{"id":2305911,"date":"2026-03-01T02:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305911"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:53:19","slug":"royals-sign-starling-marte-metsmerized-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-sign-starling-marte-metsmerized-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Sign Starling Marte – Metsmerized Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Starling Marte<\/a><\/strong>, who hit 37 homers, stole 65 bases and posted a .734 OPS in four years with the Mets, has agreed to a deal with the Royals, Mark Feinsand<\/a><\/strong> of MLB.com reported Saturday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, but it is pending a physical.<\/p>\n

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Marte, 37, signed a four-year, $78 million contract with the Mets before the 2022 season and represented the Mets in the All-Star Game in his first year in New York. He played in 118 games that season, slashed .292\/.347\/.468, hit 16 home runs, and stole 18 bases.<\/p>\n

Age, injuries, and inconsistency reduced Marte\u2019s role in the three years that followed, but he was a clubhouse leader who Juan Soto<\/a><\/strong> called \u201cliterally the leader of this team\u201d last August.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he\u2019s actually the captain of this team,\u201d Soto told Mike Puma<\/a><\/strong> of the celebrity.land. \u201cHe\u2019s bringing everybody together. He\u2019s bringing the energy that we need. He\u2019s a guy who has been stepping up every single time, it doesn\u2019t matter what. He\u2019s actually the real deal of the team. He\u2019s the model of the team. Everybody, when they want to talk and get to know something or have a conversation, they can go to him. He\u2019s actually the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marte was an All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner in Pittsburgh, where he spent the first eight years of his 14-year career. He is the active MLB stolen base leader with 361.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source metsmerizedonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starling Marte, who hit 37 homers, stole 65 bases and posted a .734 OPS in four years with the Mets, has agreed to a deal with the Royals, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reported Saturday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, but it is pending a physical. Jason Parkhurst-Imagn Images Marte, 37, signed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[346033,27155,428844],"class_list":["post-2305911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-mets","tag-royals","tag-starling-marte"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Royals-Sign-Starling-Marte-Metsmerized-Online.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305913,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305911\/revisions\/2305913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}