Posts by: Ryan P. Morrison
There are a few new faces with the Diamondbacks within the last week; Cody Ross is back from the 15-day DL, and Daniel Hudson in on the roster and ready to take the mound again for the first time in over two years. But there was another curious development: a successful waiver claim that brought Nolan Reimold to Arizona from …
Continue Reading →In 161 plate appearances since returning from the DL, Mark Trumbo has just one home run. We checked in with the stats and injury analytics expert Stuart Wallace in search of an explanation.
It’s not that Trumbo has been terrible at the plate since his return — his .254 average is actually better than his .248 career mark. It’s that …
Continue Reading →Jake Lamb‘s promotion to the bigs was not entirely unexpected, but it wasn’t ever the public plan; after all, Lamb had taken some time to adjust to new levels in the minors in the past, and he had spent a grand total of five games with Triple-A Reno. Despite a home run on Saturday, Lamb hasn’t exactly hit the …
Continue Reading →The D-backs have recently stated that they’re after an outfielder and starting pitching this winter (that sounds familiar). But if no outfielder is brought into the fold and injuries aren’t a problem, the D-backs would enter spring training with a five-man outfield of players they’ve already used this season. A.J. Pollock would lead the pack, almost certainly starting every day …
Continue Reading →With just 126.1 innings under his belt this season, one wouldn’t necessarily think that the D-backs have started to count Chase Anderson‘s innings. But with just 88 innings last year and a career innings high of 104, Anderson could be shut down after just 2 or 3 more starts. Unless, of course, he only gets through six outs like …
Continue Reading →It’s not unusual for a team to pass many of its eligible players through revocable waivers in August, and for the Cubs, who may face a pretty serious 40-man roster crunch in the offseason, 26-year-old outfielder Brett Jackson was among the players waived. With the second-highest priority (2nd-worst record in the Cubs’ league), the D-backs claimed Jackson, then completing a …
Continue Reading →In addition to clearing payroll for this season, the D-backs’ deadline moves that saw Martin Prado go to the Yankees and Gerardo Parra to the Brewers erased somewhere around $18M in likely salary for 2015. Clearing that kind of payroll made the underwhelming return on those trades reasonable — but is the team necessarily done?
Theoretically, at least, the D-backs …
Continue Reading →None of this “0.1% chance of the playoffs” nonsense for the Diamondbacks anymore (per FanGraphs/coolstandings); at this point, even if the D-backs accomplished the impossible and ran off a 20-game winning streak, they’d probably still be in third in the division. The D-backs are in fact-finding mode, as they should be, and that’s changed the complexion of the 25-man …
Continue Reading →Things didn’t go so well at the outset of the season, and with playoff chances somehow disappearing in the middle of April before their eyes, the D-backs quickly replaced the struggling Trevor Cahill and Randall Delgado in the rotation. On came the parade of replacements, with the club clearly hoping that something would stick. When Mike Bolsinger had seemingly proven …
Continue Reading →If you’re like me, you were underwhelmed by the minor leaguers that the Diamondbacks received in return for Gerardo Parra (Brewers) and Martin Prado (Yankees). But that doesn’t necessarily mean the trades were bad for the club. We learned last week from Tony La Russa (via Steve Gilbert) that the D-backs were open to the possibility of putting …
Continue Reading →Realistically, could the Diamondbacks’ season have gone any worse? After getting swept in Australia, the team was thirteen games under .500 at the end of April and never recovered. Patrick Corbin and David Hernandez were claimed by the UCL fairy in the spring, with new acquisition Bronson Arroyo following them to the surgeon’s table a few months later. A.J. Pollock…
Continue Reading →The trade deadline looms on Thursday, and with 2014 a completely lost season, there is (and should be) pressure on GM Kevin Towers to cash in as much as he can. It seems from the rumors, however, that players other teams want aren’t the players Towers most wants to move. I know that seems obvious, but it’s not. We’re not …
Continue Reading →In an article posted earlier this week, Jon Heyman wrote that the D-backs have seemed to other teams’ executives that the D-backs “seem just a little bit more cautious than usual now.” That could be more a consequence of the organization’s command structure than a change in philosophy, but with notes coming out that the D-backs are not hot to …
Continue Reading →We all know the story from last year: after the Derek Jeter comparison, Didi Gregorius took the National League by storm, only to see his batting average drop each consecutive month for the rest of the season. But lost with his .182 batting average in September was this: he was actually an above-average hitter. It was just 40 plate appearances …
Continue Reading →It’s a slow week for a roundup, what with no real baseball for four days in the last week — in fact, the D-backs have not lost since last week’s edition! The team managed to win all three games of their series with the Cubs this last weekend, although there were as many good points as bad. Also worth noting: …
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Best part of Peralta’s 108 mph fliner over the fence, IMHO: that he got that much leverage despite scooping it out… https://t.co/ivBrl76adF, 
RT @OutfieldGrass24: If you're bored of watching Patrick Corbin get dudes out, you can check out my latest for @TheAthleticAZ. https://t.co/k1DymgY7zO, - Of course, they may have overtaken the league lead for outs on the bases just now, also...
But in 2017, Arizona ha… https://t.co/38MBrr2D4b,
- Prior to the games today, there had only been 5 steals of 3rd this season (and no CS) in the National League. The… https://t.co/gVVL84vPQ5,
- RT @OutfieldGrass24: Patrick Corbin has a WPA of .318 and it's only the fifth inning.,
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RT @MLBPipeline: Correction:
Oldest players on the #Top100Prospects list:
#Astros' Josh James, 25 (3/08/1993)
#Dbacks' Jon Duplanti… https://t.co/IpgOEtfUrh, - Diamondbacks MiLB affiliate the Missoula Osprey will transition away from the "Osprey" in 2020. Fans can vote for a… https://t.co/czwu2A1T3Q,
- Old Friend Alert https://t.co/vZFngGVaFF,
- Winning defensive MVP of the NFL Pro Bowl is something that should not actually be possible,
- Bill Swancutt (2005 draft, Lions) and Alex Brink (2008 draft, Texans). Swancutt was a DE and TE that I had to cover… https://t.co/7PvKgIVkD3,
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