PHOENIX — Like the fans, Arizona Diamondbacks star outfielder Corbin Carroll is in tune with what’s going on in Major League Baseball as the stove warms during the offseason.

He’s looking out for more than roster moves, however.

Carroll told the Ain’t No Fang podcast on Friday that keeping track of pitching trends and finding ways to more effectively monitor his own data could give him better footing when the season comes back around in the spring.

“Just kind of keep learning about what guys are doing to try and get better,” Carroll said. “Then also too what’s going on out there in the pitching world and what’s kind of the hot topic of the moment. … Just learning a little bit more about what they’re trying to do I think is helpful.”

It is the latest example of Carroll searching for an edge, beyond his athletic gifts. Being the fastest player on the field and having the ability to crush a ball 110 mph off the bat are the tools of a superstar, but so is the preparation that occurs both in June and well into the offseason.

Carroll is a regular at Salt River Fields during the offseason, going through his training with a power and speed phase coming up.

“ Trying to get real explosive,” he said.

Aside from the physical work, Carroll is looking deeper into biomechanics to improve operations going forward, attempting to find answers with his swing from pitch-to-pitch.

“I’m trying to get some systems in place to monitor my in-game data with my hitting and be able to tell if anything is trending in a way that I don’t want,” Carroll said. “That’s hoping, I guess, to bring some more consistency on the hitting side.”

Corbin Carroll told @AintNoFang that he is entering a “power and speed phase” at this point of the offseason and that arm strength and hitting consistency remain focuses for him this winter.

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Carroll told the Baseball is Dead podcast that he found some keys last offseason of not pushing onto the ball of his foot too early and not losing his hip flexion too early, which ended up helping him moving forward.

Carroll has gone through the ups and downs of figuring out how to maintain success in MLB, from struggling after swing adjustments in 2024 to finding what works toward the back end of that campaign.

He was in a great spot this past season at 24 years old, not only with his counting stats (31 home runs and 32 steals) but also with his contact data.

He finished top 23 in MLB in exit velocity, barrel rate, hard hit percentage and bat speed, blowing away his career highs in each metric. He swung-and-missed and struck out more as a byproduct, so finding ways to limit the lulls is part of his offseason adjustment.

Zac Gallen maintains interest in returning to Diamondbacks

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Free agent Zac Gallen spent his Friday evening pitching wiffle balls to kids at the Boys & Girls Club of the Valley, saying the Phoenix community has meant a lot to him over the years.

In a media scrum at the event, Gallen maintained the sentiment he shared after the 2025 season ended, that he would “love to be here for the rest of my career,” but that he is going through the process.

“I think what sometimes gets lost in translation is that it’s not necessarily always up to the player,” Gallen said. “If the opportunity is there and it’s something that we deem is the right fit for us, myself as a player and me and my soon-to-be wife as a family, then yeah, we’ll explore that.”

Gallen admitted that he’s been pretty hands off to this point, saying more of his attention has been taken by his upcoming wedding.

Scott Boras is his agent, and the two have been in contract about which teams have checked in. He hasn’t expected anything to move too quickly, aside from what he called a formality of declining the qualifying offer from Arizona.

“I enjoy playing on a good team, good culture, obviously a good place to pitch is nice, those sort of things,” Gallen said. “We have some other things we’ve kept to ourselves, personally, that are big for us.”

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