Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte mentioned thieves broke into his house and stole $400,000 price of things whereas he was out of city final week on the All-Star Recreation in Atlanta.
Marte missed three video games over the weekend whereas coping with the housebreaking earlier than rejoining the crew on Sunday and taking part in in Monday’s loss.
“Happy to be back here to continue doing my job and face what happened,” Marte mentioned in Spanish. “It was a difficult situation, but we’ve come back here to start over after what happened. It doesn’t feel good. The whole world knows what happened, but these things will get taken care of.”
Marte, 31, mentioned he was in a resort in Atlanta when he discovered there was a break in at his Scottsdale house. The worth of the loss was $400,000.
“You just got to move on,” he mentioned via a translator.
Scottsdale Police confirmed final week it was investigating “a high-dollar residential burglary” the identical day because the All-Star Recreation.
“There are some savages out there that just don’t respect people’s privacy,” Diamondbacks supervisor Torey Lovullo mentioned final week throughout a press convention. “Where he’s at right now, I’ve had limited contact with him. He retreats a little bit when he gets upset.”
Marte’s the newest high-profile athlete to be burglarized, becoming a member of Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce as crime victims.
