Spring record: 5-5. Change on 2016: -1.5.
Taijuan Walker tossed three scoreless innings for the Diamondbacks this afternoon at Salt River Fields, as they evened their Cactus League mark. Walker was remarkably efficient today: he required only seven pitches for the first frame, then eight and eleven for the ones after that, so a mere 26 pitches in total, 19 for strikes. Taijuan retired the first seven batters faced, before a bloop single, which proved to be the only base-runner he allowed. No walks, as that implies, and a pair of strikeouts for him, with Walker sitting around 95 mph, occasionally touching 96.