The Arizona Diamondbacks Corbin Carroll slugs an RBI single against the Philadelphia Phillies in game 7 of the NLCS on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at Citizens Bank in Philadelphia on Tue Oct 24, 2023. Carroll could be the Diamondbacks MVP for 2023. (AP News photo)

On the World Series MLB The Show podcast with Stephen Ruderman:

#1 Stephen, how much were the Arizona Diamondbacks built with trades with key players that got them to this season’s World Series.

#2 You had a chance to see the Diamondbacks during the season including at Chase Field on a two game trip against the San Francisco Giants. Was it on that trip you realized these guys were for real or was that earlier in the season?

#3 The Diamondbacks were a team who had surprised everyone they last were in the post season in 2017, they have lost 110 games two years ago and the last three seasons they had finished below .500.

#4 The Diamondbacks have beaten some of the best teams in MLB to get here, they got to the post season winning 84 games and just plowing through the post season.

#5 Stephen, talk about Corbin Carroll he might end up being the Diamondbacks MVP. During the regular season he was key on the offense hitting .285, 161 hits, 25 home runs, 76 RBIs. In Carroll’s last two games in game 1 of the World Series had a triple and a run scored. In game 4 against the Philadelphia Phillies scoring two runs, three hits and an RBI.

Stephen Ruderman is a podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com