{"id":407034,"date":"2026-01-13T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:41:08","slug":"cardinals-send-nolan-arenado-to-diamondbacks-for-rhp-jack-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407034\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals send Nolan Arenado to Diamondbacks for RHP Jack Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Diamondbacks have acquired Nolan Arenado in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, the teams announced Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arenado is heading to Arizona along with cash considerations for 22-year-old right-hander Jack Martinez, who was selected in the eighth round of the 2025 MLB Draft. According to Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic<\/a>, the Diamondbacks will pay $11 million of the $42 million left on the third baseman’s contract over the next two seasons, with the Cardinals picking up the remaining $31 million.<\/p>\n

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Arenado, who will turn 35 in April, had spent the past five seasons with the Cardinals after playing the first nine years of his career with the Colorado Rockies. The 10-time Gold Glove third baseman and eight-time NL All-Star had to waive his no-trade clause in order for the deal to happen and reportedly expanded the list of teams he’d be open to moving to<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arenado moving on ends a year-long<\/a> saga of the Cardinals trying to trade him. In December 2024, the five-time Silver Slugger Award winner reportedly blocked a deal<\/a> that would have sent him to the Houston Astros. Both sides have been working toward this result with Arenado’s agent saying that same month<\/a> the player would be open to moving positions to help facilitate a trade “if it’s the right place to go.”<\/p>\n

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The Diamondback were reportedly interested in Alex Bregman, but following his signing with the Chicago Cubs<\/a>, Arenado became a top option at third base.<\/p>\n

Arenado will now join a Diamondbacks infield that features Geraldo Perdomo at shortstop and second baseman Ketel Marte, who was recently taken off the trade market.<\/p>\n

A right shoulder strain kept Arenado out six weeks and limited him to 107 games last season. He finished with a .237 batting average, 12 home runs and 52 RBI in 401 at-bats. Those numbers were among his lowest over the course of a full season since he broke into the majors in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Diamondbacks have acquired Nolan Arenado in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, the teams announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7679,5585,485,49,48,508,4021,85533,1506,171548,27438,462,13055,82,3982,171549],"class_list":["post-407034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-geraldo-perdomo","tag-houston-astros","tag-jack-martinez","tag-ketel-marte","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-the-arizona-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407034","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=407034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}