{"id":586526,"date":"2026-02-22T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/586526\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:57:38","slug":"diamondbacks-news-az-snake-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/586526\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks News | AZ Snake Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/diamondbacks\/onsi\/arizona-diamondbacks-news\/key-d-backs-hitter-first-start-center-field-lawlar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawlar Gets Center Field Nod<\/a><br \/>Once the team takes the field today, Jordan Lawlar will begin to make his case for or against all the faith that has been placed in him over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/diamondbacks\/onsi\/arizona-diamondbacks-news\/diamondbacks-nolan-arenado-honest-spring-homer-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arenado Discusses Full Circle Home Run<\/a><br \/>Jake McCarthy was wearing Colorado purple and Nolan Arenado was wearing Arizona colours. McCarthy showed he still has wheels. Arenado showed he still has pop in his bat. The veteran third baseman reflects on swatting a dinger against the club that brought him up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/diamondbacks\/onsi\/arizona-diamondbacks-news\/diamondbacks-top-prospect-massive-opportunity-waldschmidt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\u2019s Top Prospect Getting a Taste<\/a><br \/>Arizona\u2019s top prospect, Ryan Waldschmidt, is getting an opportunity to impress this spring. The slugging outfielder is unlikely to make the opening day roster, but this is an opportunity to put himself on the fast track to MLB promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/bill-mazeroski-passes-away.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Mazerowski Passes Away at 89<\/a><br \/>The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that 17-year Pirate, and Hall of Famer, Bill Mazerowski passed away yesterday. As one of the greatest Bucs of all-time, he will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawlar Gets Center Field NodOnce the team takes the field today, Jordan Lawlar will begin to make his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,75962,14273,4314,5,38,4,39029],"class_list":{"0":"post-586526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-discussion","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-news","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-diamondbacks","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-snake-bytes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116114400629928357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}