MLB · 2B · Arizona Diamondbacks
Ketel Marte
B/T S/R · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Nizao, Dominican Republic · age 32 · played 2B 96, DH 21 · MLB debut 2015-07-31
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 1 G · .000 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .250 OPS
527 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Chase
8 HR from 200 — our pace: ≈ November 4, 2026 Follow the chase →
Scout’s note
Ketel Marte is a 32-year-old switch-hitting second baseman from Nizao, Dominican Republic, with 1,348 big-league games behind him. His last two weeks in MLB: six games, a .368 average, 1.215 OPS, two home runs — the kind of stretch that reminds you what he is at full strength.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Marte here — The Buzz September 1, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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)0.38861
- Got (aVal)0.35348
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02068
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
- $12.53M
- Tax hit
- $15.64M
- Service time
- 9 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $11.3M | $15.6M | $16.6M | $16.6M |
| 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 | $12.0M | $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.
Collect Ketel Marte
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The Bureau on Ketel Marte
The scouting press, in their own words
Loud mixture of boos and cheers when Ketel Marte takes his first AB in his second game back with the Diamondbacks.
Ketel Marte breaks silence, makes first public comments since bizarre departure; Torey Lovullo explains why he continues to offer support instead of discipline after latest AWOL https://t.co/GkjsUI9i0N
Ketel Marte returns for Diamondbacks in loss to Phillies, surprised by hometown boos https://t.co/Leq67te4La
Umpire favor
-0.1 net runs over 51 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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