MLB · 2B · Arizona Diamondbacks
Ketel Marte
B/T S/R · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Nizao, Dominican Republic · age 33 · played 2B 115, DH 25 · MLB debut 2015-07-31
624 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ketel Marte, 32, from Nizao in the Dominican Republic, has played 1,371 major-league games with 193 home runs and a career .277 average. In his last 7 MLB games, he did not strike out once.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Marte here — The Buzz September 1, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95109.390
- Deserved (xVal)0.38056
- Got (aVal)0.34236
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02675
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $11.27M
- Tax hit
- $15.64M
- Service time
- 10 yr 162 d
- Guaranteed
- $117M
The deal 7 years $116.5M (2025–2031), with an opt-out — $16.6M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 7 y/$116.5M (25-31)* · agent QC Spts · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $15.6M | $16.6M | $16.6M | $11.5M |
| Tax hit | $15.6M | $15.6M | $15.6M | $15.6M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $15.6M
- Guaranteed
- $116.5M
- Term
- 7 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $16.0M | $13.0M | $20.0M | $22.0M | $22.0M | $11.5M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Ketel Marte
The scouting press, in their own words
Fair Territory! *Ketel Marte discussion *Red Sox-Yankees *Will anyone claim E. Suárez? *Missed balk call in CHC-AZ game *Pete Alonso *Tristan Peters *More YouTube: https://t.co/CGYAgl9R6x Apple: https://t.co/pGTiTw3120 Spotify: https://t.co/JfehsrOGiC https://t.co/4HhSNkuvxo
Why the Diamondbacks keep putting up with Ketel Marte. Analysis, unlocked and free to read. https://t.co/vUji91Y5do
The Baseball Insiders: Thoughts on the Padres’ new owners; what I know about Ketel Marte and the Diamondbacks; much more. With @AdamWeinrib and @NickSelbe: https://t.co/QnCHPM28Ms
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 56 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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