The St. Louis Cardinals are unlikely to move Carlos Martinez, according to president of baseball operations John Mozeliak.

Martinez is under team control through 2022 and while he has struggled lately, the right-hander has a 3.39 ERA and an 8.4 K/9 rate in 95 2/3 innings over 17 starts.

"For us, the one core we have is pitching," Mozeliak said. "And to start trying to arbitrage that would have to be a very special-type deal, otherwise it would make no sense to us. None of that has presented itself to me. No one has called me with any great ideas that way. One of the responsibilities is us looking at potential trades, potential partners, but nothing that I've looked at would make sense in that regard. I don't envision us moving pitching."