The Arizona Diamondbacks are continuing to lock up the core of their club. They agreed to terms with two-time All-Star Ketel Marte on Wednesday on a deal that could keep him in Phoenix through 2031, according to multiple reports.
The six-year, $116.5 million deal runs through 2030, with a player option for 2031, per the reports from ESPN, MLB.com and the Arizona Republic. Including incentives, Marte could earn up to nearly $150 million. The extension will replace Marte’s last contract, signed in March 2022, which guaranteed him $76 million (including a $3 million signing bonus and $3 million buyout of a $13 million club option for 2028) from 2022 to 2027.
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Marte, 31, joined the Diamondbacks ahead of the 2017 season, and since then has been Arizona’s primary offensive catalyst. In 933 games, including the first five of the 2025 season, he has batted .283 with a .844 OPS, 140 home runs and 465 RBIs. His 25.9 fWAR in that span is tied for 25th-highest amongst all qualified major-league hitters. He also ranks tied-27th with a weighted on-base average of .359.
Marte was the National League’s starting second baseman in the All-Star Game last season. He ended the year with a .292 average and .932 OPS, a career-high 36 homers, a 151 wRC+ and 6.3 fWAR — a performance that netted him five second-place votes and 229 points overall in NL MVP balloting. His third-place finish was the highest of his career. He was fourth in the NL MVP race in 2019, when he also was an All-Star and put up a .329 batting average with a .981 OPS.
Marte, the 2023 NL Championship Series MVP, has a .344 average and .974 OPS in 21 postseason games.
Marte’s extension is the latest in a line of recent moves indicating the Diamondbacks, who were the last team eliminated from the NL Wild Card race last season after winning the NL pennant in 2023, aren’t willing to let the Los Angeles Dodgers or the San Diego Padres assert themselves as the kings of the NL West without putting up a fight. Last week they extended right-hander Brandon Pfaadt, 26, despite him not being arbitration-eligible until after next season. In the offseason, they signed veteran right-hander Corbin Burnes, the top starting pitching free agent available, to a six-year, $210 million deal — the biggest contract the team had ever given. They lost Gold Glove first baseman Christian Walker in free agency but replaced him with Josh Naylor, a career .263 hitter who at almost 28 is roughly six years younger than Walker.
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And two years ago, the Diamondbacks signed All-Star outfielder Corbin Carroll, their 2019 first-rounder, to an eight-year extension worth up to $134 million. If a club option at the end of the term is picked up, he could remain in Phoenix alongside Marte, Pfaadt and Burnes.
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