Look for young arms early<\/p>\n
The names of the starting pitchers for the first three games of Cactus League play will likely not be familiar except to the diehard fans. Right-hander Tom Hatch will start the opener and there won\u2019t be a veteran going until Michael Soroka following the weekend slate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just going to slow play some things,\u201d D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. \u201cEverybody is going to be ready and built up to six innings and 85 pitches by the time they take their last spring start.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a dozen D-Backs players set to represent their countries in the 2026 World Baseball Classic at the beginning of March, Lovullo is making sure those players get the game reps they need to prepare.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally they wouldn\u2019t be, but I\u2019m trying to fast forward this as much as possible because the entire infield is going to play in the WBC, so I want to get them on the field,\u201d Lovullo said Thursday. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be playing [Alek Thomas] in the outfield tomorrow, but I\u2019m going to, so he can get ready for Team Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Arizona Diamondbacks revealed their 2026 spring training broadcast schedule for their upcoming Cactus League games.<\/p>\n
Eight games will be broadcast free of charge to fans, and will be accessible on D-backs.TV and local TV providers. Fans will not have to pay for a D-backs.TV or MLB.TV subscription in order to view these eight games. All that will be required is a free account, set up with an email address.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, it really is clear that we have a group of teams at the bottom and we have some teams at the top,\u201d Kendrick said. \u201cWe are in neither of those groups, to be fair. A model that would allow those extremes to not be what they are, I think would be good for the fans, and honestly, I think it would be good for the players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Congrats to all of us on making it through another long, dreary winter! Baseball is finally upon us once more, hope springs eternal, and already the hot dogs, cracker jax, and beer is calling my name. Here\u2019s to another season, and maybe, just maybe this team can surprise us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look for young arms early The names of the starting pitchers for the first three games of Cactus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[218549,363,221703,99],"class_list":["post-480075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks-news","tag-mlb","tag-snake-bytes","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}