Corbin

Carroll

MLB’s 2026 schedule had both teams with Friday and Monday off surrounding a two-game series in Arizona, so it was obvious something was up. Those games will be played at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú Béisbol in Mexico City. Expect a couple of high-scoring affairs; when the Padres and Giants played there in 2023, the two teams combined for 37 runs between the two games.

A pair of the most exciting young outfielders in the game will join team captain Aaron Judge along with Cal Raleigh and Paul Skenes for the upcoming international tournament next spring. Carroll notched his first Silver Slugger Award this past season when he compiled an .883 OPS with a career-high 31 homers and 32 steals in 143 games. Meanwhile, PCA blossomed into an overnight sensation for the Cubs, registering an extremely impressive 31-homer, 35-steal campaign.

The American League winners will be announced on Friday night. Here is the complete list of winners for the senior circuit: Hunter Goodman (C), Pete Alonso (1B), Ketel Marte (2B), Manny Machado (3B), Geraldo Perdomo (SS), Juan Soto (OF), Corbin Carroll (OF), Kyle Tucker (OF), Ohtani (DH) and Alec Burleson (UTIL). Ohtani has claimed the award in back-to-back seasons since joining the Dodgers and four times overall in his career. Soto takes home the honor in his Mets debut, giving him six in eight seasons. At this rate, he might need an entire room just to display them all by the time his 15-year megadeal is through. Alonso, Perdomo, Goodman, Carroll and Burleson are all first-time winners.

Carroll finishes as one of only seven players this season to record a 30-homer, 30-steal campaign. The 25-year-old fantasy superstar ends with a .259/.343/.541 slash line with a big-league leading 17 triples to go along with 107 runs scored, 31 round-trippers, 84 RBI and 32 thefts in 143 games. He’ll be a first-round selection in all fantasy drafts until further notice.

It’s a well-earned day off for both Carroll and Marte after the injury-ravaged Diamondbacks were officially eliminated from playoff contention on Friday night with a loss to the Padres. The tandem figure to be ready to roll for Sunday’s series finale against San Diego, but it wouldn’t be a complete shock to see them get the entire weekend off to rest and recover after a long season.

Carroll joins Juan Soto, José Ramírez and Jazz Chisholm Jr. as the lone members of the 30-homer, 30-steal club thus season. He opened the scoring in the first inning as he plated Ketel Marte with a fielder’s choice before breaking this contest wide open with a gargantuan 428-foot three-run shot off of Ranger Suárez to cap off a five-run uprising in the second inning. He’s now slashing a healthy .260/.340/.546 on the season with a career-high 31 homers, 83 RBI and 30 stolen bases in 624 plate appearances.

Carroll’s homer is the 30th of the season. The 25-year-old also added his 24th steal of the campaign, and the homer and a single pushes his OPS on the year up to .893. It’d be nice to see Carroll hit for the same kind of average he did in his first taste of MLB action, but a “willingness” to strikeout and sell out for power has made that unlikely. There’s still an awful lot of fantasy upside — realized fantasy upside, to be clear — in Carroll’s left-handed stroke.

Carroll crushed a two-out, 380-foot (103.5 mph EV) three-run shot off of Tanner Scott in the eighth inning to erase a three-run deficit. That would be the extent of their offense in the game though. The 25-year-old outfielder also singled in the ballgame, finishing the afternoon 2-for-4. On the season, he’s slashing .258/.333/.559 with 29 homers, 71 RBI and 21 stolen bases.

Carroll tripled in the fourth inning and scored on a groundout. He then drove in a run in the fifth with another triple. Carroll hit into a force out and reached first in the seventh before stealing second and scoring his second run. The 24-year-old outfielder is slashing .253/.329/.559 with 27 homers, 84 runs scored, 65 RBI, and 17 steals across 496 plate appearances.

What a loss it was, too, considering that the Diamondbacks outhit the Rockies 13-9, outhomered them 2-0, outwalked them 4-1, went 4-for-4 stealing bases and committed no errors to the Rockies’ two. Carroll’s homer was his sixth this month. He’s driven in 14 runs and scored 13 times in 16 games during August.