{"id":628302,"date":"2026-03-17T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628302\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:24:28","slug":"diamondbacks-james-mccann-ready-if-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628302\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; James McCann: Ready if needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773677483_236_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/330.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/1935464\/mccann\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCann<\/a> went 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI and an additional run scored in Monday&#8217;s spring game against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>McCann swatted his first home run of the Cactus League and is batting .214 over 28 spring at-bats. He&#8217;s expected to serve as the backup to Gabriel Moreno (forearm) but could be needed for more depending on the starter&#8217;s recovery. <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diamondbacks<\/a> manager Torey Lovullo told Alex Weiner of Arizona Sports on Monday that Moreno will begin a throwing program next week, which is also the week when the regular season begins. Lovullo is confident there&#8217;s enough time for the injured catcher to ramp up for Opening Day. If not, McCann is ready.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCann went 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI and an additional run scored in Monday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,28,1198,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-628302","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-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-fantasy-baseball","14":"tag-james-mccann","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116245212826698632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628302","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=628302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}