Diamondbacks acquire 8-time All-Star Nolan Arenado from the Cardinals in big move

The Arizona Diamondbacks made a large splash connected Tuesday, acquiring eight-time All-Star 3rd baseman Nolan Arenado and currency considerations from the St. Louis Cardinals successful speech for minor-league pitcher Jack Martinez, the teams announced. 

The Cardinals are reportedly sending $31 cardinal to the Diamondbacks to assistance offset the last 2 years of Arenado’s nine-year, $275 cardinal contract. 

The Cardinals are sending Arizona $22 cardinal to offset this season's wage — $2,666,666.67 connected the 15th of each period from April to September — and $9 cardinal connected Nov. 1, 2027, according to reports.

The 34-year-old is not the violative unit helium utilized to be, arsenic helium deed .237 with 12 location runs and 52 RBI past season, and his numbers person declined each of the past mates of seasons.

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St. Louis Cardinals 3rd baseman Nolan Arenado (28) celebrates successful the dugout aft scoring connected an RBI successful the 4th inning against the Colorado Rockies astatine Coors Field. The play took spot successful Denver, Colorado, connected July 21, 2025. (Isaiah J. Downing/Imagn Images)

The 10-time Gold Glove victor inactive plays a beardown 3rd base, and volition fortify the presumption for the Diamondbacks defensively. Arenado gives the squad a seasoned beingness astatine the presumption aft the Diamondbacks traded slugger Eugenio Suárez astatine past season's commercialized deadline.

Arenado waived his no-trade clause to assistance facilitate the deal.

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St. Louis Cardinals 3rd baseman Nolan Arenado (28) throws to archetypal basal for an retired against the San Francisco Giants during the 4th inning astatine Oracle Park. The play took spot successful San Francisco, California, connected Sept. 23, 2025. (Eakin Howard/Imagn Images)

"We are grateful for Nolan’s 5 years arsenic a Cardinal, connected and disconnected the tract — for his drive, his competitiveness, and for each of the memories helium gave us," Cardinals president of shot operations Chaim Bloom said successful a statement.

"As we proceed to determination forward, we are pleased to adhd different intriguing pitching imaginable to our organization, and excited for the accidental this determination creates for a fig of our players to measurement up and further found themselves astatine the large league level," Bloom added.

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St. Louis Cardinals 3rd baseman Nolan Arenado (28) runs location aft hitting a solo location tally against the San Francisco Giants during the seventh inning astatine Oracle Park. The play took spot successful San Francisco, California, connected Sept. 23, 2025. (Eakin Howard/Imagn Images)

Arenado is simply a vocation .282 hitter with 353 location runs and 353 location runs and 1,184 RBI.

Martinez was an eighth-round prime by the D-backs retired of Arizona State successful 2025. He did not pitched aft being signed. In his past assemblage season, Martinez had a 5.47 ERA portion striking retired 110 batters with 33 walks successful 77 1/3 innings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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