Let’s face it: The last six months have been an unmitigated disaster for your beloved baseball franchise. No National League West team has ever finished as far out of first place as the 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks. They won fewer than half as many games as the division-winning San Francisco Giants, a team they were projected to hang with at the...

Since June 1, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt has been arguably the best position player in baseball not named Bryce Harper or Juan Soto. In that span, Goldy is slashing .326/.398/.592 with 25 homers, 70 RBI and a 165 wRC+. His 4.8 fWAR trail only the aforementioned Harper and Soto. Goldy, at 34 years old, has found it...

It would be a stretch to call the Arizona Diamondbacks “good” over the last decade. But there’s one thing no team in baseball has been better at in that span: defense. In fact, it’s not even close. From 2010 through 2019, the Arizona Diamondbacks posted 445 defensive runs saved (DRS). This suggests that, in the 2010s, the D-backs’ defense prevented...

The Arizona Diamondbacks have a lot of questions to answer this offseason, but one of the first is whether or not to bring back Manager Torey Lovullo. Lovullo has managed 692 regular season games with the D-backs since taking the job prior to the 2017 season. Only Kirk Gibson has managed more games in franchise history at 729. Over Lovullo’s...

On Saturday night, nearly 20,000 fans gathered at Chase Field to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Diamondbacks World Series run. With the new norm of crowds below 10,000 amid a dreadful on-field product and the reawakened pandemic, it felt like a sellout. Fans came decked out in purple and teal to be taken back to the most iconic...