{"id":398823,"date":"2026-01-09T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:30:07","slug":"all-star-infielder-ketel-marte-set-to-remain-with-arizona-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398823\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star infielder Ketel Marte set to remain with Arizona Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ketel-marte\/597026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ketel-marte\/597026\" target=\"_blank\">Ketel Marte<\/a> isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal reports 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 decided to retain their All-Star infielder after weeks of trade talk surrounding the 32-year-old Silver Slugger.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ketel Marte will remain with the Diamondbacks, source tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheAthletic<\/a>. He will not be traded.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2009660452255777278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Nizao, Dominican Republic, Marte signed a six-year, $105 million extension with the team ahead of the 2025 season. The deal comes with a player option for 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marte appeared in 126 games for the team last season, batting .283 with 136 hits, 28 home runs, 72 runs batted in and an OPS of .893.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marte was originally acquired by the Diamondbacks in the fall of 2016 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>, with whom he spent his first two big league seasons, as part of a deal that saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/mitch-haniger\/502733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/mitch-haniger\/502733\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Haniger<\/a> go the other way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 11 career seasons with the M\u2019s and D-Backs, Marte has batted .281 with 1,273 hits, 171 home runs, 587 runs batted in and an OPS of .823.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marte has been named an All-Star on three occasions in 2019, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ketel Marte isn\u2019t going anywhere. The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal reports the Arizona Diamondbacks have decided to retain their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,168391,49,48,168392,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-398823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-253","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-ketel-marte-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-597026","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398823","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=398823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}