I'd expect Matt Boyd and Taylor Cole to both be in AA/AAA and essentially auditioning for a potential mid-season call up in the wake of this injury. Castro could get an aggressive assignment or early promotion as well.
If you go to Fangraphs "Positional Depth Charts" and look at C, the Diamondbacks are listed at #31.
#1 - San Francisco
#2 - Toronto
...
#30 - Remaining Free Agents (Ryan Doumit and Brett Hayes)
#31 - Arizona
Young guys Cedric Paquette and Dmitrij Jaskin are available for upgrades. Google them! They're good!
Both have offensive upside. Jaskin has 109 hits in 38 games. Paquette has 105 hits + 51 blocks in 55 games (both while playing third line minutes, although Jaskin has been getting increased playing time).
Trying to win now so needs to be a clear playoff upgrade for my team.
Shaun Marcum served one up to Welington Castillo a bit later too.
Marcum's last MLB highlight was "Marcum pitches with dragonfly on his hat" from 2013.
Abrupt career endings while a guy is still at the top of his game are never fun. Hopefully Cliff gets right and has a few more seasons. With his repertoire he could probably sit 88 and still be a solid #3.
Drafted and developed him but after getting some HD looks at his tiny little knees on Sportsnet, I decided to cut ties.
Stroman+Tapia+Renfroe for Votto+N.Walker.
Not really a huge blow to Sammy because the trade he made was in the rebuilding vein anyway. So maybe he just gets a better draft slot now.
The Stroman catastrophe increases the motivation to trade Navarro for an arm.
Are there any potentially available arms that could pitch either in middle/late relief, or in the rotation? A swing-man with power stuff, maybe?