Arizona Diamondbacks fans thrilled as team locks up young star Corbin Carroll with eight-year, $111 million contract: "Whoa baby" "Incredible deal"
The Arizona Diamondbacks took a big step into their franchise rebuild Saturday by agreeing to an eight-year, $111 million contract extension with budding star Corbin Carroll.
Carroll, inked in as the Diamondbacks' centerfielder of the future, wowed fans earlier this week by showing off his speed in blazing around the bases for a triple in a Spring Training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Outfielder Corbin Carroll and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on an eight-year, $111 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN.
Carroll, 22, is widely regarded as a future star. With this deal, he’ll be the centerpiece for an ascendant Diamondbacks team.
Carroll, the 16th pick in the 2019 draft, has slotted in to be the leadoff hitter for a youthful Arizona team this season. Not set to turn 23 until August, his playmaking abilities and blinding speed rocketed him up the minor league ranks before he made his big league debut for 32 games late last season.
Carroll hit .260 with nine doubles, two triples and four home runs over 104 at-bats. However, he struck out 31 times while walking just eight times.
Whoa baby!! @Fantrax @Mustbethehawk @TWS_Irish twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Holy steal twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
THAT’S IT?? He’s arguably the best prospect in baseball twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
News of Corbin Carroll's contract extension brought praise for the Arizona Diamondbacks from fans around the league. These fans are now clamoring for their teams to lock up their young potential superstars as well.
Incredible, incredible deal.
Yankees should do this with Volpe once they bring him up. twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Steal of all steals. Tigers need to do this with Riley Greene asap twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Pay them studs before it’s too late twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Carroll hasn't established himself as a dominant base-stealer as of yet. He attempted just three steals in his 32 major league games last season and was caught once.
However, that small sample size of stats isn't keeping Diamondbacks fans from dreaming big about the five-tool possibilities Corbin seems to possess.
Potentially massive W move for the D Backs. If he turns into what he’s supposed to that’s gonna be massive twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Hell. Yes. twitter.com/JeffPassan/sta…
Local kid gets paid $$ twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Many fans on Twitter were curious as to why young players like Carroll sign contracts for low dollar amounts when they could potentially cash in during the years to come. However, it's not like $111 million isn't a lot of money - especially for a 22-year-old.
People saying this is a fleeced when they have no idea how Carroll’s career is gonna be over the next 8 years. You can’t assume anything. This is life changing money for him and his family while skipping all his pre-arbitration and arb years where he could be getting underpaid twitter.com/jeffpassan/sta…
Corbin Carroll blazed through Arizona Diamondbacks minor-league system
Corbin Carroll played in just 174 minor league games before his call-up to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
He hit .302 overall in stops at Class A, Double-A and Triple-A, and pounded out 22 home runs total for three separate Arizona farm clubs in 2022. However, predicting 50, 60 or more stolen bases from him in 2023 may be far-fetched as he stole just 32 over his 174 games in the minors.