Back to Salt River Fields for the D-backs, who are now without most of their expected starting infield. Carlos Santana, Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo are now off to join their country for the World Baseball Classic, so won’t be back for a while. It’ll therefore be up to Nolan Arenado to marshal the infield in their absence, and that’s what we see in the line-up today. Luken Baker, Tommy Troy and Jose Fernandez take over for the trio named above, with Arenado and Alek Thomas perhaps the only players who’ll be in our Opening Day line-up. Which is now this month, folks. Welcome to March!
Michael Soroka, who now looks to be back in the rotation to start the year, following Merrill Kelly’s issues, gets his second start of spring. So I’d expect him to try and get through three innings this afternoon. He allowed a run on two hits and a walk over two innings his first time out, with three strikeouts. We should get to see some familiar names out of the bullpen after Soroka, with the following potentially on the list: LHP Kohl Drake, RHP Kevin Ginkel, RHP Ryan Thompson, RHP Drey Jameson, RHP Shawn Dubin, RHP Alfred Morillo and LHP Spencer Giesting.
Again, no TV for this one, but as was the case yesterday, you can tune in on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM or online, with Chris Garagiola & Brandon Webb bringing you the game.
Finally, the first big bunch of roster moves for Arizona this morning.
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