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Tag: Arizona Diamondbacks

Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?

August 3, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The

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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story

July 22, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even

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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

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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