Arizona Diamondbacks

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 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...

By Jim McLennan Here's an interesting thought as a replacement. Curt Schilling? He has expressed a lot of interest in potentially coming back to Arizona for a Clemens-like partial season. He said during an interview on KTAR [MP3, about nine minutes in] on November 4 that, "Arizona is absolutely one of tho...

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...

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...

Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks are still leading the woeful NL West while their aces are stumbling and outfielders can’t find fly balls in the Metrodome, the Cardinals are on the Cubs’ heels despite injuries to Albert Pujols and Chris Carpenter and the supposedly “toxic” Mets are at .500 an...

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.)

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 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 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...

There is an uncommon spirit burning in Micah Owings that his teammates and coaches could sense upon first laying eyes on the Diamondbacks rookie pitcher.

The Diamondbacks trade Scott Hairston to San Diego and recall Carlos Quentin from Tucson.

Tony Clark hit a gamewinning home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to rescue the Diamondbacks in an 87 win.

Conor Jacksons single in the bottom of the 10th inning drove home Chris Young and made 43 winners of the donowrong Diamondbacks, who beat the Atlanta Braves.

Eric Byrnes hit a threerun, ninthinning home run Thursday night and the Diamondbacks got a 74 victory.

The bullpen held off the Marlins in Thursdays game, allowing the Diamondbacks to climb back into it and win.

Chris Snyder walked into the Diamondbacks clubhouse Monday and checked out the lineup card.

The Diamondbacks Stephen Drew from drilled what proved to be the gamewinning home run in the eighth inning of a 32 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

After Thursdays 101 thrashing in front of 41,156 at Miller Park, the Brewers look to be lightyears beyond the Diamondbacks.

After talks about a contract extension between Eric Byrnes and the Diamondbacks broke off, the outfielder sounded resigned to the fact that he wont be in Arizona beyond this season.

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Errors help the Orioles dump the Diamondbacks on Friday night.

Starting pitching has carried the Diamondbacks; now it might be time for the hitting to take a turn.

Rested or not, Eric Byrnes sparked the Diamondbacks, who appear to be on another hot streak having won for the fifth time in six games after having lost six of seven.

Jason Hammel came on in emergency relief and led the Devil Rays to a 102 drubbing of the Diamondbacks.

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A fiverun eighth inning lifts the Diamondbacks over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.

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The Diamondbacks respond to a meeting with manager Bob Melvin, beating the Mets 31 to end two skids. b Box Callaspo responds Phillies Garcia hurts leg

The good news for the Diamondbacks The Mets, who beat the DBacks 62 on Saturday, leave after Sundays game.

The Diamondbacks pound out a seasonhigh 17 hits in a 91 win over the Dodgers.

The Diamondbacks bats made a little more noise Thursday night in a 74 victory over the San Diego Padres before a recordlow crowd of 16,792 at Chase Field.

The ball kept carrying toward the stands and Diamondbacks third baseman Chad Tracy kept drifting toward the railing until he ran out of room.

The Diamondbacks made two moves Friday recalling pitchers Dana Eveland and Mike Schultz from TripleA Tucson and they probably will have to make another before Sunday.

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...

Russ Ortiz hasnt been dominant for the Giants, but the righthander certainly appears to be throwing better than he did during his oneplus season stint with the Diamondbacks.

According to handwriting expert Mark Hopper, Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder would make a great Marine, pitcher Brandon Webb would be a good manager and second baseman Orlando Hudson just needs to relax.

Luis Gonzalez, the face of the franchise for eight seasons until the Diamondbacks declined to resign him last season, will be in the starting lineup at Chase Field tonight for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Decisions are looming for the Diamondbacks, and some of them will be affected by the goingson in TripleA Tucsons home opener tonight.

Orlando Hudson crushed his second home run of the season with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning Monday night to lead the Diamondbacks to a thrilling, 32 comefrombehind victory against the Cincinnati Reds.

A stiff neck will keep Brandon Webb from making his scheduled start on Saturday, but the Diamondbacks ace is hopeful hell miss only one turn in the rotation.