{"id":505754,"date":"2026-02-28T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:33:08","slug":"kansas-city-royals-in-touch-with-veteran-outfielder-starling-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505754\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals in touch with veteran outfielder Starling Marte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> have been in contact with free agent outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/starling-marte\/503030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/starling-marte\/503030\" target=\"_blank\">Starling Marte<\/a> about a possible deal, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heyman adds that nothing is done at the moment.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Royals are talking to Starling Marte about a possible deal. Not done yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YancenPujols?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@YancenPujols<\/a> 1st mentioned<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2027762231555903637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marte, 37, is coming off a four-year, $78 million deal he signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> ahead of the 2022 season. He appeared in 98 games last year with the Mets, slashing .270\/.335\/.410 with nine home runs, 34 RBI and seven stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic native has played 14 seasons in MLB since making his debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> in July of 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He spent his first eight seasons with Pittsburgh and also had stints with 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>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> before signing with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is a career .285 hitter and a two-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals have been in contact with free agent outfielder Starling Marte about a possible deal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,150452,462,82,201628],"class_list":["post-505754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kansas-city-royals-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-231","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-starling-marte-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-503030"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505754","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=505754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}