Diamondbacks News
(Burn City Sports) Ketel Marte named as finalist for talented 2025 National League All-Star team
Ketel Marte’s red-hot season just earned him a well-deserved All-Star nod as the Arizona Diamondbacks star was named as a National League All-Star finalist at second base, the MLB announced on Thursday.
(AZ Central) Will Corbin Carroll’s injury change the Diamondbacks’ trade deadline approach?
Losing right fielder Corbin Carroll to a fractured wrist does not mean the Diamondbacks are certain to sell at the trade deadline. But it does mean avoiding that outcome will be more difficult, a reality Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen acknowledged this week.
“For sure, it’s going to hurt,” Hazen said. “I feel like we have other good players to step in. I feel like this team was operating in a way where it would win games 8-4. We’re going to have to win games 4-2 now. We have the ability to do that.”
(Sports Illustrated) Diamondbacks Pitcher Gives Strong Take on Manager Torey Lovullo
On Thursday, Nelson spoke highly of Lovullo’s handling of the situation in an interview with MLB Network radio. Nelson said his manager is the type of man whose actions back up his words.
“It’s one thing for a guy to say that he loves his players, and that he cares about his players, but it’s another thing for a guy to show it, and I think the way he handled [the Marte situation], he wasn’t doing what he thought he should do, he was doing… what he needed to do, and what he felt was the right way to handle that situation,” Nelson said.
MLB News
(USA Today) MLB at the midway point: Cal Raleigh’s HR pace could deny Aaron Judge a Triple Crown
Major League Baseball’s halfway point has arrived for a significant number of ballclubs, a time to take stock and responsibly project what wild trends and paces may become reality when October arrives.
The standings reveal plenty of ambiguity, evidenced by the utterly cloudy trade deadline picture that will likely reveal a dud of a July trade bazaar. Yet there are several team and individual exploits – some ignominious – coming into view as the field reaches the turnaround point and heads for home.
(Yahoo! Sports) The worst 81-game starts in MLB history
This team seems stuck in an endless rebuild, last finishing above .500 in 2018. And with MLB’s 18th-ranked farm system, and few if any veterans worth trading for prospects at the deadline, there isn’t much hope of them getting better anytime soon. If the second half of their season goes the same as the first, they’ll finish with by far the worst run differential (-426) and record (36-126) in modern MLB history* (since 1901).
But let’s get back to the supernatural because that’s where his game lives. Since returning he hasn’t missed a beat. In just 31 games, Acuña is slashing .369/.485/.658 with a 1.143 OPS and nine homers while also posting a 2.2 wins above replacement. That’s a higher WAR total than Mookie Betts. A total higher than Freddie Freeman. A smidge less than Juan Soto and Acuña’s teammate, Matt Olson.
The question always remains: How? How has Acuña returned to his MVP-level self after a second ACL tear and major surgery in four years?
(Yahoo! Sports) MLB All-Star voting leaders: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani named as automatic starters
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