Report: Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte inflicting frustration amongst his teammates

The longest-tenured participant on the Arizona Diamondbacks is seemingly inflicting some inside frustrations.

Diamondbacks All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte has lately induced teammates and others within the group to quietly grumble over his propensity to overlook video games, Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic reported on Friday. Piecoro notes that frustrations arose over the time Marte requested off after the housebreaking of his house final month.

Moreover, Piecoro stories that some believed that Marte’s departure after the All-Star break set in movement the crew’s collapse that led to an eventual sell-off on the commerce deadline. Piecoro even provides that some have questioned what the crew would possibly appear like with out Marte, pondering the concept of a commerce within the offseason.

You may learn Piecoro’s full report on the state of affairs right here.

Marte, 31, is a three-time All-Star who has been with the D-backs since 2017. He additionally stays of their most efficient gamers, batting .296 this season with 23 house runs and 56 RBIs over 89 video games.

However Marte did certainly ask for day off following the housebreaking of his Scottsdale, Ariz. house in mid-July. The thieves reportedly made out with round $400,000 value of things in an incident that occurred simply a few weeks after Marte received taunted with a remark about his late mom throughout a recreation in June.

Marte ended up lacking the primary three video games of the second half for Arizona. Although the Dbacks received all three of these video games, they went 1-7 after that to shut out the month of July, resulting in some main names being shipped off forward of the July 31 commerce deadline.

The switch-hitting Marte remains to be beneath contract by no less than 2030 (with a participant possibility for 2031 as properly). So whereas it appears unlikely that Arizona will half methods with a participant as efficient as Marte nonetheless is, some actual tensions seem like mounting throughout the clubhouse proper now for the sub-.500 Dbacks.