{"id":31185,"date":"2020-05-02T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=31185"},"modified":"2020-05-02T00:18:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:18:50","slug":"miguel-marte-former-oakland-as-minor-leaguer-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2020\/05\/02\/miguel-marte-former-oakland-as-minor-leaguer-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Marte Former Oakland A&#8217;s Minor Leaguer Dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Oakland Athletics minor league player Miguel Marte has died from complications from COVID-19. Marte who is 30 years old died this past Tuesday. Marte had been living in New Jersey working as a truck driver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A&#8217;s minor-leaguer Miguel Marte dies of COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dAxZx1I8vi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/dAxZx1I8vi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susanslusser\/status\/1256322519625129984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Marte&#8217;s Career<\/h2>\n<p>Marte was signed as an undrafted free agent in September 2007 out of the Dominican Republic. He played for the A&#8217;s minor league system from 2008-2012. He played first base and catcher throughout his brief career. Marte never made it past the Single-A Vermont Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>In five seasons Marte slashed .251\/.320\/.373 with 16 HR and 117 RBI. Marte was 18 years old when he made his professional debut.<\/p>\n<h2>Oakland Athletics Family<\/h2>\n<p>Marte is the second member of the Oakland Athletics Family to contract the coronavirus. In March a minor league manager, Webster Garrison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/coronavirus-update-former-a-s-minor-leaguer-miguel-marte-dies-from-covid-19-complications\/ar-BB13unbQ?ocid=hplocalnews\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was hospitalized due to the coronavirus<\/a>. Garrison is recovering after three weeks on a ventilator. Garrison came off the ventilator on April 16th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/athletics\/news\/former-as-minor-leaguer-miguel-marte-dies-a-victim-of-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He is improved but still hospitalized<\/a>. He was to coach the A&#8217;s rookie ball team in the Arizona League.<\/p>\n<h2>Athletics Statement<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The A&#8217;s are mourning the loss of former Athletic minor leaguer Miguel Marte, who passed away earlier this week due to complications from COVID-19. Marte played in the A&#8217;s system from 2008-2012. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Major League Baseball Players Association said in a statement. &#8220;Players and the entire baseball community mourn the passing of Miguel Marte. We extend our most sincere condolences to Miguel\u2019s family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Players and the entire baseball community mourn the passing of Miguel Marte. We extend our most sincere condolences to Miguel\u2019s family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JExOHtiBrF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/JExOHtiBrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLBPA (@MLB_PLAYERS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB_PLAYERS\/status\/1256325807204532224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Coronavirus<\/h2>\n<p>The coronavirus has devastated the sports world. The NBA and NHL have halted their seasons. MLB stopped Spring Training in mid-March. The NFL has yet to have any official practices canceled but that could be on the horizon. MLB is determined to have a 2020 season with several scenarios being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Angel Marte is survived by his wife, Jasmin, and their children, twins Isabella and Miguel Angel.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image<br \/>\n<a id=\"PpWfFEGSQvppBt8AA1KHLQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1005811816\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'PpWfFEGSQvppBt8AA1KHLQ',sig:'rD5If9mYXqjs5tayZDw3BiXLHICnSdsHZTzgfTNvCeo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1005811816',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Oakland Athletics minor league player Miguel Marte has died from complications from COVID-19. Marte who is 30 years old died this past Tuesday. Marte had been living in New Jersey working as a truck driver. A&#8217;s minor-leaguer Miguel Marte dies of COVID-19 https:\/\/t.co\/dAxZx1I8vi \u2014 Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) May 1, 2020 Marte&#8217;s Career Marte was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":31186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[3492,3590,652,283],"class_list":["post-31185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-athletics","tag-covid-19","tag-miguel-marte","tag-oakland-as","tag-oakland-athletics"],"modified_by":"Jared Cantatore","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}