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Tag: Arizona Diamondbacks

Episode 272 – 2022 NL West Preview

April 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

In our penultimate preview we cover the NL West, joined by: Zach Buchanan of The Athletic on the Diamondbacks Thomas Harding of MLB.com on the Rockies Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic on The Dodgers A Mystery Padres Guest Susan Slusser

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30 BOLDish predictions: One for each MLB team

April 7, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

AL WEST Houston Astros Jeremy Pena debuts for the Astros and creates an unstoppable middle-infield pairing with Jose Altuve. Both players hit over .300, and there’s not a single banged trashcan to be heard. Los Angeles Angels Injuries disrupt Mike

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Brent Strom could prove to be DBacks most valuable 2022 addition

March 24, 2022 Matthew O'Brien Baseball, Team Contributors

Brent Strom has been considered a pitching guru by some of the best pitchers in the game over the last eight seasons. Over that period, he was the Houston Astros pitching coach where he would inherit a pitching staff with

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Ryne Nelson has his eyes firmly set on MLB future

March 12, 2022 Matthew O'Brien Baseball, Team Contributors

Nelson was drafted by the D’Backs in the 2nd round of the 2019 amateur draft. The 6-foot-3, 184 lbs pitcher attended the University of Oregon where he was a hard throwing righty out of the pen for much of his

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Paul Goldschmidt: Diamondbacks lost more than an All-star player

February 18, 2022 Matthew O'Brien Baseball, Team Contributors

Paul Goldschmidt was the talismanic first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks who starred for the major league team from 2011 until the conclusion of the 2018 season. To say that he was the Diamondbacks best player over that period would

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Arizona Diamondbacks – Prospects to Watch in 2022

December 9, 2021 Matthew O'Brien Baseball, Team Contributors

Hey, we have a Dbacks contributor now! Welcome Matt O’Brien… With 2021 firmly in the rear-view mirror and with the return of a full minor league season after a Covid induced hiatus, I thought now would be a good time

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Three Strikes – How I Fell in Love with Baseball

April 8, 2021 Guest Contributor Baseball, Guest writer

Strike 1 ‘Nothing Rhymes with Orange’ My journey with baseball began back in 2014. I was idling away the days in the lead up to starting my first term of university, it was mid-September and unusually hot outside. Having burnt

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Episode 215 – 2021 NL West Preview

March 10, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

In the second of our 2021 previews we turn to the NL West. Again, the guys are joined by a clutch of experts to keep us on the straight and narrow, including: – The Athletic’s Zach Buchanan on the Diamondbacks–

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Can the Diamondbacks take positives from a dour 2020 season?

November 10, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Team Contributors

Matthew O’Brien is a guest writer for the website, making his debut today! If 2020 was represented through a baseball season look no further than that of the 2020 Arizona Diamondbacks. Entering the season with hopes of a postseason appearance

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Arizona Diamondbacks 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 4, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion, Previews

What happened in 2019? The glass-half-full view is that second-place behind the Dodgers was probably the best that the Diamondbacks could have hoped for, and they achieved it with a +70 run differential. The less optimistic view is that 21

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