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2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Reviews #7 Josh Naylor
Overview 2025 Review When the 2024 season came to a close, so did Christian Walker’s tenure as an all-star caliber first baseman. To counter this loss, Mike Hazen got aggressive. Before Christmas even rolled around, Hazen made a trade with the Cleveland Guardians. Mike Hazen sent pitching prospect, Slade Cecconi and his six years of […]
Arizona Diamondbacks: January confidence poll
December results There hadn’t been a lot of activity from the D-backs, to sway the numbers in last month’s poll. We’d signed James McCann, but that had basically been it, bar some winnowing out of the chaff from the roster, and various minor-league movies. Unsurprisingly, this did not translate into a great deal of variation […]
2025 Diamondbacks Player Reviews #8: Gabriel Moreno
Overview 2025 Review. An Injury. In June, he suffered a hairline fracture of his right index finger. He missed over two months of playing time. He overcame that injury. Batting. Moreno was an outstanding batter (OPS+ of 117). Notable improvements compared to the previous season follow. The noted statistics are also predictive of continued excellent […]
2025 SnakePit Awards: Unsung Hero nominations
And then there were five, a veritable “Who’s he?” of this year’s Diamondbacks – both on and off the field. Here’s a little about each of them, and a poll [browser and ad-blocker depending, perhaps!] Results will be tallied at some point on Friday, with the result announced on Saturday for those too lazy to […]
2025 Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #9 Blaze Alexander
Background Blaze Alexander was drafted by the Diamondbacks in the 2018 draft with the 339th overall pick, out of IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Blaze’s biggest setback in his minor league career was the pandemic, but he’d work his way up through the Diamondbacks farm system and reach AAA by 2022. He’d then spend the […]
2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #10 James McCann
Overview 2025 Review James McCann joined the Diamondbacks later in the seasons, on June 25th. Gabi Moreno was out with a broken finger, and a battery of Herrera and ADC was a terrifying proposition. On the other hand, McCann had just left the Braves after originally signing with them on a minor league deal but […]
Jeremy Bleich
What do the Diamondbacks currently look for in pitcher acquisitions? Mike Hazen talked about his acquisition of Michael Soroka. What resonated with me, although it’s far from everything he said, is that there were five things that carried weight. Although some people might see it differently, here are the five things they looked for: How […]
SnakeBytes 12/30: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
Diamondbacks News D-backs have faith Pfaadt will find his groove in ‘26 by Steve Gilbert [DBacks.com] “Brandon falls very much in the group of players that we have that we feel like getting some certainty around what the future is going to look like. That is very important for us, in terms of building a […]
2025 Diamondbacks Player Reviews #11 Andrew Saalfrank
Overview An Expectation for 2025. When people do something that’s deemed nearly impossible, it fills me with happiness and joy. Was it nearly impossible that Andrew Saalfrank would play in the Majors in 2025? “I’m not betting on him to make a single appearance with the Diamondbacks in 2025.” — 1Azfan1, Player Review for 2024 A […]
Arizona Diamondbacks news, 12/29: New Year’s Eve^3
Team news [SI] Diamondbacks 2026 Projections Reveal Some Surprises – The bullpen is projected to get positive contributions from many of the young relievers acquired in trade at the 2025 trade deadline, as well as previous internal options. Below table is sorted by projected innings pitched. The 4.01 projected ERA would represent an incredible improvement […]
Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #12 Shelby Miller
Overview 2025 Review In some ways, I find the story of Shelby Miller to be one of the more interesting in the Diamondbacks 2025 season. I’m not sure I remember a non-roster invitee getting as negative a reaction as Miller did when his arrival was announced, but then again, very few NRIs have the kind […]
2025 SnakePit Awards: Unsung Hero nominations open
I always enjoy this category. Not least because it’s an easy one, since I don’t have to come up with a list of initial nominations. Indeed, it’s possible I may have copied the entire post wholesale from last year’s version. I’ll never tell. But it’s all on you, folks! As tradition has it, I’m not […]
2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #13 Justin Martinez
Overview Rating: 6.73 2025 stats: Justin Martinez appeared in 17 games and had a total of 15.1 IP. He walked 12 and struck out 22 batters and gave up one home run. He had a record of 1-2 with an ERA of 4.11. His FIP was 4.05, ERA+ 107 and WHIP 1.239. He had 5 saves and […]
2025 SnakePit Awards: Rookie of the Year – Andrew Saalfrank
I left the poll up for as long as I could, hoping that we would be able to reach a decisive winner, but the margin never seemed to be more than a couple of votes. For a while, the score was tied, which would have led to a tie-breaking vote from the executive officer in […]
Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #14 Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
Overview 2025 Review The ability to be goofy has to be one of my favorite dynamics in baseball. It differentiates the sport from so many others where player personalities are limited to postgame interviews, offseason media appearances, and the player’s private social media. For the D-Backs, Lourdes Gurriel Jr has been the unquestioned team goofball […]
Is Alex Bregman “a done deal” for the Arizona Diamondbacks?
To be honest, I had not been paying particular attention to the “OMG! ALEX BREGMAN TO THE D-BACKS!!!” reports doing the rounds. It seemed like too much of a budgetary stretch, for a team frequently reported to be looking to reduce payroll. Even in the wake of a Ketel Marte trade, there simply did not […]
2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Reviews #15 Jalen Beeks
Overview 2025 Review Mike Hazen has developed himself a reputation for making his impact moves at some rather unexpected moments. Jalen Beeks is no exception. Despite having solid results for four of the previous five seasons, Beeks looked first to the Houston Astros on a minor league deal for the 2025 season. Less than two […]
Snake Bytes 12/25: Merry Christmas!
and Happy Holidays Team News D-backs Reliever Showed Potential in Lone Opportunity https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/d-backs-reliever-showed-potential-montes-de-oca Former Diamondbacks Outfielder Signs with Pirateshttps://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbacks-news/former-diamondbacks-outfielder-signs-pirates-fletcher-mena Merrill Kelly Gave Honest Statement About Being Traded to Rangers https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/arizona-diamondbac...
2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Reviews #16 A.J. Puk
Overview 2025 Review When the Diamondbacks entered the 2025 season, they did so with a solid rotation headed by Corbin Burnes and Zac Gallen. Likewise, the bullpen looked stacked, with Justin Martinez, Ryan Thompson, and A.J. Puk helping to solidify the back end of games. Ryan Thompson had already established himself as a quality set-up […]
2025 SnakePit Awards: Rookie of the Year nominations
Hey, we actually got some nominations in this category! Only three, but that’s okay, as it gives me leeway to throw a couple of additional choices into the mix. It’ll be interesting to see how these go: there are a couple of candidates who would appear to be hot favorites, but as we’ll see, the […]
2025 Diamondbacks Reviews: #17 Corbin Burnes
Overview Voting overview 2025 review Corbin Burnes’ addition to the Diamondbacks organization was one of the bigger shockers of the offseason. After making a significant investment in one of the top starting pitchers in the 2023-24 offseason and failing miserably (He Who Shall Not Be Named), coupled with already having six viable starters for only […]
Christmas & Baseball
Inspiration. I very much enjoyed this SB Nation Christmas article, which is well worth reading. Is there a movie with Santa Claus playing baseball? I did not find it. If you are the go-to expert on Santa Claus movies, please feel free to include the title in the comments section. Instructions on how to view […]
SnakeBytes 12/23: Christmas Eve Eve
Diamondbacks News D-backs giving Lawlar chance to grow defensively by Steve Gilbert [DBacks.com] The organization sees the defensive struggles as a blip rather than something they are overly concerned about. “We had been bouncing him all over the field in Triple-A,” GM Mike Hazen said. “I don’t think that’s ever conducive from a defensive standpoint. […]
2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Review: #18 Torey Lovullo
Rating: 6.00 Date of birth: July 25, 1965 2025 stats: 80-82 2025 salary: A reported $5 million 2026 status: Possibly the hottest seat in the Majors Torey Lovullo is the longest tenured manager in Diamondbacks history, and it isn’t even close. His nine seasons are nearly double that of the next closest, Bob Melvin, and then after that […]
Arizona Diamondbacks News, 12/22: Marte or NOT Marte, that is the question
Team news [Heavy] Trade For First Baseman Takes Boston Out Of Marte Sweepstakes – The Boston Red Sox traded for Cardinals’ first baseman Willson Contreras and cash Sunday night in exchange for pitcher Hunter Dobbins and minor league arms, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan. It was reported that Contreras was one of the Red Sox’s top […]
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