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Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images And the results are in... Back at the start of the season, as is SnakePit tradition, I handed out 1,500 SnakePit Dollars to anyone who wanted to place some bets on various prop bets on the D-backs team, manager and players. This year, as we discussed a couple of weeks ago, twenty of you entered the casino. Everyone else now … [Read more...] about Place Your Bets 2024: The Reckoningessnessing, Part Two

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images It’s official. #FreedChristianWalker Jordan Montgomery? Not so much... Team news [Arizona Sports] Report: Jordan Montgomery picks up player option with Diamondbacks - After the season, D-backs managing partner Ken Kendrick took blame for the “horrible decision” to sign Montgomery while appearing on Arizona Sports’ Burns & Gambo. … [Read more...] about Snake Bytes, 11/2: A farewell to free agents

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Keeping track of who’s who this winter The below roster is updated as of 11/1/24. Mobile users: The table is best viewed in landscape mode. 40-man roster transactions Listed in reverse chronological order. 11/01/24 RF Randal Grichuk declined option and elected free agency. 11/01/24 1B Christian Walker became unrestricted free … [Read more...] about Current D-backs 40-man roster

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The worst World Series is past, and now we turn towards the future.... October results Unsurprisingly, the failure for the team to make the post-season in consecutive years, for the first time since 2002, put a bit of a damper on fan confidence. I’d be hard pushed to call it a September collapse, considering the team went 13-13 in the … [Read more...] about Arizona Diamondbacks: November confidence poll

Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK How might a college football or basketball style playoff work in MLB? As we bask(?) in the crowning of the Dodger’s at the conclusion of the country’s least favored World Series and the ensuing offseason frenzy has just begun, I thought it might be fun to engage in the kind of hypotheticals that emerge in the immediate … [Read more...] about Thursday Tidbits: Championship Hypothetical