Team News
D-backs and Padres Set for Huge Weekend Clash at Chase Field
Pavin Smith’s Recent Slump Highlights Concerns About Bat
Arizona Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll joins some of the best company possible in hot start
chat is this good? pic.twitter.com/GIRxxTiBqn
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) June 11, 2025
Corbin Carroll, Eugenio Suarez mull idea of Home Run Derby participation
“I put that in the hands of them individually if they were asked,” Lovullo said. “I know that it takes a lot out of the body. I’m sure they could both handle it. They’re both healthy, and I think they do deserve it. I think it would be a great opportunity for them to go out there and get that type of exposure.”
Slade Caldwell’s 2025 Start Puts Him in Elite Company
Great to see Caldwell get a hittable strike and crush it like that. Should be challenged more aggressively in High-A than he was with Visalia. https://t.co/gTIpO6XQpE
— Michael McDermott (@MichaelMcDMLB) June 12, 2025
D-backs Sign Former Giants Starter to Bolster Minor League Depth
DeSclafani utilizes a five-pitch mix: four-seamer, sinker, knucklecurve, slider, and changeup. His four-seamer averages 92.7 MPH. His fastballs have been hit hard this season, yielding a .444 batting average and .704 slugging percentage. To combat that, he’s been leading with his slider.
Anthony DeSclafani Opts Out Of Deal With Yankees, Will Sign With Diamondbacks
Chase Field bill updates: Deadline looms large as Derrick Hall cites ‘lethargic approach’
“It could go to the Senate floor if the president decides to put it on the floor,” Hall told Arizona Sports’ Bickley & Marotta. “And then if it is approved, and the biggest problem is that everybody just assumes it’s going to get approved and get it done. And there’s just this lethargic approach going on right now, and I don’t want the legislators just to assume it’s going to happen. They have to help us make it happen.”
https://arizonasports.com/bickley-and-marotta/chase-field-bill/3586902/
Could this team shake up the Trade Deadline?
“If the D-backs look to sell, that would be hugely impactful on the trade market, assuming they are willing to put all of those guys in play,” said an NL executive. “Even with Burnes out, I’d be surprised if they look to punt; they’re still pretty talented. I would imagine they’ll wait as long as possible and probably have some conversations on the side so they’re ready to move quickly if needed.”
https://www.mlb.com/news/diamondbacks-could-shake-up-trade-deadline
Other Baseball
Reds’ Wade Miley accused of being late Skaggs’ drug supplier
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45501897/reds-wade-miley-accused-being-late-skaggs-drug-supplier
2025 Men’s College World Series: Ranking MLB draft prospects
Misiorowski reaches 102 mph, allows no hits in electric MLB debut
https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-misiorowski-makes-mlb-debut-for-brewers
Even while ‘fighting myself,’ Skubal dominates in another scoreless gem
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tarik-skubal-pitches-7-scoreless-innings-in-tigers-win
Rox rally for spirited walk-off … with emphasis on the W
https://www.mlb.com/rockies/news/rockies-score-3-runs-in-9th-inning-walk-off-vs-giants
White Sox, Brewers Swap Aaron Civale, Andrew Vaughn
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/06/white-sox-to-acquire-aaron-civale.html
Emmanuel Rivera Accepts Outright Assignment With Orioles
Tarik Skubal has 101 strikeouts and 5 walks in his last 12 starts
Skubal is the second pitcher to record 100+ strikeouts and 5 BB or fewer in a single-season 12-start span in at least the last 125 seasons, joining:
2016 Clayton Kershaw https://t.co/o61yIsrmRW
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) June 13, 2025
Anything Goes
This day in history:
Lafayette arrive in South Carolina to serve alongside General Washington in 1777, and Thurgood Marshall was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1967.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-13
This day in baseball:
1997 – On the second day of interleague play, Larry Walker voluntarily sits out the Rockies game against the Mariners in the Kingdome. The M’s starting pitcher is the imposing Randy Johnson, against whom opposing managers usually sit left-handed hitters anyway, but generally not those of Walker’s caliber. The Big Unit limits the Blake Street Bombers to two hits over eight innings, including a solo home run by Eric Young; he walks two and strikes out an even dozen en route to his tenth victory of the season, 6 – 1. Harvey Pulliam starts in right field in Walker’s stead and goes 0 for 3 with a strikeout.
1998- The first triple play ever completed at Dodger Stadium is turned by Darren Dreifort, Eric Young, Jose Vizcaino and Bobby Bonilla.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/June_13
Dolphins have names.
Research has found that dolphins use their unique vocal whistles to identify and differentiate one another. When a specific call was played back to the dolphins, they would respond differently each time.
Mars’ sunset is blue.
Mars has less than 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere. Sunsets on Mars look blue because its atmosphere captures mostly blue light from the sun.
Hundreds of rare animals and plants thrive in the North Korea-South Korea border.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is 155 miles of untouched land that separates North and South Korea. In these heavily fortified fences, several endangered animal and plant species thrive. Ecologists identified around 2,900 plant species, 70 mammal species, and 320 bird species in this narrow buffer zone.
@michaelmyersofdecatur It’s Friday the 13th everyone!!!