{"id":950801,"date":"2026-11-03T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950801\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T07:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:24:11","slug":"diamondbacks-outright-pavin-smith-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950801\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Outright Pavin Smith – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diamondbacks sent first baseman\u00a0Pavin Smith<\/a> outright off the roster, according to the MiLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. That\u2019ll drop their 40-man roster tally to 33.<\/p>\n

Smith always seemed likely to lose his roster spot this offseason. Arizona already sent him through outright waivers around the All-Star Break. They called him back up in September in hope of finding a jolt against right-handed pitching. Smith managed a pinch-hit, walk-off home run to beat the Yankees on September 19 and had a big final two weeks. He had hit just .141\/.236\/.192 in 89 plate appearances before losing his MLB spot, though.<\/p>\n

MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected Smith for a $2.5MM arbitration salary. This functions as an early non-tender of the former #7 overall pick. Smith will almost certainly file for free agency in the next day or two. He\u2019ll take a league average .242\/.325\/.398 career slash line to the open market. Arizona will be in the market for left-handed bats and will need to acquire at least one player to slot at first base or designated hitter.<\/p>\n

Jake Bauers<\/a> is the top free agent first baseman but is attached to a qualifying offer and likely out of Arizona\u2019s price range.\u00a0Ty France<\/a>,\u00a0Alec Bohm<\/a>,\u00a0Josh Bell<\/a>, Nathaniel Lowe<\/a>,\u00a0Joc Pederson<\/a>,\u00a0Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> and\u00a0George Springer<\/a> are available as free agent first base\/DH types. The trade market could feature\u00a0Andrew Vaughn<\/a> (especially if Bauers accepts the QO to stay in Milwaukee),\u00a0Spencer Torkelson<\/a>,\u00a0Royce Lewis<\/a> and\u00a0Jake Burger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks sent first baseman\u00a0Pavin Smith outright off the roster, according to the MiLB.com transaction tracker. That\u2019ll drop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,33767,85],"class_list":["post-950801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-pavin-smith","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}