The Diamondbacks are sellers - MLB

The Diamondbacks have come to grips with the fact that they aren’t very good, which means that it’s selling time in Arizona:

“It’s the middle of June and we’re 10 games under .500, so I think
there’s a reality as far as the types of discussions we have had and
will have with other clubs,” Byrnes said . . .

. . . To this point, Byrnes has given no indication that he is
planning a major overhaul. So, for now, if the team makes a move, look
for it to be with one of the veterans who are in the final year of
their contracts. Pitchers Doug Davis and Jon Garland fit that profile,
as does second baseman Felipe Lopez. The club would certainly like to
deal Chad Tracy if he is able to get back to being healthy and show the
form he had the first couple of weeks of the season.

Davis is useful and is having a good season. Garland is useful, but not
having a particularly good season. Still, both are the types of
pitchers whose value historically peaks around the trade deadline for
reasons that have more to do with the desperation of contenders than
their inherent worth. I’m not smelling that same kind of desperation
this year — at least not yet — but it’s not inconceivable that the
Dbacks could get something valuable for those guys.

Chad Tracy? He of the .203/.262/.373 line and the tender oblique? I have this feeling he’s not going anywhere.

CINCINNATI — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed pitcher Noah Syndergaard on the 15-day injured list Thursday with a blister on the index finger of his right throwing hand.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the timetable for Syndergaard’s return is unknown despite the 15-day designation.

“The physical, the mental, the emotional part, as he’s talked about, has taken a toll on him,” Roberts said. “So, the ability to get him away from this. He left today to go back to Los Angeles to kind of get back to normalcy.”

Syndergaard allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night, raising his ERA to 7.16.

Syndergaard (1-4) has surrendered at least five runs in three straight starts.

Syndergaard has been trying to return to the player he was before Tommy John surgery sidelined him for the better part of the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Roberts said Syndergaard will need at least “a few weeks” to both heal and get away from baseball and “reset.”

“I think searching and not being comfortable with where he was at in the moment is certainly evident in performance,” Roberts said. “So hopefully this time away will provide more clarity on who he is right now as a pitcher.

“Trying to perform when you’re searching at this level is extremely difficult. I applaud him from not running from it, but it’s still very difficult. Hopefully it can be a tale of two stories, two halves when he does come back.”