{"id":379289,"date":"2025-12-31T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:38:13","slug":"dbacks-gm-provides-update-on-ketel-marte-trade-talks-expects-decision-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379289\/","title":{"rendered":"Dbacks\u2019 GM provides update on Ketel Marte trade talks, expects decision \u2018shortly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte will be a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks come Opening Day 2026 or starting for another club is a resolution that general manager Mike Hazen hopes to have \u201cshortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very likely to put an end to this shortly,\u201d Hazen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/dbacks\/news\/mike-hazen-timeline-potential-ketel-marte-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told MLB.com<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Diamondbacks retain the 32-year-old, he will achieve full no-trade protection on the 10th day of the season when he attains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/glossary\/transactions\/10-and-5-rights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10-and-5 rights<\/a>, having accrued 10 years of service time, five consecutive with the same club. At that point, Marte will have the right to veto any trade that is proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Marte has a limited five-team no-trade list that includes the Athletics, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6890000\/2025\/12\/15\/royals-red-sox-mlb-free-agency-trades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hazen did not commit one way or the other when it comes to Marte\u2019s future, only asserting that a decision would be reached. An exact timeframe for when that decision will be made was similarly not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t figured that out yet,\u201d Hazen said. \u201cBut this isn\u2019t going to continue to linger. We 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<p>Signed through 2030 with a player option for 2031, Marte\u2019s contract is particularly enviable for rival clubs due to its deferrals and low AAV. He is owed $102.5 million over the next six seasons, including $41 million in deferrals that do not get paid out until 10 years after the money is earned.\u00a0Factoring in those deferrals, his AAV is $14.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Diamondbacks part with Marte, it would likely be for pitching.<\/p>\n<p>Although multiple clubs have engaged with Arizona, Hazen indicated that talks haven\u2019t reached \u201canywhere near\u201d what the Diamondbacks are looking for in a package.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter is coming off back-to-back All-Star and Silver Slugger award seasons, finishing third and second, respectively, in National League MVP ballots over that stretch. Among second baseman in 2025, no one had a higher wRC+ than Marte\u2019s 145, and only one player, Nico Hoerner, finished with more fWAR (4.8) than Marte\u2019s 4.6 in only 126 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Since his first All-Star campaign in 2019, Marte has slashed .289\/.363\/.510, with a 134 wRC+ that ranks in the top 10 of all NL players during that same span.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte will be a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks come Opening Day 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[485,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-379289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}