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The Diamondbacks had the worst record in all of Major League Baseball in 2014. Fixing a team that lost a league leading 98 games last season is difficult. It’s even more difficult when the team doesn’t have a bunch of cash to spend in attempts to upgrade the roster. Just like last year, the Diamondbacks find themselves in a …
Continue Reading →With the minor league season officially ending yesterday (albeit with a Diamondbacks affiliate on the losing end of a championship-deciding game five), Inside the ‘Zona will be taking an in-depth look at each of the organization’s seven minor league affiliates. Through this process, we’ll discuss each team’s season, uncover the top prospects on each squad and showcase the notable performances …
Continue Reading →The trade deadline is tomorrow. The Diamondbacks have been sellers since early June. No one is wondering where the Diamondbacks stand in this whole equation. Let’s just start by establishing who’s been traded:
- Joe Thatcher and Tony Campana to the Angels for Zack Borenstein and Joey Krehbiel
- Brandon McCarthy to the Yankees for Vidal Nuno
And let’s just follow that …
Continue Reading →Attempting to draw up and execute an all-encompassing plan for the trade deadline is a bit like forming a battle plan while the battle is already raging. But we’re taking a run at it, because we’re good like that.
It’s a foregone conclusion that the D-backs will be sellers at the deadline this year. We know the front office has …
Continue Reading →On Saturday, the Diamondbacks announced that Tony La Russa will take a newly-created position within the organization: Chief Baseball Officer. The entire baseball operations branch of the club’s front office will now report to La Russa – including General Manager Kevin Towers. We applaud this decision.
Although La Russa has never had a front office position before, we believe his …
Continue Reading →On this site, we’ve been pretty outspoken about our discontent with some of the higher profile moves made by the Diamondbacks front office this offseason. But we were not at all surprised to find that overall, we considered the offseason moves to represent a net positive. To give the front office an overall grade for the offseason, the Inside the …
Continue Reading →This afternoon, the Diamondbacks organization announced that manager Kirk Gibson and GM Kevin Towers had been signed to contract extensions, although it did not disclose terms. Less than an hour later, Nick Piecoro tweeted that OF Gerardo Parra and the D-backs have avoided arbitration with a one-year, $4.85M pact.
The Gibson and Towers deals were somewhat unexpected; when 2015 …
Continue Reading →A lot of things went right for the Diamondbacks and their fans this season, and to celebrate Thanksgiving, we thought we’d pause to share a few of the things we’re thankful for.
Camelback IPA (Jeff Wiser): Aside from my writing here at Inside the Zona, I record the beer drinker’s experience over at BeerGraphs and often blog about stellar …
Continue Reading → The D-backs are in a tough spot this offseason. Payroll constraints will limit the club’s access to the free agent pool. Even if the team is willing to reach the $100M mark, we’ve projected the current roster to cost $99.8M next year. That limitation, as well as logjams at shortstop and center field, have led us to conclude that …
Continue Reading →With the season slipping away a bit, Archie Bradley is on the minds of many Diamondbacks fans, and for good reason; he’s one of the very best pitching prospects in the game right now. Jeff Wiser and I sat down (metaphorically speaking) to hash out our thoughts on his development and possible promotion. Spoiler alert: we didn’t agree on everything, …
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