marte has experience playing the outfield, but he\u2019s made only two appearances there over the past four seasons and none in the last two years.<\/p>\n

Complicating the situation was that Marte\u2019s contract reportedly has a no-trade list of five teams, including the Yankees<\/a>, whose own second baseman, Jazz Chisholm Jr., was the subject of trade rumors earlier in the offseason.<\/p>\n

Marte will obtain the ability to veto a trade to any team in April, when he achieves 10-5 status as an MLB player with 10 years of MLB service time, including five with the same team.<\/p>\n

The removal of Marte from the trade market adds another layer of inactivity to what has been a particularly slow-moving MLB offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ketel Marte is staying put. The Arizona Diamondbacks have decided to keep the All-Star second baseman after entertaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,1363,729,101,4,4164,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-513579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","14":"tag-ketel-marte","15":"tag-mets","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-trade","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115872089049408676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}