Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte lost $400K in All-Star Game burglary

David Matthews, New York Daily News on Jul 22, 2025

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte said $400,000 worth of items were stolen during a home break in while he was out of town last week at the All-Star Game in Atlanta.

Marte missed three games over the weekend while dealing with the burglary before rejoining the team on Sunday and playing in Monday’s loss.

“Happy to be back here to continue doing my job and face what happened,” Marte said in Spanish. “It was a difficult situation, but we’ve come back here to start over after what happened. It doesn’t feel good. The whole world knows what happened, but these things will get taken care of.”

Marte, 31, said he was in a hotel in Atlanta when he learned there was a break in at his Scottsdale, Ariz., home. The value of the loss was $400,000.

“You just got to move on,” he said through a translator.

Scottsdale Police confirmed last week it was investigating “a high-dollar residential burglary” the same day as the All-Star Game.

“There are some savages out there that just don’t respect people’s privacy,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said last week during a press conference. “Where he’s at right now, I’ve had limited contact with him. He retreats a little bit when he gets upset.”

Marte’s the latest high-profile athlete to be burglarized, joining Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce as crime victims.

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