Team News
What’s on tap for D-backs at Winter Meetings?
“I know the deals that get done at the Meetings are splashier, because there are more people around paying attention to it,” Hazen said. “I think, in reality, the majority of all the work that you’re going to get done for the offseason, a lot of it gets [started] during the Meetings, and then the work comes after that.” https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/d-backs-2025-winter-meetings-preview
Report: Cubs targeting Diamondbacks free agent Zac Gallen
The report comes as USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported on Saturday that Gallen and the Cubs were nearing an agreement on a multi-year deal. However, Nightengale later reported that the Cubs were “hopeful” on finalizing an agreement but the deal was not done and other teams were still in contention.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan later reported that Gallen does not have a deal and was not close to finalizing one.
https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/zac-gallen-9/3604769/
Arizona Diamondbacks Sign Gerardo Carrillo
It doesn’t seem particularly likely that Carrillo will be making his MLB debut with the D-backs this season, but as 2025 exemplified, a team can never have too many arms. Carrillo does have the ability to create plenty of swing-and-miss, but has also issued quite a few walks in his career.
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/diamondbacks-sign-former-rangers-reliever-carrillo
Diamondbacks Sign Former White Sox Infielder
Perhaps Amaya enters a utility infield battle alongside the likes of Jordan Lawlar in Spring Training, but he’ll probably be relegated to almost exclusively Triple-A innings.
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/diamondbacks-sign-former-white-sox-infielder-amaya
Diamondbacks Re-Sign Reliever
But at the non-tender deadline this offseason, Rashi was not given a contract by the D-backs, and he entered free agency. The decision came as a bit of a surprise, but he’ll ultimately come back to the organization to try and earn a role again.
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/diamondbacks-re-sign-reliever-rashi
Zac Gallen’s Market is Increasing and it Could Benefit the D-backs
“The Angels, Giants and Tigers are among the teams in on Gallen, sources said, with the Orioles, Cubs and Braves also looking at the 30-year-old. If the price tag on starters such as [Ranger] Suárez, [Tatsuya] Imai and [Framber] Valdez feel too high for some clubs, Gallen could be a strong alternative,” Feinsand wrote. https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/zac-gallen-market-increasing-benefit-d-backs
Other Baseball
Nationals To Trade Jose Ferrer To Mariners For Harry Ford
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/nationals-to-trade-jose-ferrer-to-mariners-for-harry-ford.html
Mariners acquire LHP Jose Ferrer from Nationals for prospectshttps://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47226495/mariners-acquire-lhp-jose-ferrer-nationals-prospects
Each team’s biggest need entering the Winter Meetings
https://www.mlb.com/news/each-team-s-biggest-need-entering-2025-winter-meetings
Hall of Fame to announce Contemporary Era ballot results tonight
https://www.mlb.com/news/contemporary-baseball-era-hall-of-fame-ballot-for-2025
The latest buzz on the top free agents entering Winter Meetings
https://www.mlb.com/news/free-agent-market-rumors-winter-meetings
Anything Goes
This day in history:
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This day in baseball:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/December_7
⅔ of vegetarians in America eat meat.
A 2003 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that 66% of self-proclaimed vegetarians eat meat. For the first week, they randomly phoned 13,313 Americans to ask their diet preferences. A week later, they phoned back to ask whether the vegetarians had eaten meat in the last 24 hours
The first morse code message was, “What hath God Wrought.”
Morse code is a nonverbal language system where one communicates with a series of short and long sounds. The first morse code message was taken from the Bible passage, Numbers 23:23. It was recorded on a paper tape. Samuel Morse and Alfred Lewis Vail.
Vladimir Pravik was one of the first firefighters to reach the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26th, 1986. The radiation was so strong that it changed his eye color from brown to blue. Like the majority of the first responders to the radioactive disaster, Vladimir died 15 days later from severe radiation poisoning.
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