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Your 2010 Diamondbacks: The First Projections
October 21, 2009 by
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Eric Byrnes and Chris Young - will they float, or will they sink?
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After a crappy season like the one just endured by Arizona fans, it's...
Long weekend costs Mark Reynolds millions
October 20, 2009 by
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Long weekend costs Mark Reynolds millions
The Boston Globe reports that Mark Reynolds missed being a 'super two' by three days of service time. This is important, because it means he does not qualify for arbitration this winter - if he had, it would likely have cost the...
The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part IV: The Eighth-inning Retch
October 20, 2009 by
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Jon Rauch waits for the bases to clear after giving up a a three run homer to Travis Ishikawa during the eighth on August 25 in San Francisco. Or "business as usual," as we called the...
Johjima leaves Seattle for Japan
October 19, 2009 by
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Johjima leaves Seattle for Japan
Seattle Mariners Catcher Kenji Johjima has decided to forgo the last two years and $16M of his contract with the Mariners to return to Japan. Surely, the Mariners are pleased with this news, as Johjima had struggled mightily in 2009 and it allows...
Total BS Alert: "The New York Yankees have the best fans of any team in the world, not just MLB"
October 19, 2009 by
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Total BS Alert: "The New York Yankees have the best fans of any team in the world, not just MLB"
I stumbled across this article this morning, and I can't think of the last time a piece.... pissed-me off quite as badly. Claims Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News...
The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part III: Starting Pitching
October 18, 2009 by
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by Matt York - AP
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or...
This Week in AZ Baseball: Brandon Webb option talk, TV ratings drop - and haircuts?
October 17, 2009 by
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by Rick Scuteri - AP
Brandon Webb, Cy Young winner - but more importantly, is he well-groomed?
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The Angels and Yankees are under way in Game Two of the ALCS, the...
The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part II: Offense
October 16, 2009 by
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by Gus Ruelas - AP
A photo of that near-mythical beast - a D-back trying to bunt for a hit. File this one of Upton alongside Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
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Thus...
Eric Byrnes has meeting on future with D-backs
October 16, 2009 by
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Eric Byrnes has meeting on future with D-backs
"D-backs general manager Josh Byrnes and manager A.J. Hinch had breakfast with Eric Byrnes on Wednesday. On the menu was the outfielder's future in Arizona. "We just wanted to sit down and lay out what's in front...
Submit nominations for the 2009 'Pitties
October 15, 2009 by
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IIFor the fourth year, we'll be running our end of season awards here at the SnakePit, allowing you to vote on which players deserve recognition for their performances in the 2009 campaign. You can find the list of the previous winners here. I'm now looking for nominees...
Re-Evaluating The Free Agent Class
October 14, 2009 by
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Re-Evaluating The Free Agent Class
"Let's accept this free agent class for what it is - full of interesting players with a real chance to outplay the contracts they receive... Rich Harden can be one of the best pitchers in baseball when he's on the mound and throwing...
Value for money, Part III: Divisional Disparities
October 14, 2009 by
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Looking at salaries in general, the gap between the NL and AL continues to increase. The average American League team spent $93.3m, the National League $84.4m - five years ago, the same figures were $75.5m and $70.9m. However, almost all of the current gap is due to the Yankees...
Jackson 'pretty much 100 percent'
October 12, 2009 by
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Jackson 'pretty much 100 percent'
He's back from the instructional league in Tucson:
"Dude, I feel great. Health-wise, I feel great. I felt pretty much 100 percent... I didn't have any expectations about hits or how far I was hitting balls. But for me it...
The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part I: Overview
October 12, 2009 by
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They say a picture is worth a thousands words. Here's Rusty Ryal, summing up our 2009 in photo format. However, you're also getting the thousand words. And about 450 more..
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Value For money, Part II: The History of the Diamondbacks
October 10, 2009 by
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In the first part of the series, we explained the principal of Marginal Wins and Margin Cost, as a way of looking at team expenditure in relation to success. We found that the amount teams spent above the minimum possible, per victory above the minimum likely, ranged widely - from...
Diamondbacks get INF Tony Abreu from Dodgers
October 09, 2009 by
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Diamondbacks get INF Tony Abreu from Dodgers
Confirming one of the worst-kept secrets in baseball, the player to be named later in the trade with LA for Jon Garland is indeed second-baseman Tony Abreu. To make room on the 40-man roste ,we designated right-handed pitcher Bobby...
The Good, The Bad, and The Hopeful - A 2009 Retrospective, Part 2
October 09, 2009 by
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I was very fortunate last week in San Francisco to get a chance to talk with Fox Sports and Diamondbacks television broadcaster Daron Sutton. I emailed some of the same questions to KTAR radio broadcaster Greg Schulte and MLB.com beat writer Steve Gilbert. This is Part 2 of...
Diamondbacks' Link Dump
October 09, 2009 by
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MoCouple of interesting articles over the past couple of days, which deserve mention. The main one is an interview with Ken Kendrick by Nick Piecoro, which addresses a lot of issues pertinent to the off-season. It's definitely worth a read in full, but here are the highlights...
The Good, The Bad, and The Hopeful - A 2009 Retrospective, Part 1
October 07, 2009 by
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As fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks, 2009 was – overall – a miserable year. After a disappointing end to 2008, we all had hopes going into Opening Day that this year’s team would do better – it had to do better. The core of the team had returned, the...
2009 Diamondbacks Pop Quiz Answers/Results
October 07, 2009 by
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by Paul Beaty - AP
Don't worry, CY. About 26 percent of the quiz takers did pretty bad too.
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I know, you've been chomping at the bit to know what the answers...
Make Your Pitch: The AL playoff teams want YOU...
October 07, 2009 by
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by Morry Gash - AP
Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire celebrates with with someone you might recognize, after the Twins defeated the Tigers 6-5 in 12 innings today.
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Well, that was a phenomenal...
Vote for Clay Zavada!
October 06, 2009 by
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Vote for Clay Zavada!
The American Mustache Institute has nominated Clay Zavada for The 2009 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year. Obviously, he deserves to win.
Playoff Gameday Thread, #1
October 06, 2009 by
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Treating the Tigers-Twins game today as if it were a playoff game, even though it's technically a regular-season one - because the loser goes home for the winter. Not going to bother having a separate thread for each game, however: there'll be one active thread at any given...
The 2009 Diamondbacks: what the heck happened?
October 05, 2009 by
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Worst Case Scenario… Arizona battles with Colorado for third place. -- Baseball Digest Daily Team Preview, March 15, 2009
The above is a measure of how badly things went for our team this year: the "worst case scenario" suggested, would...
Coaches Chip Hale and Lorenzo Bundy not returning in 2010
October 05, 2009 by
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Coaches Chip Hale and Lorenzo Bundy not returning in 2010
"A.J. Hinch on Monday announced that third base coach Chip Hale and first base coach Lorenzo Bundy would not return to the Diamondbacks next season... Hinch also announced Monday that bench coach Kirk Gibson has signed...
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