{"id":340168,"date":"2025-12-10T02:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:31:08","slug":"red-sox-interested-in-possible-ketel-marte-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340168\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox interested in possible Ketel Marte trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox are among the teams that are interested in trying to make a move to acquire All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte from the Diamondbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports on Tuesday suggested that the Red Sox had their eye on Marte, though it isn\u2019t clear what they would be willing to give up to bring him to Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marte, 32, is coming off a season in which he won a second Silver Slugger Award and hit .283\/.376\/.517 with 28 home runs and 72 RBIs in 126 games.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37887657\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250928_tbs_pt6_014.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte (4) looks skyward after hitting a solo home run during the first inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte (4) looks skyward after hitting a solo home run during the first inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. \" class=\"wp-image-37887657\"  \/>Second baseman Ketel Marte looks skyward after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of the Diamondbacks game against the Padres at Petco Park last season. Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>He still has five years and $91 million \u2014 along with an $11.5 million player option for the 2031 season \u2014 remaining on the contract extension that he signed with the Diamondbacks back in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some [hitters of note who are trade candidates],\u201d Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow told reporters in Orlando at the Winter Meetings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/09\/sports\/red-sox-trades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Boston Globe<\/a>. \u201cBut it\u2019s really difficult to pry other team\u2019s best players away from them. And in doing so, you have to give up talent yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese types of trades should be uncomfortable for both sides. And so we\u2019re engaged in those conversations. It\u2019s impossible to know today what will get executed, what will reach the finish line, and what won\u2019t. But going to trades and free agency are both good ways to improve our roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marte isn\u2019t the only player the Sox have inquired about, according to the outlet, which has also included checking in with the Rangers about shortstop Corey Seager, the Astros about third baseman Isaac Paredes and with the Cardinals for infielder\/outfielder Brendan Donovan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6874837\/2025\/12\/09\/mlb-trade-market-winter-meetings-ketel-marte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic reported<\/a> that there were three other unknown teams that are interested in Marte.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There doesn\u2019t appear to be any rush by the D-backs to move Marte, but they will be cognizant of the fact that after the 10th day of the 2026 season, Marte will have a full no-trade clause go into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox are among the teams that are interested in trying to make a move to acquire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2317,374,363,130885,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-free-agency","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}