The D-backs 2025 outfield collectively took a step back from their previous performances, continuing what could be seen as a potentially worrying trend. In 2023, the three positions combined to be worth 2.4 bWAR Above Average (bWAA). In 2024, that figure dropped to 1.7 bWAA, and this year, it dropped below the average, coming it at -0.9 bWAA. That was despite an MVP level performance from Corbin Carroll, who improved his production last season by close to two and a half wins. Obviously, it’s safe to say that Carroll wasn’t the issue. But there were questions to be asked, even before Lourdes Gurriel blew his knee out in the first game of September.

Indeed, Gurriel himself was one of those issues – and his likely unavailability for the first half of 2026 makes things worse. The three-year,

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