Well, this sucks. News out of Salt River Fields this morning, that Corbin Carroll suffered a broken hamate bone in his right hand, during live batting practice. This is going to cause him to miss significant time in spring training, and almost certainly on into the regular season. We do not know yet how bad the injury is, but in general it would be an 8-10 week recovery time, which would definitely be the first couple of weeks of regular season games, at the very least. But hands are tricky things, and there’s no guarantee that he will be back to full strength and capacity at the end of that time.
The D-backs were already thin in the outfield, after the trades of Jake McCarthy and Blaze Alexander, and the ongoing injury of Lourdes Gurriel Jr. That leaves just Jorge Barrosa and Alek Thomas the only healthy outfielders on the 40-man roster. The Ryan Waldschmidt era might end up arriving sooner than we would have liked…