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Diaz, 23, has spent his first seven professional seasons bouncing around the minor leagues in the Red Sox organization. He made 27 starts for Double-A Portland in 2015, compiling a 5.47 ERA, 1.57 WHIP and 86/59 K/BB ratio over 136 2/3 innings. He’ll provide organizational rotation depth for the Padres.

Paris delivered the equalizer in the fifth inning, plating Gustavo Campero with an RBI single off of Jaxon Wiggins that made it a 4-4 ballgame. He then scored the go-ahead run on Chris Taylor’s RBI double. After bursting onto the scene in 2025, Paris is going to need a very strong showing in Cactus League play in order to secure a bench spot on the Halos’ Opening Day roster.

Campero did his damage in the fifth inning, smacking a two-run triple off of Jaxon Wiggins that pulled the Halos to within a run at 4-3. He then scored the tying run as Kyren Paris delivered an RBI single. The 28-year-old outfielder is hitting .250 (2-for-8) with three RBI in the early going this spring as he looks to secure a reserve role on the Angels’ Opening Day roster.

On the plus side, the 27-year-old hurler did manage to punch out four batters on the afternoon while issuing just one free pass. The Cubs scratched out a run in the opening inning on an RBI double by Dylan Carlson. Soriano then allowed a Pedro Ramirez sacrifice fly in the second inning and plunked Michael Busch with the bases loaded to force in another. Despite the ineffectiveness, Soriano threw 40 of his 59 pitches for strikes in the contest and showed increased velocity across the board, averaging 98.9 mph on his fastball (+1.0 mph). He’ll need to work on that 17.18 ERA though if fantasy managers are going to have any confidence in him heading into the start o the regular season.

The former top prospect opened the scoring in the ballgame with an RBI double off of José Soriano in the top half of the first inning. He then added a run-scoring single in the fourth inning that extended the Cubs’ lead to 4-1. He’s facing an uphill battle at earning a spot on the Cubs’ Opening Day roster, but is off to a terrific start — hitting .500 (4-for-8) with a couple of RBI and a 2/3 K/BB ratio.

The 35-year-old southpaw made a statement in the opening inning, getting Zach Neto on a ground ball before striking out Mike Trout and Yoan Moncada in succession. He then got a couple of weak ground balls to start the second before punching out Travis d’Arnaud. With his pitch count in a manageable range, Boyd returned for the third where he once again set down the Angels in order. Overall, he threw 23 of his 34 pitches for strikes, generating seven swings and misses and registering a CSW of 29 percent. This is likely to be his final start before Boyd leaves to join the Team USA for the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

De La Cruz has a homer, a triple and three doubles in nine trips to the plate this spring. Fully healed from the quad tear he suffered last July and played through the rest of the way, he should get back to looking like he did in 2024. He’s worthy of a selection in the back half of round one in drafts.

The run came on a 333-foot homer that left Rodolfo Durán’s bat at 94.1 mph. It would have been out of just one major league ballpark. Otherwise, Burnes was pretty much untouchable. He generated 14 misses on 23 swings in the 48-pitch outing. On the nine swings against his slider, he got eight whiffs and one foul ball.

Ashcraft has a chance of emerging as the Reds’ best reliever this year, but one wouldn’t know that based on today’s results. He gave up four hits, including a Manny Machado homer, and two walks before being pulled. In 65 1/3 innings last season, he didn’t give up a single homer to a right-handed hitter and only two to lefties.

Pivetta showed pretty good velocity in his spring debut and pitched around a first-inning triple from Elly De La Cruz, but the Reds worked two walks and got two hits against him in the second.

Machado is typically pretty quiet most springs — he hasn’t had more than two homers or six RBI in an entire Cactus League season since joining the Padres in 2019 — but he certainly made his presence known today. He’ll soon join the Dominican team in the WBC, and he figures to get most of the playing time at third base with José Ramírez absent initially and Junior Caminero likely to DH.