Ketel Marte Has 5-Team No-Trade List, Including the Yankees

The trade winds swirling around three-time All-Star second Ketel Marte continue to blow. The Arizona Diamondbacks superstar second baseman is highly sought after, given his superb batting skills (career OPS of .823), as well as strong defense.

His contract is also relatively affordable: Because of deferrals built into his deal, his average annual value for luxury-tax purposes is only $14.6 million. That, says insider Ken Rosenthal, makes Marte "particularly attractive to big-market teams trying to stay under certain thresholds."

But Marte does possess a five-team no-trade list, Rosenthal has learned. And there is at least one big-market team on that list: The New York Yankees.

The complete list looks like this:

New York Yankees
Athletics
Pittsburgh Pirates
SF Giants
St. Louis Cardinals

Yankees are on Ketel Marte's No-Trade List

And even worse news for the Yankees, is that two of their divisional rivals are considered frontrunners to land Marte, if the Diamondbacks do get convinced to sell.

Hearing that both the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays are actively pushing to reach a deal with Ketel Marte, per sources.

Nothing close so far.
— Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) December 19, 2025

Insider Francys Romero reports that the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays are "actively pushing to reach a deal" with the D-Backs.

Red Sox & Rays are frontrunners to land Ketel Marte

The Rays just traded away their own slugging second baseman, Brandon Lowe, to the Pirates. Maybe they're feeling confident about landing Marte?

The Red Sox, meanwhile, have another option on the free agent market to pursue to second base if they can't swing a trade for Marte, and that would be Bo Bichette.

Plenty of machinations going on on the baseball Hot Stove, as the trade market and free agent market intersect.

But any of those teams need to act fast, as once the season is 10 days old, Marte becomes a 10-and-5 players, meaning he will have full no-trade protection as a player with 10 years of major-league service, five consecutive with the same team.

Last year, Marte had an .893 OPS with 28 homers in 126 games, a .283 average, .376 on-base percentage and a 145 OPS+.