Corbin

Carroll

Carroll was hitless through his first four plate appearances before stepping to the plate in the tenth. He gave the Diamondbacks the lead with a two-run blast off Tanner Scott. The 24-year-old outfielder is up to 15 homers while hitting .277/.349/.597 with 40 runs scored, 34 RBI and nine steals across 229 plate appearances.

Carroll also drew a walk. He was literally the D-Backs’ offense Monday night — at least when it comes to scoring plays — and both homers came off an otherwise-effective Justin Verlander. Carroll now has 13 homers, and the fears about the former Rookie of the Year’s power being sapped at this point last year seem so long ago. Carroll has been as good as any fantasy outfielder this season not named Aaron Judge, and everything he’s shown for the bulk of his career suggests he’ll finish the year ranking near the top.

Carroll was one of the few bright spots for the Diamondbacks on Wednesday afternoon as he reached base safely in all four of his plate appearances out of the leadoff spot, while also slugging his 11th round-tripper of the season in the eighth inning against Mets reliever Max Kranick. He’s gone deep twice in his last three games. The 24-year-old fantasy superstar has put together an MVP-caliber start to the season, hitting .297/.370/.613 with 30 runs scored, 11 homers, 28 RBI and five steals through 37 games.

Carroll got the party started for the D-Backs with a solo homer off Griffin Canning to leadoff the game. The 2023 Rookie of the Year would also single and draw a walk. Carroll has been slumping over the last few weeks, but still has posted an impressive 10 homers, 27 RBI and .287/.352/.593 slash over the first 35 games.

Carroll hit a leadoff homer in the first inning, and he came up big with a solo homer in the seventh to give the D-Backs a 5-4 lead. The 24-year-old has now hit nine homers, and it’s worth pointing out that Carroll didn’t reach that total in 2024 until August 7. The 2023 Rookie of the Year clearly was going through some things in the first half of last season. To say he’s not going through those things to begin 2025 is quite the understatement.

The rest of the Diamondbacks went 1-for-28 in this one. Although he did eventually recover from his very rough start last year, Carroll finished up 2024 with a .231 average. He’s at .341 right now, and he’s already one-third of the way to last year’s homer total (seven to 22). He’s looking like an MVP-caliber player at the moment.

Carroll also scored twice. The outfielder entered Thursday with just the one steal, but he quadrupled that total by stealing second base twice and grabbing third another. Carroll swiped 89 bags over the last two seasons, and while asking for three steals in a game is asking a lot, multi-theft games are coming.

Carroll’s homer off George Soriano was projected at 434 feet. He’s tied for second in the majors with six homers in 17 games, and he leads the NL with a .735 slugging percentage. It took him 96 games to hit his sixth homer last year.

Carroll hit a double in the ninth to score a pair that had an exit velocity of 111.7 mph off his left-handed bat. The 24-year-old has been outstanding — outstanding probably undersells it — to open 2025 with a .322/.412/.695 slash. To say that he’s off to a better start to his campaign than 2024 is the understatement of understatements.

Carroll was hit by a pitch to lead off the bottom of the first and scored on a groundout. He later took Charlie Morton deep for a solo homer to lead off the third and added a base hit in the seventh. The 24-year-old outfielder is up to four homers on the season while slashing .304/.407/.696 across 54 plate appearances. The steals are bound to come.