{"id":524031,"date":"2026-01-16T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:30:00","slug":"report-st-louis-cardinals-have-traded-nolan-arenado-to-the-arizona-diamondbacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524031\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: St. Louis Cardinals Have Traded Nolan Arenado to the Arizona Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It appears that one of Chaim Bloom\u2019s most difficult off-season priorities may be about to become a reality. Multiple reports say the St. Louis Cardinals are working to complete a trade of Nolan Arenado to the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I saw this just shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/cardinals-trade-nolan-arenado-diamondbacks.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6826612\/2026\/01\/13\/nolan-arenado-trade-cardinals-diamondbacks-mlb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Woo and Ken Rosenthal<\/a> are saying that Nolan Arenado has agreed to waive his no-trade clause so a trade to the Arizona Diamondbacks can be completed. The talks are described as \u201cserious discussions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UPDATE: Reports now say trade is complete. Cardinals receiving Jack Martinez in return for Arenado. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickpiecoro\/status\/2011130701597605924\" rel=\"nofollow\">New report<\/a> says that the Cardinals are paying $26 million of Nolan\u2019s remaining $37 million dollar salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/jack-martinez-822956\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Martinez<\/a>. He\u2019s a righthanded pitcher who was taken in the 8th round from Arizona State University in the 2025 draft. He posted a 6-4 record with a 5.94 ERA his senior year at ASU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Add to this now the St. Louis Cardinals confirming this trade on social media places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cardinals also posted this tribute to Nolan Arenado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that one of Chaim Bloom\u2019s most difficult off-season priorities may be about to become a reality.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,28085,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-524031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-rumors","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115906676318554341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524031","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=524031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}