2025 Roster Dark Horse: Tim Tawa

When the team added prospect names to the 40-man roster earlier this winter, in order to protect them in the Rule 5 draft, it was interesting that they chose to protect less-heralded names, in pitcher Joe Elbis and position player Tim Tawa. When Fangraphs listed Arizona’s best prospects, both were well outside the top 10: Elbis was #15 and Tawa #21. But it feels as if the latter in particular, could offer a potential answer to the right-handed shortage currently faced by the D-backs line-up. There are currently sixteen position players on Arizona’s 40-man roster. Only six are purely right-handers, and half of those have had little or no success at the major-league level.

That includes Tawa,…