Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Arizona Diamondbacks fans and fans across the country.
Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.Well, that was somewhat anticlimactic, wasn’t it? It appears the SnakePit readership is highly influenced by recent results and small sample-sizes. 🙂 Because after a mere two weeks of the reason, we are prepared to predict that Corbin Carroll will be the Diamondbacks’
Most Valuable Player for the 2026 season. Poor Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo barely even registered above a flat-line in the voting, to the point that the vague answer of “Someone else” ended up scoring more votes in this poll than Marte and Perdomo combined. That’ll leave a mark. Here are the full results, in a format suitable for framing by the Carroll family.
I mean, it’s not too surprising. Going into play today, Corbin Carroll had been worth 0.8 bWAR. Ketel Marte was at 0.3 bWAR. Geraldo Perdomo? All the way down at -0.2 bWAR. Now one win is something which can very easily be turned around over the course of the five and a half months remaining in the season. Things can, and will, change. Through April 11 last year, the most valuable position players on the D-backs were Carroll, Perdomo and… um, Pavin Smith. So, yeah: past results are no guarantee of future performance, as those financial adverts always like to warn us.
I’m pretty sure we can’t project forward at the same rate. Carroll will not end the year worth ten more wins than Perdomo. I’m pretty sure Perdomo and Marte aren’t going to keep hitting below the Uecker line all season. On the other hand, early results certainly can be predictive, and that value is now in the bank as far as Corbin is concerned. There’s no doubt that the early struggles of Gerry and Ketel are a key reason why the D-backs offense has struggled in the early going. While the pitching had helped take up the slack, an OPS+ of 83, is very rarely playoff caliber. The last team with an OPS that low to make the post-season was in 2007. But it was the D-backs, who won the division, despite being outscored by twenty runs.
