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The Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday exercised their 2010 contract option for right-handed pitcher Brandon Webb. General manager Josh Byrnes says Webb has recovered well from an Aug. 4 arthroscopic surgery on his pitching shoulder. Byrnes cited Webb's significant contributions to the c...

By Jeff Summers The Arizona Diamondbacks now have five days from the final out last night to decide whether they will exercise the 2010 option on injured pitcher Brandon Webb. All the discussions are over and it now comes down to what level of risk the Diamondbacks are willing to accept on their staff ace.

By Tom Au Who were the low-budget World Series winners? The St. Louis Cardinals in 2006. The Florida Marlins in 2003. The Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001. All National League teams. The Chicago White Sox vs. the Chicago Cubs. The White Sox are a credible postseason threat, the Cubs aren't.

By Hayato Uwai According to MLBTradeRumors.com, the Seattle Mariners have claimed right-hander Yusmeiro Petit from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Moving to pitcher-friendly Safeco Field and the Mariners' tough defense helps, but he needs to improve his fly ball rate (and home run rate) and walk rate to b...

By Eric Stashin 1. Hanley Ramirez, Florida Marlins 2. Jose Reyes, New York Mets 3. Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies 5. Derek Jeter, New York Yankees 6. Alexei Ramirez, Chicago White Sox 8. Alcides Escobar, Milwaukee Brewers 9. Stephen Drew, Arizona Diamondbacks 13. Everth Cabrera, San Diego Padres

Some quotes from this morning's conference call with GM Josh Byrnes and pitcher Brandon Webb. The Diamondbacks this morning exercised the $8.5 million option on Webb for 2010. Byrnes:

Chad Tracy's $7 million option has been declined by the Arizona Diamondbacks, who will pay the infielder a $1 million buyout. The 29-year-old becomes eligible for free agency. Selected on the seventh round of 2001 amateur draft, Tracy batted .237 in 98 games this year with eight home runs an...

Another piece of news from this morning that relates to the Diamondbacks: The Dodgers declined RHP Jon Garland’s option for 2010, according to the LA Times’ Dylan Hernandez. That means Garland gets a $2.5 million buyout, and per the terms of the August 31 trade, the Diamondbacks are on the h...

Allen hasn’t done much this fall to inspire confidence he can be the everyday first baseman in 2010. He’s been selective at the plate -- drawing 19 walks to maintain a solid on-base -- and has played well defensively. But during his time in the majors and through 19 games in the fall league, he h...

By nancy The Arizona Fall League has announced the 2009 Rising Stars roster — kind of the all-stars of the all-stars. Three of the Pirates’ AFL participants have been named to the Rising Stars team: 1B Brandon Allen — Diamondbacks RHP Andrew Johnston — Rockies LHP Matt Reynolds — Rockies

By Jim McLennan Let's check one more. Bill James just released his Fielding Bible Awards for 2009, which combine votes from a number of sources. You won't be surprised to learn that no-one on the Diamondbacks won anything, but the following players were mentioned - note that these do not separate AL and NL,...

By Jim McLennan Not apparently. The average team saw 2,184 PAs dealt with by their relievers last season; Arizona saw fractionally less than that, at 2,122 - it clearly helped to have one of the most durable starters in the league, in Dan Haren, whose IP/start was 6.95, fourth-best in the league. Jon Garland...

Brandon Webb told the Diamondbacks on Wednesday the same thing he told reporters last month: He’s not interested in talking about anything beyond his 2010 option. Webb met with Diamondbacks General Manager Josh Byrnes for what Byrnes called a “check-in meeting.”

By Jim McLennan Almost two months left, but we appear to have a shoo-in winner of the "That is professional journalism?" category for 2009. Greg Hansen of the Arizona Daily Star demonstrates his lack of knowledge of...well, just about everything, in a sorry little piece which feels like he did nothing but co...

By Nick Piecoro Diamondbacks Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick sounded hopeful about his team in 2010, but acknowledges its shortcomings allow room for skepticism - even his own.

By Jim McLennan After it became apparent that this team was not going to be in the post-season hunt, several deals were made, sending useful pieces to other teams, generally in exchange for players who might help the team in 2010 or beyond. The players we lost would likely have helped the Diamondbacks to se...

SAN FRANCISCO  — Bengie Molina homered twice, Pablo Sandoval had four hits and the San Francisco Giants kept their slim wild-card hopes alive with an 8-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.

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Kevin Correia tossed a six-hitter for his first complete game and the San Diego Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-0 on Friday night.

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By Jim McLennan The bottom of the seventh saw Randy Johnson take the field, in his first relief appearance in our park since Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. He got a warm reaction from the crowd, perhaps sensing that it might be the last appearance ever in Phoenix for the 46-year old. He struck out the side, alb...

By Adam Bernacchio Late on Monday night and on the last day players can be traded and be eligible for the postseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation and bench by acquiring DH Jim Thome from the Chicago White Sox and RHP Jon Garland from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

By Jim McLennan I've already rambled on far longer than I wanted to about this topic, though I could certainly go on a great deal further. Just to finish, throw a few random baseball-themed ones that can't go without mention. AFLAC duck: yeah, mostly lame but the one with Yogi Berra has to be one of the best adv...

By Dave Burns 1st half D Back MVP: Justin Upton? Mark Reynolds? Josh Byrnes? Nope, Dan Haren takes the prize with his All-Star first half. Brandon Webb beats out Conor Jackson, Randy Johnson, Bob Melvin, Spring Training in Tucson, and Josh Byrnes’ bold preseason prediction “I think we can win the World...

By Adam Bernacchio 17. Arizona Diamondbacks – AJ Pollock, OF. MVP of the Cape Cod League. Good pick by the Diamondbacks. This pick was compensation for the Dodgers signing Orlando Hudson. 18. Florida Marlins – Chad James, LHP. Another young pitching stud for the Florida Marlins.

By Jabber Head The Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost yet another road game this afternoon, 4-3 in 10 innings to the San Diego Padres, now need to get used to the talk that manager Bob Melvin will be fired.   As long as we continue to see the  Diamondbacks in their current state, there is no other option.  It...

By David Martin The Diamondbacks scored their second run in the ninth as Chris Young was hit by a pitch from Ryan Speier, he then took second base on defensive indifference then moved to third on a ground ball by Conor Jackson and scored on another ground ball by Mark Reynolds.

By Dave Burns At Houston Burnsy was live in Tucson once again, and once again we were joined by a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks: starting pitcher Dan Haren.  Haren will be on the mound tomorrow in Goodyear, but will not be on the mound in the WBC this spring.  It’s not from a lack of offers, in fact he [...]

By Dave Burns Happy Carlos Quentin Horrible Trade Anniversary! Yes, December 3rd marks one year since the D-Backs traded Quentin to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Chris Carter. That one didn’t work out too well. Luckily the Dan Haren deal did. In fact, what a difference one year makes for the D-Back...

This year, things seem a lot more quiet for Byrnes, as the biggest player movement news in Arizona is on free-agent departures -- second baseman Orlando Hudson, slugger Adam Dunn and reliever Brandon Lyon all are on their way to greener pastures.

By Jim McLennan Brandon Webb: 22-7, 3.30 ERA, 1.196 WHIP 226.2 IP, 206 H, 65 BB, 183 K, 13 HR, .242/.302/.334 Randy Johnson: 11-10, 3.91 ERA, 1.239 WHIP 184 IP, 184 H, 44 BB, 179 K, 24 HR, .260/.306/.422 Doug Davis: 6-8, 4.32 ERA, 1.534 WHIP 146 IP, 160 H, 64 BB, 112 K, 13 HR, .282/.356/.419

Position-by-position, hosts Joe Aiello and Brandon Rosage strolled through the American League’s best players no one hears about. And, yes, there are a fair amount of Tampa Bay Rays on the list. For a peek at Brandon’s official AL All-Underrated Team, visit The Pitch’s 2008 All-Underrat...

The Rays emerged from the weekend bloodied with a 1.5 games lead over the Red Sox prior to the start of their bout in Fenway. The White Sox are now Carlos Quentin-less with only 2.5 games on the Twins. And the Diamondbacks got swept off the NL West lead by the Dodgers, despite some serious defensiv...

By Jim McLennan Anyone escape criticism? Jackson reached twice, on a hit and a walk, while there were two hits each for Drew, Montero and Ojeda. The last-named also got hit by a pitch, which gives him a share of the team lead, on eight. That's the same as Conor Jackson, who has about 270 more at-bats. Ojeda is act...

So obviously Hammock didn’t do much in limited action, but the other two have been quite effective, particularly relative to position. All together, Diamondbacks’ catchers are at .254/.347/.441 and their .788 OPS ranks fourth among National League teams.

By Jim McLennan The Diamondbacks pounded the Astros once again, using two grand slams, by Chris Young and Miguel Montero to cruise to another easy victory. It's the first time the team have scored 10+ runs in back-to-back road games for over eight years: the last time, coincidentally, was also in Houston...

By Jim McLennan Top 6th: Arizona: Chris Snyder homered to deep left, Clark scored Top 7th: Arizona: Chris Young homered to deep left Top 8th: Arizona: Chris Burke homered to deep left, Clark and Reynolds scored Honorable mentions: Webb, +15.0%; Clark, +11.3% God-emperor of suck: Chris Burke, -7.4%

Left-hander Daniel Schlereth has been promoted to Class A South Bend after three scoreless outings at Missoula, but General Manager Josh Byrnes said that Schlereth reaching the major leagues this season is a long shot. Byrnes said Schlereth could be a candidate for the Arizona Fall Leag...

By Jim McLennan You know things are pretty bad when the worst team in the National League blanks the Diamondbacks. The Nationals replied to our six-hit shutout from yesterday, with a three-hitter of their own on our offense - which has suddenly decided to entirely give up making any significant effort. I k...

By Jim McLennan On May 21st, Arizona faced the Marlins in Florida, and Ricky Nolasco allowed one run as his team beat the Diamondbacks 3-1 - the defeat dropped our lead over the Dodgers to three games. On June 27th, Arizona faced the Marlins in Florida, and Ricky Nolasco allowed one run as his team beat the Di...

Unlike last season, when the Diamondbacks prided themselves on their tenacity, it has felt in recent games like they have had the life sucked out of them whenever they’ve fallen behind. Bob Melvin acknowledged as much and said it was something he addressed with his team before Friday’s ga...

Will Carroll from Baseball Prospectus came across an item in a Diamondbacks notebook from last week suggesting that Randy Johnson’s problems had been mostly location-based. This was before Johnson threw seven shutout innings against the Tigers on Sunday.)

By Jim McLennan His final line was six hits, no walks and four strikeouts over the nine innings, with three runs allowed, two earned: up until the final stretch, this was probably his best outing of the year so far. Even so, it still runs Webb's record to 8-0, a stunning achievement given that no-one else in t...

May was not a good month to replenish your lineup with healthy players — namely in New York, where Alex Rodriguez and Phil Hughes joined the long Yankees DL. John Smoltz shared the same news about his immediate future via SMS and one of the game’s young star starters — Johnny Cueto — was humble...

By Jim McLennan In the face of such mediocrity, the offense would have been hard pushed to catch up. They did have their moments, getting the tying run on base in the fourth, and to the plate in the sixth, but the absence of Young in the leadoff spot was sorely felt. Eric Byrnes hit there instead, and went 1-for-...

By Jim McLennan The game was totally sold out. I don't think I've seen so many scalpers at a Spring Training game before. That was probably no surprise; we bought our tickets a couple of months back, and even at that point, the best seats remaining were in the last section bleachers, out by the AZ bullpen.

By Dave Burns Audio: John Byrnes - Thursday By the time the contracts that Diamondbacks GM Josh Byrnes and President Derrick Hall agreed to expire, my oldest child will be in college. Eight years. A deal that runs through 2015. In the world of professional sports – that’s practically a lifetime contract. E...

“The Pitch” hosts Joe Aiello and Brandon Rosage offer their perspective on the relatively unchanged lineup — with the exception of rotation-bolstering Dan Haren — and welcome perspective from AZ Snakepit’s Jim McLennan on the ability of Chris Young to power the offense again as a sopho...

By RJ Anderson     Diamondbacks deal Carlos Gonzales, Brett Anderson, Dana Eveland, Greg Smith, Chris Carter, and Aaron Cunningham to the Oakland Athletics for Dan Haren and Connor Robertson.     Diamondbacks deal Jose Valverde to the Houston Astros for Chris Burke, Chad Qualls, and Juan Gutierrez.

By Kellia Ramares ByrnesBlogger1 The recently-concluded 3-game series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Francisco Giants marked my seventh, eighth and ninth appearances at Ballpark by the Bay. That may be a lifetime record; it is certainly the most games I have attended...

The new Diamondbacks have pushed all the right buttons. They better not get careless when it comes to Eric Byrnes.

Arizona Diamondbacks organist Bobby Freeman launched his music career at age 16, playing piano in bars and restaurants. Soon he will open his own specialized eatery using his connections to Arizonas professional sports teams for a charitable tiein. Freeman, who played his 10th Diamond...