Cactus League record: 7-7. Change on 2016: -3.5.
I know it’s only spring training, but Taijuan Walker has looked pretty damn awesome for the Diamondbacks. Today, he may have been facing a Milwaukee Brewers line-up that was only at 50% strength - this being a split-squad day for them - but he carved up the Brewers like a wire slicing through a block of Wisconsin’s finest dairy-product. He faced one batter over the minimum, a two-out walk in the fourth inning being the only batter to reach, and Taijuan fanned eight of the 13 men he faced, including six consecutive hitters.