The Hank Aaron Award goes to the most outstanding offensive performer in each league, every year. “Outstanding offensive performer.”
Sounds a lot like Paul Goldschmidt, doesn’t it?
Apparently, Major League Baseball agrees. Bud Selig announced the winners of the award yesterday before Game 4 of the World Series, conferring the award on Goldy in the NL and Miguel Cabrera in …
Continue Reading →On Tuesday, we released the beginning of our Top 30 Prospects series with numbers 21-30. If you missed it, check it out as there are some names there that have a chance to really move up in 2014. Today we move on to prospects 11-20, where we start to see some guys with real star power. There’s a first-rounder …
Continue Reading →At ESPN, Dan Szymborski officially kicked off the trade speculation season with a piece on possible fits for David Price, setting the blogosphere aflame with responses to each package floated by Dan.
I pretty much agree with everything that AZ Snake Pit’s Jim McLennan wrote, so feel free to go check that out now, if you haven’t already …
Continue Reading →It’s prospect season now that the playoffs are nearly over and we’re almost into the winter. Here are the Diamondbacks’ Top 30 prospects counted down from #30 all the way to #1. The system itself is in decent shape and probably ranks somewhere near the middle of the majors. It’s a top-heavy with some notable names inside the top ten …
Continue Reading →After firing pitching coach Charles Nagy and first-year first base coach Steve Sax, the D-backs will also now look for a hitting coach, after Don Baylor left to work with the Angels. That’s a lot of turnover for a staff retaining its manager, especially if Matt Williams leaves for a post with the Nationals.
Nick Piecoro reported …
Continue Reading →In the recent roster breakdown series, I didn’t discuss the catcher position, in part because there’s little doubt about who will start next year. There’s every reason to expect that Miguel Montero will return to form next year, and even if he didn’t, he’s unlikely to be so bad that the team would think about punting his significant contract …
Continue Reading →There’s a lot to consider when ranking prospects. To do it properly, it takes an ability to analyze the present, take into account the past and project the future. It’s the last of these three things that is the finest art and is easily the most difficult to nail down. It’s not impossible to get a feeling for the future, …
Continue Reading →I should start by saying that my first baseball love is the Seattle Mariners. Hailing from the Northwest, this is the only professional baseball we have back home and it’s one of the very few pro franchises in a vast region. And in case you didn’t notice, the team isn’t very good and hasn’t been very good for quite some …
Continue Reading →League: Pacific Coast League (Triple-A)
Record: 60-84 (15th out of 16 teams in the Pacific Coast League)
Runs Scored: 757 (5th of 16 teams)
Runs Allowed: 793 (14th of 16 teams)
Recap: in case you missed my earlier write-up of the Visalia Rawhide and the park effects of playing in …
Continue Reading →By now you’ve likely heard about Kevin Towers embarrassing himself with senseless comments over the lack of ‘grit’ from his team, specifically regarding hit by pitches on opposing batters. If you haven’t heard about this, you can read his thoughts here. In short, he thinks that it should be ‘eye for an eye’ on the diamond and there should …
Continue Reading →League: Southern League (Double-A)
Record: 79-60 (1st out of 10 teams in the Southern League)
Runs Scored: 563 (4th of 10 teams)
Runs Allowed: 478 (1st of 10 teams)
Recap: it was nearly a three-peat in Alabama as the BayBears fell one win short of the Southern League crown. Down …
Continue Reading →A week after the .500 end to the Arizona season, the MLB Division Series are in full swing. Consequently, there isn’t too much to report on what’s been written on the D-backs in the last week.
We will still be publishing regularly in the offseason, although we may draw back a bit from 5 posts a week. Check out the …
Continue Reading →Like most teams, Arizona is likely to have more turnover in the bullpen than in any other portion of the roster. The much-maligned relief crew actually came on pretty strong in the second half of the season, but we can expect Kevin Towers to make some changes — even if that’s just because there are more candidates on the current …
Continue Reading →As a staff, Diamondbacks pitchers ranked 21st among 30 teams in WAR (11.0) and 17th in ERA (3.92). D-backs starters came in 22nd in WAR (8.8) and 19th in ERA (4.13). As with most teams, the sample was big enough that there was a pretty close match between ERA and FIP (4.15).
If the expected major league starters are healthy …
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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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- Every once in a while you get a beer that's just a little off... Usually happens to me at airports.,
- If Pollock doesn’t sign with a team that wears red uniforms I’m going to be really disappointed. Working theory: Se… https://t.co/zHn9DqzEiD,
- The work here by @Britt_Ghiroli is splendid https://t.co/c8tSq0vw3T,
RT @TheAthleticAZ: Plenty of #Dbacks fans gave it some time - and they still don't like the idea. The "why" from @ZHBuchanan
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