Ketel Marte Ghosts the Diamondbacks in Boston, Lands on Restricted List
According to Nick Piecoro, Marte arrived with the team in Boston but did not show up to Fenway Park.
traveling all the way to just to ghost the at Fenway Park is the kind of elite PTO usage we can all respect, even if it throws a massive wrench into the lineup.
According to reporters Nick Piecoro and Robert Murray, has officially placed their star second baseman on the Restricted List. Marte made the flight to the East Coast with the team but simply did not show up to the ballpark for the series opener against the .
This is a massive sudden absence for an Arizona team trying to hold its ground in mid-August. Marte has been the engine of this offense in his tenth season in the desert, already sitting on 18 and a .773 OPS before this mysterious disappearance.
For anyone holding moneyline tickets or relying on Marte's total bases props, this is a brutal late scratch. You can handicap pitching matchups and weather conditions, but you cannot handicap a guy deciding the Green Monster just isn't in his plans for the evening.
just wrapped up a dominant stretch against , outscoring the across three straight wins before flying out to . Losing your best infielder right as you transition to a tough road environment completely changes the math for manager Torey Lovullo.
Usually, when a lands on the Restricted List, there is a long, drawn-out saga or a clear off-field issue. Traveling with the team, checking into the hotel, and then just hitting "Do Not Disturb" on the manager's texts is a level of out-of-office auto-reply that corporate America could only dream of.
Until the clarify exactly what personal matters are keeping Marte away from the diamond, his return timeline is a complete guessing game. will have to patch together their middle infield on the fly while gets a massive break in this cross-league matchup.