{"id":715221,"date":"2026-06-02T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/715221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:24:21","slug":"diamondbacks-reinstate-pavin-smith-from-60-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/715221\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Reinstate Pavin Smith From 60-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since the end of March, the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> are getting their injury-riddled first baseman<\/a> back.<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks announced on Monday that they’re reinstating first baseman Pavin Smith<\/a> from the 60-day injured list and are optioning Tim Tawa<\/a> to Triple-A Reno. Arizona additionally transferred fellow first baseman Carlos Santana<\/a> to the 60-day IL with a strained right adductor as another corresponding move.<\/p>\n

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Smith played in just the first two games of this season before he was initially placed on the 10-day IL with left elbow inflammation. Arizona later transferred Smith to the 60-day IL in mid-April to undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his left elbow.<\/p>\n

Injuries have plagued Smith over the past couple of seasons after he showed so much promise at the outset of his big league career. The former seventh-round draft pick was limited to just 87 games last year when a strained right oblique sidelined Smith from July 6 to August 18th.<\/p>\n

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Smith has also only played 100 or more games once in his seven-year career, playing 145 games in 2021.<\/p>\n

Despite returning from the aforementioned oblique injury, the 30-year-old landed back on the shelf less than two weeks later due to a strained left quadriceps, which ended his season. During those 87 games in 2025, Smith slashed .258\/.362\/.434 with eight home runs, 28 RBI and two stolen bases.<\/p>\n

Smith will now rejoin a D-backs team that enters Monday having been swept by the Seattle Mariners<\/a> over the weekend. However, they are still in third place in the NL West at 31-27 and return home to the desert tonight to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, with Smith expected to be available.<\/p>\n

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As for Santana, the 40-year-old inked a one-year, $2 million deal with the Diamondbacks in the offseason. He’s been on the IL since April 7 and has appeared in just eight games, going just 2-for-24 (.083) at the plate with eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the MLB<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since the end of March, the Arizona Diamondbacks are getting their injury-riddled first baseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,1717,38,57,4,352,65,4622],"class_list":["post-715221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-santana","tag-diamondbacks","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-pavin-smith","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-tim-tawa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116679558029028684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715221","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=715221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}