What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are the 2012 World Series champions! A year after their brilliant “worst to first” campaign, the D-Backs proved they are here to stay after their thrilling victory over the Texas Rangers (their third consecutive World Series defeat). Arizona pulled it off through a series of brilliant moves made by the front office years ago, that at the time were labeled “bad moves”.
It started with Josh Byrnes sending away pitching sensation Max Scherzer and reliever Daniel Schlereth for starter Edwin Jackson and prospect Ian Kennedy. The Yankees had all but given up on Kennedy who was once a promising top prospect and the D-Backs fans were left speechless in an overwhelmingly negative assessment of such a trade. Byrnes was eventually fired as the Arizona GM midway through ...
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PLAYERS:
Josh Byrnes,
Max Scherzer,
Daniel Schlereth,
Ian Kennedy,
Jerry Dipoto,
Daniel Hudson,
Danny Haren,
Joe Saunders,
Tyler Skaggs,
Kevin Towers,
Kirk Gibson,
Brad Ziegler,
Trevor Cahill,
Craig Breslow,
JJ Putz,
Jason Kubel,
Paul Goldschmidt,
Trevor Bauer,
Justin Upton,
Miguel Montero,
Chris Young,
Stephen Drew,
Aaron Hill
TEAMS: Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels
TEAMS: Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels
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