I promise, I didn’t plan to put in writing concerning the 2019 Diamondbacks in back-to-back editions of this column. That 12 months was Ketel Marte’s breakout season, and in addition the 12 months they traded Zack Greinke to the Astros on the commerce deadline, however in any other case, they had been a principally forgettable group. Not dangerous by any means — Arizona completed 85-77, second within the NL West — however nowhere close to notable sufficient to be remembered in consecutive weeks of the identical column six years later.
And but, isn’t that the fantastic thing about this mailbag? That is the house so that you can ask any and all baseball questions that pop into your head, irrespective of how foolish or irrelevant they could be. And so far as we’re involved right here, the 2019 Diamondbacks would possibly simply be one in every of baseball’s extra related irrelevant groups. I discussed them final week as a result of they had been the group that Gerardo Parra was pitching towards on August 3 when he turned the third participant ever to permit 5 or extra runs with out recording an out in his solely profession pitching look.
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