{"id":524545,"date":"2026-01-17T03:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:17:57","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-acquire-third-baseman-nolan-arenado-from-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524545\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks acquire third baseman Nolan Arenado from St. Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nolan-arenado\/500816\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nolan-arenado\/500816\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan Arenado<\/a>\u2019s protracted exit from St. Louis has finally happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> have acquired the veteran third baseman from the Cardinals in exchange for right-handed pitcher Jack Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arenado, 34, has two years remaining on an eight-year, $260 million deal signed as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Athletic\u2019s Katie Woo reported earlier on Tuesday that the two teams were in serious discussions for the player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Newport Beach, CA, Arenado has spent the past five seasons with the Cards and is set to embark on a 14th big-league season. He appeared in 107 games in 2025, batting .237 with 95 hits, 12 home runs, 52 runs batted in and an OPS of .666.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A second-round pick in the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft, Arenado is a 10-time Gold Glove winner, five-time Silver Slugger and eight-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arenado holds a full no-trade clause and needed to waive it for a deal to the D-Backs to be consummated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Martinez, 22, was an eighth-round pick in the 2025 MLB Amateur Draft out of Arizona State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nolan Arenado\u2019s protracted exit from St. Louis has finally happened. The Arizona Diamondbacks have acquired the veteran third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[30173,60586,5,160,4,69670,62285,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-524545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-253","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-nolan-arenado-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-500816","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-248","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115908280521163745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524545","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=524545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}