Buying and selling for Ketel Marte can be extra difficult for the Yankees than a lot of the different MLB groups.
The Yankees are one in all 5 groups on the no-trade checklist in Marte’s contract, together with the A’s, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates, in response to The Athletic.
That’s to not say Marte would decline a commerce to the Yankees, however it might require the star second baseman’s approval for the Arizona Diamondbacks to ship him to the Bronx.
The D-Backs are listening to presents for Marte, who has $102.5 million over six years remaining on his contract. That’s a hyper-reasonable charge for a participant of Marte’s stature, at the same time as he enters his age-32 season.
A 3-time All-Star, Marte hit .283 with 28 residence runs and an .893 OPS over 126 video games final season. The 12 months earlier than that, Marte completed third in Nationwide League MVP voting.
Marte has performed second base nearly solely since 2022, and the Yankees have an All-Star second baseman of their very own in Jazz Chisholm Jr.
However the Yankees have at the very least listened to commerce curiosity in Chisholm, ESPN reported final week, as he enters his last season of workforce management.
The lefty-swinging Chisholm, who turns 28 in February, hit a career-high 31 residence runs with 31 stolen bases in 130 video games final season.
Marte, a switch-hitter, has additionally performed shortstop and heart subject, and he may assist steadiness a Yankees lineup that has lacked righty-swinging regulars.
After all, the Diamondbacks may maintain onto Marte, with The Athletic beforehand reporting they search a “superstar-type return” for him. However Arizona is contemporary off of a disappointing 80-82 season, throughout which it traded away a number of veterans earlier than the deadline.
An additional incentive to maneuver Marte this winter is that his no-trade checklist is reportedly set to increase to a full no-trade clause in April, when he achieves 10-5 standing as an MLB participant with 10 years of service, together with 5 with the identical workforce.
Notably, the Mets aren’t included on Marte’s no-trade checklist, they usually may use one other middle-of-the-order bat following Pete Alonso’s current departure to Baltimore.
However the Mets already make use of a high-profile second baseman in Marcus Semien, whom they acquired in final month’s commerce sending Brandon Nimmo to Texas. Semien, 35, is underneath contract for the following three seasons.
The Boston Purple Sox and Toronto Blue Jays have additionally been linked to Marte.
