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Christopher Hanewinckel-US PRESS It’s the most wonderful non-event of the year The Superb Owl has flown away, marking the end of the NFL season, and freeing up space and attention for baseball once more. One of the joys of living in Arizona, is that our baseball season gets an extra month on each end, between spring training and the Arizona Fall League, and the former … [Read more...] about Arizona Diamondbacks Pitchers and Catchers Report

Alek Thomas. | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Starting in 2024, Baseball Savant added a bat tracking leaderboard. For this season’s Diamondbacks, let’s look at two of the many statistics on that leaderboard. Percentage of swings that are squared up. Squared up means the ball hit the bats sweet spot. That is determined by comparing exit velocity with bat speed and … [Read more...] about Squared Up & Blasted Balls

Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Pitchers and catchers report tomorrow! Diamondbacks News Diamondbacks roster projection: Spring training begins by Alex Weiner [Arizona Sports] Pitchers and catchers report on Wednesday, and last year the D-backs made two notable moves after camp began. A week into spring training, they signed veteran outfielder Randal … [Read more...] about SnakeBytes 2/11: Spring Training Eve

Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images This isnt a true Snake Bytes. I was going to do one yesterday morning, but procrastinated and was reminded about it earlier. It is so late Monday that I would be stepping on AZfan’s SBs tomorrow. I am just bored, so here is a Monday Memes style Bytes... … [Read more...] about Snake Bytes 2/10: Superb Owl

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Let’s look at the rest of the spring pitchers outside the 40-man roster Listher Sosa (79) You might be forgiven for having missed the news of Sosa’s arrival on the Diamondbacks. It happened late in spring of 2022, when we traded Josh Van Meter - remember him? - to the Pirates for Sosa. Nobody paid much attention. Three years later, … [Read more...] about Arizona Diamondbacks 2025 Non-Roster Invitees, Part 2