Florida Marlins

By Jim McLennan 2009 Arizona errorsPosErr.NL Av.RankC98=5th1B1510=2nd2B1113=10th3B27193rdSS16189thLF963rdCF55=5thRF1351stP19132nd While Mark Reynolds may have made more individual errors than anyone else, third-base was not an especially problematic positions for us. First-base, right...

By Jim McLennan Dan Haren goes fishing for Marlins, July 10 vs. FLA The best-pitched game of the season by a Diamondback, as measured by Game Score, was Dan Haren's complete-game shutout of Florida just before the All-Star break [Haren had #2 and #3 on the list too]. It was also tied for the eighth-best Game S...

By Jim McLennan Arizona fans will have nightmares about the eighth inning for most of the winter. The team allowed 120 runs there, 15 more than the next worst frame. Two particularly savage meltdowns come to mind. On June 2nd in Los Angeles, seven stellar innings of one-run ball by Dan Haren and a 5-1 lead were...

By Jim McLennan Not all teams in a division are created equal. In the NL East, for example, the Mets and Phillies each spent more - in the former case, over $50m more! - than their rivals, the Nationals and Marlins, combined. As a result, the Mets were up against four teams whose average salary bill was $73.8m - b...

By Jim McLennan The 1999 Diamondbacks are certainly the most under-rated squad in franchise history, and in many ways were the best ever to pull on the jersey - they won eight more games in the regular season than our World Series team, and it was a surprise when they lost in four to the Mets. Since then, the on...

By Azreous We snuck over the 2.1 million mark, which was the third-lowest total in franchise history. Only 2005 and 2006 were worse. Even the abysmal 2004 team pulled in 400,000 more fans. Which team did Arizona have the best winning percentage against? Padres Mets Pirates Marlins

By Jim McLennan Mets Ideally, a team would want to be in the upper-left hand quadrant. Those are teams that didn't spend much money, and still had fairly successful seasons. The poster-child for this would be the Marlins, whose total payroll was less than $37m, but who still were in the wild-card race until...

By Jim McLennan We definitely have Brandon Webb to thank, for keeping Arizona in the game long enough for the bats to awaken. The Marlins seemed to threaten almost constantly early on, having men in scoring position with no outs in both the second and third innings, and one out in the third. However, our ace b...

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...

By Jim McLennan Haren: 8 out of 9 Webb: 8 out of 9 Owings: 7 out of 9 Johnson: 2 out of 7 Gonzalez: 1 out of 6 Scherzer/Davis: 2 out of 5 Click to enlarge, in new window] Master of his domain: Orlando Hudson, +21.8% God-emperor of suck: Justin Upton, -28.1% Dishonorable mention: Chris Young, -26.0%

By Jim McLennan Keith Glab, Scout.com - "Once we learned the final names involved in the eight-player deal between Oakland and the Arizona Diamondbacks, we became aghast... On December 14th, Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane showed why he's still the top dog when it comes to making trades... It doesn't take a ps...