{"id":427870,"date":"2026-01-23T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427870\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:49:09","slug":"corbin-carroll-breaks-top-10-of-mlb-networks-top-100-list-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427870\/","title":{"rendered":"Corbin Carroll breaks top 10 of MLB Network&#8217;s top 100 list ahead of 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=016901429690765427163:i60nfdckotw&amp;q=https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/carroll-tp-fast\/3607079\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiX-tG7xKCSAxXHC0QIHTASHecQFnoECAYQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw2dLj0sy7Qc-SfgjijhFeTX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Corbin Carroll<\/a> was named by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/2014503350809846215?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB Network<\/a> as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/2014515174665756925?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">top 10 players<\/a> in baseball ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 spots were unveiled on Thursday night, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dbacks\/status\/2014505373915611177?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carroll came in at No. 9<\/a>. After winning the Rookie of the Year award in his second season with the Diamondbacks, Carroll has ranked inside the top 40 for three straight years.<\/p>\n<p>The young star ranked No. 18 in 2024 and No. 32 in 2025. In addition to being ranked the ninth-best player in the league, Carroll is coming off his second All-Star appearance and winning a Silver Slugger.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll joins teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/ketel-marte-12\/3609310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ketel Marte<\/a> (No. 19) and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/geraldo-perdomo-mlb-list\/3609132\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> (No. 24) on MLB Network\u2019s top 100 list.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo led the Diamondbacks in wins above replacement (WAR), hits, doubles and walks, and Carroll and Marte were second and third on the team in all three categories.<\/p>\n<p>All three Diamondbacks will participate in the World Baseball Classic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=016901429690765427163:i60nfdckotw&amp;q=https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/ketel-marte-wbc\/3605410\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj0j-jlxaCSAxWiM0QIHaQcCroQFnoECAUQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gj2UJtThIvsPqNuCpJAVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marte<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=016901429690765427163:i60nfdckotw&amp;q=https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/geraldo-perdomo-wbc\/3605061\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjw86vKxKCSAxUkHUQIHQTwJCM4ChAWegQIARAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xWeH0aYN6DlZJ8CjbpfDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Perdomo<\/a> will play for the Dominican Republic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=016901429690765427163:i60nfdckotw&amp;q=https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/corbin-carroll-13\/3602251\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjw86vKxKCSAxUkHUQIHQTwJCM4ChAWegQICRAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jSTYiwvyHstnGD1mFt1yD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carroll will play for the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carroll\u2019s No. 9 spot on the top 100 list comes after a season that saw career-highs in WAR (5.8), doubles (32), triples (17), home runs (31), RBI (84), SLG (.541) and OPS+ (140).<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing time at the end of June due to a chip fracture in his left wrist, the former first-round pick finished sixth in NL MVP voting.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 two-way star Shohei Ohtani came in at No. 1 on MLB Network\u2019s top 100 list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753329608_871_AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753329608_871_AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll was named by MLB Network as one of the top 10 players in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-427870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}