{"id":501215,"date":"2026-03-03T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:48:08","slug":"%e2%9a%be-royals-sign-of-marte-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501215\/","title":{"rendered":"\u26be Royals sign OF Marte to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772538270896.png\" alt=\"Kansas City Royals image\"\/>Kansas City Royals image<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n<p>SURPRISE, Ariz.\u2014The Kansas City Royals today announced they have signed outfielder Starling Marte to a one-year Major League contract. Marte will wear No. 0.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Royals designated outfielder Dairon Blanco for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Marte, 37, has played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues with Pittsburgh (2012-19), Arizona (2020), Miami (2020-21), Oakland (2021) and the Mets (2022-25). He\u2019s a career .285 hitter with a .781 OPS, and is one of only 19 players in Major League history \u2014and the only active player \u2014with at least 150 home runs and 350 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>He is the Major League leader among active players in stolen bases (361), hit-by-pitches (166) and outfield assists (107), and his 55 career triples are tied with Mike Trout for the most among active players.<\/p>\n<p>Marte was an All-Star with the Pirates in 2016 and with the Mets in 2022, and won a Rawlings Gold Glove Award in back-to-back seasons with Pittsburgh from 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s played in 25 postseason games over six different seasons, including his most recent postseason appearance in 2024 with the Mets, when he hit .277 (13-for-47) and had 9 RBI in 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Last season with the Mets, Marte hit .270 (79-for-293) with a .745 OPS in 98 games, and made starts at designated hitter (66), left field (6) and right field (2). He hit just .220 (22-for-100) over his 1st 41 games but batted .295 (57-for-193) in his last 57 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals image Kansas City Royals SURPRISE, Ariz.\u2014The Kansas City Royals today announced they have signed outfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-501215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501215","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=501215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}