The D-backs got the 2025 Winter Meetings off to a quick start, agreeing to a one-year deal with right-hander Michael Soroka on Monday morning, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The teams have not confirmed the deal.

Soroka made 17 starts and pitched 89 2/3 innings in 2025, his largest workload since his stellar rookie season with the Braves in 2019 . That year, at age 21, he had a 2.68 ERA in 29 starts, making the National League All-Star team and finishing sixth in NL Cy Young Award voting and second in NL Rookie of the Year Award balloting.

Between the Nationals and Cubs in 2025, the right-hander -- in his age-27 season -- showed some flashes of the promise he displayed before tearing (then re-tearing) his right Achilles tendon and missing all of 2021 and ‘22. Soroka finished

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