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Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Hard to imagine a more emphatic statement! Pavin Smith has never been the recipient of fan adulation. There’s a sense that he has underperformed what might be expected of a player who was taken with the seventh overall pick in the 2017 draft, and received a signing bonus of more than five million dollars. It … [Read more...] about 2024 SnakePit Awards: Performance of the Year – Pavin Smith goes off

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Did 2023’s workhorse performance cost the Diamondbacks in 2024? 2024 overview Rating: 6.67 MLB Stats: 13 G, 73.2 IP, 4.03 ERA, 4.25 FIP, 1.167 WHIP, 1.0 bWAR Date of birth: October 14, 1988 (age 35 season) Earnings: $8,500,000 2025 status: Team option for $7,000,000 exercised for final season of control Merrill Kelly began … [Read more...] about 2024 Diamondbacks player Reviews : #22, Merrill Kelly

Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images Will he go in? If so, wearing which cap? This was triggered by samath’s comment, on Steak85’s tongue-somewhat-in-cheek article about “Getting the band back together.” In it, samath suggested that a point in favour of getting Paul Goldschmidt back in Sedona Red was “it would increase the chances that he goes into the Hall as a Diamondback … [Read more...] about Paul Goldschmidt and the Hall of Fame

Pavin Smith in 3-homer game. | Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images His batting power was impressive. Overview Rating: 6.65 2024 stats: 60 G, 9 HRs in 158 PAs, .270/ .348/ .547 (145 OPS+), +0.6 bWAR (offense +1.0 bWAR, defense negative 0.7 bWAR) Date of birth: February 6, 1996 (28 years old) 2024 earnings: Pre-Arb. His adjusted salary was $508,968 per Spotrac. 2025 status: … [Read more...] about 2024 Diamondbacks Reviews #23: Pavin Smith