Arizona Diamondbacks star outfielder Corbin Carroll has an injured right hand, but not an injured left hand.
What seems obvious was amplified on the day of the Diamondbacks’ first spring training game on Friday, Feb. 20, when Carroll was seen swinging the bat in the cage. While many would never expect Carroll to swing the bat with a broken hamate bone in his right hand, he found a way to swing the bat with no impact on his right hand whatsoever:
Swinging with only his left hand may be a bit unconventional. Surely, however, he has earned the trust of his coaches after a top-five National League Most Valuable Player voting finish in his rookie year (2023) and a Silver Slugger campaign in 2025. If he believes these one-handed swings will help him return to the lineup by Opening Day, so be it.
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Of course, some folks on X think they have better injury-management chops than the Diamondbacks do on their franchise cornerstone. Some examples of those comments on the original video posted (from Aram Leighton of Just Baseball) include:
The DBacks trust Carroll over other opinions, though, and many on X are on board with that:
Carroll knows his body best, as he not only survived an injury scare in the middle of 2023 and won Rookie of the Year by season’s end, but followed that by leading baseball in triples the next two seasons (14 and 17, respectively) and scoring at least 107 runs in both seasons. He stole at least 32 bases in each of those seasons and posted an .815 OPS across the two years.
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Carroll was in the dugout for the Diamondbacks’ first game (and win) of spring training. While he may not be healthy enough to be penciled into the lineup, Carroll’s mindset has not changed at all this time around at Salt River Fields.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll finds unorthodox way to train with injury