{"id":513619,"date":"2026-01-13T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513619\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:06:10","slug":"diamondbacks-acquire-nolan-arenado-in-trade-with-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513619\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks acquire Nolan Arenado in trade with Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 13, 2026, 12:45 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"43e14a76-ff66-49ed-24fc-2835932f99dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> have acquired eight-time All-Star third baseman <a data-player-guid=\"72db1157-54ca-3b99-805f-4f186b85cd8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31261\/nolan-arenado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nolan Arenado<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>, it was announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Cardinals are getting right-hander Jack Martinez, an eighth-round selection in last year&#8217;s draft out of Arizona State.<\/p>\n<p>Arenado, 34, agreed to waive his no-trade clause to complete the deal.<\/p>\n<p>He battled injuries last season while hitting .237 with 12 home runs and a career-low .289 on-base percentage in 107 games with the Cardinals. The 10-time Gold Glove winner has two years left on a nine-year, $275 million contract he originally signed with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> before the 2019 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 13, 2026, 12:45 PM ET The Arizona Diamondbacks have acquired eight-time All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-513619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115889123311761715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}