The good news just keeps on rolling in for Cincinnati Reds prospect Noelvi Marte. On Sunday it was announced that he was going to be promoted from Double-A Chattanooga to Triple-A Louisville as the first half came to an end with the Lookouts winning the division and earning a playoff spot. On Monday evening he was named as the Reds representative for the upcoming MLB All-Stars Futures Game.
The game will take place in Seattle this year. That’s quite fitting given that is the former organization for Noelvi Marte. The game will take place on July 8th at 7pm ET. If you want to watch the game you will have to watch it on Peacock. The radio broadcast will be exclusive to SiriusXM.
Every team will get at least one player, but some years there are organizations that will get two. That didn’t work out to be the case this season for Cincinnati with Marte being their lone representatives.
After arriving in the Cincinnati organization in August of 2022, Marte finished out the year in High-A Dayton and then headed off to the Arizona Fall League where he spent a month learning to play third base in a game environment after spending his entire career at shortstop while with the Mariners organization.
This season saw Noelvi Marte begin in Double-A with the Lookouts. He got out to a bit of a slow start in the first two weeks of the season, hitting just .184/.286/.306. But he quickly turned things around and caught fire. From April 22nd through June 3rd the 21-year-old infielder hit .331/.395/.547 for Chattanooga in 34 games played. He had 16 extra-base hits, 15 walks, and just 21 strikeouts during that stretch. And he would add in seven stolen bases in eight attempts for good measure.
But that June 3rd date is also the date in which he tweaked his hamstring on the bases against the Tennessee Smokies in the 9th inning. He would be replaced on the bases and played on the injured list. Marte then played in three games out in Arizona on a rehab stint before returning to Chattanooga for the final series of the first half, where he played in three games, going 0-8. He finished up his time with the Lookouts with a .281/.356/.464 line in 222 plate appearances.
In the field he played 30 games at shortstop and 17 more at third base. After posting an .838 fielding percentage at third base in the Arizona Fall League, Marte improved that with a .925 mark. It’s still in need of improvement, but it was a step forward at a new position. At shortstop he posted a .946 fielding percentage.