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The St. Louis Cardinals traded eight-time All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado and cash considerations to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for right-hander Jack Martinez, the teams announced on Tuesday (January 13).
Arenado, 34, waived his no-trade clause for the deal to be completed. The veteran third-baseman is coming off a season in which he hit for a .237 average with 12 home runs and a career-low .289 on-base percentage in 107 games.
Arenado has two years remaining on the nine-year, $275 million contract he originally signed with the Colorado Rockies in 2019 before being traded to the Cardinals in 2021. The California native was an All-Star in three consecutive seasons prior to his 2024 slump and five consecutive seasons between 2015 and 2019.
Arenado enters his 14th MLB season with a .282 average, 353 home runs, 1,184 RBI and 1,921 hits, having won the Gold Glove Award 10 times, the Platinum Glove Award six times, the Silver Slugger Award five times and leading the National League in home runs three times and RBIs twice.
Martinez, 22, was selected by the Diamondbacks in the eighth-round of the 2025 MLB Amateur Draft and went 6-4 with a 5.94 ETA with 110 strikeouts in 77.1 innings pitched during his final collegiate season at Arizona State.