Diamondbacks Reacts Survey: Who’ll be our MVP?
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 08: Corbin Carroll #7, Geraldo Perdomo #2 and Ketel Marte #4 of the Arizona Diamondbacks celebrate after defeating the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on September 08, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) | Getty Images Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Diamondbacks fans and fans across the country.
Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. It has been a rough start for two of the the three most valuable players on the Diamondbacks last year. While Corbin Carroll has started off like he had just lined a pitch down into the right-field corner, both Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo have been slow out of the gate.
However, it’s a marathon, not a sprint, and it would be foolish to extrapolate a sample of a mere dozen games to a whole season. Or is it? That’s what this week’s poll is about.
Last year, this trio were head and shoulders above anyone else on the team, led by Perdomo who was worth at least seven wins by both bWAR and fWAR. I’d say it is likely those three will again reach the finish line as the team’s three best players. But which one will come out on top?
Carroll has an early lead, but coming into today’s game he has a BABIP of . 346, fifty-five points better than league average of . 291 (perhaps surprisingly given his speed, Carroll’s career BABIP is only .