Carroll has been everything the Diamondbacks could have hoped for, winning Rookie of the Year and finishing fifth in NL MVP voting in 2023, being named to a pair of All-Star teams, and emerging as one of the top power/speed players in the game who on Friday against the Red Sox reached the 30-homer plateau for the first time. There are no guarantees about the future, but Carroll has been on a track that would have potentially netted him a landmark contract had he pursued free agency after his age-27 season in 2028. “Regardless of what the dollars and cents might say, just having that little extra bit of security as a young player is a unique experience in a game where young players have so little security,” said Carroll. “For him to still be hitting free agency right after his age-30 season, around there, that’s great to see that he’ll have another opportunity where, if he’s the player everyone thinks he’s going to be, that will be his big contract,” said Carroll.