{"id":632024,"date":"2026-03-19T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:44:26","slug":"diamondbacks-carlos-santana-returns-to-cactus-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632024\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; Carlos Santana: Returns to Cactus League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773938665_387_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\/1208743\/santana\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santana<\/a> started at first base and went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored in Wednesday&#8217;s spring game against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Santana played in his first Cactus League game since returning from the World Baseball Classic, in which he played for Team Dominican Republic. For the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diamondbacks<\/a>, Santana is expected to share first base with Pavin Smith (forearm) and get regular turns as a designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santana started at first base and went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored in Wednesday&#8217;s spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,1717,38,28,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-632024","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-carlos-santana","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-fantasy-baseball","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116256852070934820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632024","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=632024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632024\/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=632024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}